Sentences with phrase «human population about»

The growth of the ecological footprint of a human population about to increase from 7B now to 9B in 2050 raises serious concerns about how to live both more efficiently and with less permanent impacts on the finite world.

The communication system is designed to seek and report real time information about disease outbreaks similar to how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) alerts the human population about diseases in people.

Does this imply an «ideal» human population about double that of today?

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You can ask these bots just about any homework - related question — math problems, questions about the population of a city, trivia, political curiosities — and they will happily oblige, using a cheerful tone that mimics human speech.

Facebook currently reaches about a third of the human population, and its goal is to connect the entire world — every single human being.

People going with the flow in those days were no more inclined to see a threat for humans in the fate of the dinosaur than to worry about the population explosion.

About 10 % of the human population — and about the same percent of numerous other species, as well — are naturally attracted to those of their same geAbout 10 % of the human population — and about the same percent of numerous other species, as well — are naturally attracted to those of their same geabout the same percent of numerous other species, as well — are naturally attracted to those of their same gender.

Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.

fred The Bible said that at a time when the world's human population was only in the millions, and disease generally prevented about 30 % of all children from reaching adulthood, so having large families was a way of hedging your bet.

Anytime I questioned the idea of God damning the majority of the human population to hell, I was told that this subject was not negotiable, that God picks and chooses who He wants to save and we can't do anything about it.

I've written about some of my experiences before — meeting a six - year - old forced to memorize and recite the Westminster Confession at dinnertime, nearly losing my faith over the notion that God created the majority of the human population for no other purpose but to suffer in hell for eternity, and encountering the famed «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirt in the midst of the so - called «Calvinist resurgence.»

Jenkins seems uncertain about the place of the human managerial activity needed to sustain the world's population.

And then, after only about 150 years of inbreeding, there is a big enough human population to have a civilization building a tower up towards God.

Cloning, anti-aging technology, human / mechanical intertwining, basic discoveries of science pushing god further into a gap, resource scarcity, will all make for some very interesting conversations about population control, pregnancy and abortion in the coming centuries.

Genetic evidence offers impressive support for human evolution and also strongly suggests that our ancestral population has never been smaller than about 10,000, «Mitochondrial Eve» and «Y - chromosome Adam» notwithstanding.

But one question, why did god only choose about a 25 % of the World's human population (and let's not even talk about other forms of life) to be given his message?

@ Simran: «why did god only choose about a 25 % of the World's human population (and let's not even talk about other forms of life) to be given his message?»

If by some way humanity were able to reduce the environmental impact of all its technologies by 10 per cent and there were no increase in per - person affluence, world population growth would return the collective impact of humans to the previous level in about five years.

As a consequence the human population grew from about 15 million before the invention of agriculture to 200 - 300 million, some 2000 years ago.

Do I care about the sorry excuse of the human population!?? Absolutely not!!!!! On second thought I was watching The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert!

Gerald Feinberg, a physicist, has calculated that at the current rate at which the population doubles — about every forty years — every atom in the estimated universe would be converted into human protoplasm in 5,600 years!

Fifthly, in the same vein, I would not make about 5 % of the human population gay, then punish them for being that way.

To meet different human needs, by 2050 it must simultaneously produce far more food for a population expected to reach about 9.6 billion, provide economic opportunities for the hundreds of millions of rural poor who depend on...

And with the human population of Kenya growing at about 3.5 % a year, the competition is going to get sharper and sharper.

Indeed, in February, SI posed three basic questions about the nature of 7 - footers (population size, factors responsible for height, and health risks) to the membership of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society.

All sensate human beings should care about the devastation of Syria and its civilian population.

All mainstream media rely on the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) regarding reports about attrocities being committed against the Syrian population in the ongoing conflict.

Asked about their support for the Dominican Republic's policy of denationalization of its native - born population of Haitian descent, Charles Rangel and Adriano Espaillat each spoke in defense last night of what is arguably the worst offense against human rights in the Americas today.

«The idea that each human genome contains information about the history of its ancestors» population size has been known theoretically, but we have never had the data or methods to pull out that information until now,» says John Novembre of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Given that the world population is still growing by about 200,000 people a day, and the ecological footprint of the human race already lies beyond the limits of sustainability, fewer European mega-consumers will be a blessing for the health of the planet — and fewer North Americans would...

Laidre's team looked at what is known about marine mammal populations that play a key role in Arctic ecosystems and human communities, focusing on polar bears, beluga whales, narwhals, bowhead whales, walrus, and six different seal species.

The University of Cambridge's Piers Mitchell, author of the 2015 book Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations, talks about the counterintuitive findings in his recent paper in the journal Parasitology titled «Human parasites in the Roman World: health consequences of conquering an empire.»

He adds: «Our findings are important for human genetics, archaeology and anthropology, and it will be interesting to see what similar approaches can tell us about the post glacial population dynamics in other parts of Europe and the rest of the world.»

Until recently, very little was known about the genetic relationship between modern humans of the Upper Paleolithic age (the period of time between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, also called the Late Stone age) and today's populations.

As conservationists work to recover endangered species populations, taking individuals that are maintained and protected under human care and reintroducing them into the wild, it becomes apparent that there is a great deal to learn about the science of species recovery.

When humans began settling on the island about 2,300 years ago, Madagascar's large vertebrate populations were the first casualties.

According to Rubin, the sequences provide the beginnings of a «DNA time machine» that will help update anthropological inferences about human and Neandertal populations.

It may one day be possible to address questions about how and why tool use arises in animal populations, and about the extent to which that kind of behaviour is — or isn't — uniquely human, he adds.

«But by engaging a diverse participant population and accumulating rich datasets, the CPMC research study is pursuing the type of insights that will help us learn more about sleep duration and, ultimately, improve human health.»

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

Results of research on the voles, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in Montreal last month, raises questions about the full effect of radiation on animal populations and on humans.

«Genomes from these more remote populations really can tell us a huge amount about human evolutionary history,» says Evelyn Jagoda, a Harvard University evolutionary genetics Ph.D. student and co-author of one of the studies.

in the May issue claims that biologists say the concept of race is biologically meaningless, presumably because «any large human population has about 85 percent as much genetic variation as the species as a whole.»

«Even if there were humans — and I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few of them — we're talking about a population of 10 million bison, which is bloody huge,» Cooper says.

Variation in pigmentation among human populations may reflect local adaptation to regional light environments, because dark skin is more photoprotective, whereas pale skin aids the production of vitamin D. Although genes associated with skin pigmentation have been identified in European populations, little is known about the genetic basis of skin pigmentation in Africans.

Despite the wide range of skin pigmentation in humans, little is known about its genetic basis in global populations.

His conclusion is supported by prior findings that about 30 percent of Malagasy have the same mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mother to child — far less diversity than in typical human populations, which share less than 2 percent.

The amount of variation within any human population, however, almost overwhelms those average differences: Just about any gene variant found among the Lapps or the Malays will eventually be found in Nigerians as well.

When the Ice Age ended, about 15,000 years ago, population began to climb again, setting the stage for a major turning point in human evolution.

Gough Island might have been largely uninhabited by humans, but 50 years later, residents of nearby islands raised questions about the unusually vicious mice that now roam the island (50 per cent heavier than wild mice anywhere in the world) and devastate the bird population.