Sentences with phrase «human population at»

By 2050 or maybe a bit after, we will hopefully see the crest of human population at 9 - 10 billion.

I thought it was established that the human population at large would have been happy to send them on their way.

There were an estimated 60 million ranging over the plains — perhaps more than the human population at the time, although estimates of pre-Columbian populations in North America vary.

This chart shows the vampire and human population at the beginning of each month during a 29 - month period.

Not exact matches

In fact, «there has never been any report of a human population in which left - handed individuals predominate», according to archaeologist Natalie Uomini at the University of Liverpool in the UK.

Netanyahu said, «Hamas commits a double war crime when it deliberately attempts to strike at Israeli citizens and uses Gaza's civil population as a human shield.

«Archaic human admixture with modern Ho.mo sapiens occurred at least twice in history: with Neanderthals, and with the population to which the Denisova ho.minin belonged.

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.

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.»

At the beginning of the Christian era (it has been estimated) the human population of the earth was approximately 300 million.

They note that the global population of humans at the start of that year is estimated to be 536,870,911.

Over 600,000 violent deaths in a population estimated in 2006 at 26.8 million — that is, one in every 45 individuals — amounts to a made - in - America human catastrophe.

But meanwhile, do you think the geometric progression in human population rates can continue at this rate indefinitely?

Accordingly, there is some validity to pessimism as one contemplates the real capacity of the human race to do evil and the possibility that mankind may precipitate incalculably tragic evil and suffering by its wrong decisions regarding destructive warfare and the population explosion.53 Given creative becoming as an everlastingly continuous process, Hartshorne declares that there will always be some evil in the world; but the amount of evil will always be at least partially determined by creative choices.

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!

Some of us have to consider health as well as taste (I use a low carb diet to maintain normal blood glucose instead of taking diabetes drugs, while at the same time I focus on foods that have a long tradition of supporting healthy populations, as well as limit processed «fake food» ingredients which are novel to the human diet).

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

Every population, ethnicity, religion, etc has been subjugated at some point in history to continue this mass civilization human experiment... infact it is the only way achieve advanced society.

The second infection that's also been on the rise is Syphilis, particularly amongst populations that are at higher risk to contract Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV, such as young men who have sex with men or injection drug using adolescence.

The equation predicts an age at weaning for humans at between 2.8 and 3.7 years, depending on average adult female body weight, with larger - bodied populations nursing the longest.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

To examine the availability of donor human milk (DHM) in a population - based cohort and assess whether the availability of DHM was associated with rates of breast milk feeding at NICU discharge and rates of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).

«13,000 - year - old human footprints found off Canada's Pacific coast: New evidence of human population living on the west coast of Canada at the end of last ice age.»

What many observers can not pardon or justify, however, is the failure of that same government to, at the very least, guarantee its population the protection of their human and civil rights.

A new report from FPI looks at the importance of jobs in the nonprofit health care and social assistance sector in New York City, and examines how the hardships facing the city's low - income population — the main constituency served by the nonprofit human services sector — have grown in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009 and the weak recovery over the past three years.

In Africa alone, the continent with the highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking at World Population Day, it is at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growing.

Event attendee Chris Karmosky of Treadwell, a climatologist who teaches meteorology at SUNY Oneonta, said the climate is changing and though many in his profession believe that humans are to blame for accelerated climate change, the general population does not believe that is the case.

Both Taylor and the city's Human Resources Administration Commissioner Steve Banks testified Wednesday that the city is pumping an «unprecedented» amount of money, time and effort into addressing the city's sizable homeless population, which is now estimated at roughly 58,000 people in shelters, and more than 3,000 people on city streets.

I continued working at the interface of science and epidemiology, first with Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, a New Haven - based pharmacogenomics company, where I was involved in the fascinating study of human genetic variation and population genetics.

«The initial dispersals out of Africa prior to 60,000 years ago were likely by small groups of foragers, and at least some of these early dispersals left low - level genetic traces in modern human populations.

This massive environmental change is believed to have created population bottlenecks in the various species that existed at the time; this in turn accelerated differentiation of the isolated human populations, eventually leading to the extinction of all the other human species except for the branch that became modern humans.

This blog appears in the In - Depth Report Science at the Sochi Olympics Climate change poses a well - documented threat to ecosystems and human populations worldwide.

«13,000 - year - old human footprints found off Canada's Pacific coast: New evidence of human population living on the west coast of Canada at the end of last ice age.»

«There are many studies in humans, and at least one in chimpanzees, showing that from an immunological perspective, juveniles and children are really important for maintaining diseases in populations through play and things like that,» she said.

«The geological similarities between the sediments at the place where the skull was found and sediments laid down during the 1998 tsunami that hit this same coastline have made us realise that human populations in this area have been affected by these massive inundations for thousands of years.»

Curiously, the researchers noted in their paper, the Denisovan population shows «a drastic decline in size at the time when the modern human population began to expand.»

The researchers used information on a reef's habitat, depth, nearby human population and amount of fishing to model how many fish could live at each site.

«The fact that people with metabolic syndrome had lower bioavailability of vitamin E was expected, but it had never been studied before and therefore we've had no guidance to make recommendations for that population,» said Richard Bruno, professor of human nutrition at The Ohio State University and lead author of the study.

Lurking behind all these crises is at least one shared factor: human population.

Experts have estimated that such deletions may account for 10 % of all BRCA1 mutations in the U.S. population, says human geneticist Brian Ward, vice president of laboratory operations at Myriad Genetics, one of the main producers of commercial BRCA1 tests.

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.

Then they compared the Dmanisi population with a range of fossils belonging to ancient African hominins alive at the same time, and used modern humans and chimpanzees as control groups.

Encroaching agriculture — from beef to soya production — to feed a growing and more affluent human population means that, at the current rates, the number of 10,000 km2 landscapes in the Amazon that fall below the species loss threshold of 43 % forest cover will almost double by just 2030.

Society's increasingly pervasive use of digital technology may be causing ADHD - like symptoms even among the general population, according to a new study of college students presented this week in San Jose, California at the Human - Computer Interaction conference of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Hopefully at least some local governments in developing countries have taken heed and stepped up efforts to site potentially hazardous industrial facilities away from both human population centers and environmentally sensitive landscapes.

«This means that modern humans emerged earlier than previously thought,» says Mattias Jakobsson, population geneticist at Uppsala University who headed the project together with Stone Age archaeologist Marlize Lombard at the University of Johannesburg.

So far they have mapped the natural geologic stresses throughout Oklahoma and Texas — the states with the largest populations at risk from human - induced quakes — and have discovered that only a fraction of faults hold the potential to slip in the presence of moderate pressure increases.

Dr Louise McDowell, Dr Deborah Wells and Professor Peter Hepper from the School of Psychology at Queen's, recruited 44 cats for the study and found that while there was no overall population preference like the human preference for right handedness, there was a gender preference.

The first government - funded human genomics research study performed on African soil — aimed at unlocking the unique genetic character of southern African populations — has revealed a high level of genetic diversity.

Even in Africa, at the heart of the pandemic, in Malawi, 21 percent of MSM are infected with the virus compared with 11 percent of the general population, whereas Zambia's rates are 33 percent versus 15 percent, respectively, says Chris Beyrer, director of the Johns Hopkins Center of Public Health and Human Rights.