Sentences with phrase «human species back»

Since the idea of sequencing the Neandertal genome became more than a glimmer in a paleogeneticist's eye, some have asked, «Could we, should we, would we, bring this extinct human species back to life?»

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Wouldn't it be a miracle if one day, perhaps in my lifetime, humans turned their back on the past and became the one incarnation of the species Homo sapiens to accept that there is no god and pour their intelligence and resources into the discovery of reality?

Back when humans were evolving, reproduction served the human species.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

Apes and humans all shared a common ancestor, who, waaaaaay back when, branched off into multiple different species.

The human species would fold back upon itself, merging all ethnic groups and cultures into one unified species, one global culture.

The period of time which witnessed the divergence of these hominoid or human species from the various species of anthropoid apes may take us back from ten to twenty - five million years.

For example, for at least the first nine months that human babies is a quadruplet and that would suggest that maybe feeding on the baby is coming like some of our mammalian cousins do, would be more species specific than being held with close pressure applied on the babies back and head and neck as it's necessary when mothers sit upright.

Search for one of 78 species of butterflies on the sanctuary, listen for birds, notice how humans have shaped the landscape, and peer into ponds to find frogs staring back at you!

And recent finds in Africa have pushed back the start date for our species» long love affair with the material, hinting that modern human cognition may have developed much earlier than we thought.

Traveling back almost eight million years to our earliest primate relatives, Evolution: The Human Story charts the development of our species from tree - dwelling primates to modern humans.

«That night back at the hotel, we were Googling «human finger bone» and, yeah, it looked like our species.»

Using genetic material extracted from lemur bones and teeth dating back 550 to 5,600 years, an international team of researchers analyzed DNA from as many as 23 individuals from each of five extinct lemur species that died out after human arrival.

The groundbreaking study suggests that this skill likely can be traced back to the last common ancestor of great apes and humans, and may be found in other species.

In addition, some of the oldest Flores remains date back before modern humans were thought to be in the area, which suggests that Flores Man was a distinct species.

Previous research at the Afar rift unearthed fossils of some of the earliest known hominins — that is, humans and related species dating back to the split from the ape lineages.

Although some species are able to make this shift on their own, others are held back by human or natural obstacles.

Somewhere between 3 and 1.4 million years ago, HSV2 jumped the species barrier from African apes back into human ancestors — probably through an intermediate hominin species.

People have been digging up human fossils for more than 150 years, and yet the past decade alone has seen a string of spectacular discoveries, from fossils that push back hominin origins millions of years to a separate species of Hobbit - sized hominins who were alive just 17,000 years ago.

Well, there's a simple explanation for that... humans were the ONLY species with a well developed enough brain to understand how to control fire and therefore cook our food... And since we've been cooking a portion of our foods for the entire existence of our species (200,000 years) as well as our ancestors back several million years, our digestive systems have adapted to eating a portion of our food cooked.

I think if at all human race evolved it should put in the back burner real estate venerations as nationalism, religious edicts drafted for a period in remote past conditions and instead live life in present in present context and make it livable for all humans and other species.

The study, published by Springer in the Animal Cognition journal, suggests that the reason for cats» unresponsive behaviour might be traced back to the early domestication of the species, contrasting this with the relationship of humans to dogs.

Why do mentally - unbalanced and psychotic cat - advocates always presume that if someone is removing a highly destructive, deadly disease spreading, human - engineered invasive - species from the native habitat to restore it back into natural balance that they must hate that organism?

The human race has wiped out hundreds of species of animals in its shorter history on this planet kill what they don't understand if the dog is muzzled in public kept on a lead unless on its own kept in secure conditions and looked after with love and strength then what the fuck has it got to do with anyone else its criminal to remove a dog not allow it to be even seen to make sure its being looked after or find anything out as to its well fare keep the dog caged for the 9 to 12 month they keep it u get an animal back not a well adjusted dog.

We made that pact with human beings several millennia back, to work in cooperation for the improved conditions of both species.

Visitors can swim across a pool to enter the ATM Cave where ancient Maya priests once performed human sacrifices, explore the ruins of Cahal Pech, once home to an elite royal Maya family more than a thousand years ago, rappel more than 300 feet down the infamous «Back Hole Drop», ride an inner tube down the Caves Branch river while passing through the remnants of the Maya underworld, zip line through the jungle canopy, enjoy some of the best fishing anywhere in the world, snorkel in crystal clear water, and enjoy bird watching in a land that more than 500 species of birds call home.

In turn, in order to understand modern civilization, we need to look even farther back, at how humans lived before we became «modern and civilized» and what happened to push our species across that threshold.

In my exploration of the human predicament these days, I keep stumbling back on the idea that we've been locked into what amounts to the species - scale equivalent of an adolescent binge for the last century or two.

Where do humans hold the line on the flow of species, and where do they give in and fall back on sustaining the functioning of valued ecosystems instead of the mix of species within such systems?

I'd remind you that while humans have survived more than a full glacial cycle, we didn't yet exist as a species when temperatures last hit 3 C above our pre-Industrial levels, back in the Pliocene.

Let's face it, because no one will: it all comes down to halting human population growth, then slowly shrinking it back to a level where other species have breathing room, and we have a smaller energy footprint on the earth.

The problem for the present swollen human species is of a drift back into an ice - age, not away from an ice - age.»

«Loss refers to things that are lost for ever and can not be brought back, such as human lives or species loss, while damages refers to things that are damaged, but can be repaired or restored, such as roads or embankments.»

The episode, the ninth in the series, looked back on the climatic and physical upheavals undergone by Earth, before highlighting the mild interglacial climate that allowed the human species to kickstart the neolithic revolution and the first civilizations.