Sentences with phrase «human survival at»

Other scientists are exploring the origin of economic strategies, such as fishing, hunting and gathering, in modern humans over the last few thousand years, and how the development of these strategies may have contributed significantly to human survival at the onset of huge climatic changes at the beginning of the Holocene period.

Not exact matches

Pollution kills at least 9 million people every year and «threatens the continuing survival of human societies,» according to a new study.

The values to care the human and the natural life are destroyed by the logics of the profit and survival at all costs.

Certain behaviours are universally detrimental to a species survival and as such should, at some level, be biologically «programmed» in to humans, and reflected in our socio - norms.

There is much that is commendable in tribalism and it has been essential to human survival, at least until the present.

to devin, at this point of our existence or civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God in His will, wanted us humans now to implement it through our evolved modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.

Right now at least 800 million people are in the throes of absolute poverty — poverty so severe that the basics of human survival are simply not available to them — according to the Independent Commission on International Development, chaired by former West German chancellor Willy Brandt.

Concerning the survival of the human personality after death, whether in the Platonic sense of the immortality of the soul or the biblical sense of the resurrection of the body, Hartshorne is at times agnostic and at others quite skeptical.

In fact, the only way the race (human) can survive is to look at reality square in the face and accept that the whole «survival of the fittest» (a true perversion of Darwinism and evolutionary ecology, by the way) is plain wrong.

That number one evolutionary rule of survival is «When Death is at your doorstep and has chained you to the walls without seeing the light of Creation or that which can be created then the human must fight against Death and invent new ways of defeating Death and his minions.»

Whatever else human beings are or become, they are, always and at bottom, also beings with an uncomplicated, innocent attachment to their own survival and ease, beings who experience and feel, immediately and without reflection, the goodness of their own aliveness.

None of the other values — of intelligence, creativity, conscience, or reverence — that education ought to promote has any meaning at all apart from the basal fact of human survival.

The self - confidence of prominent spokespeople and main actors of the dominant system has began to hesitate and they have had to recognize some of the problems and shortcomings, particularly at three points: First, the inadequacy of the «market» to solve by itself some of the serious threats to human survival, like the deterioration of the environment and the depletion of the energy resources.

It is thought, however, that levels of these fatty acids at levels greater than those found in human breast milk may have adverse effects on growth, survival, and neurodevelopment in other animals.

04.13.2013 HUMAN Healthy Vending Joins Coachella Line - Up, Will Perform at Saguro Hotel with Free Swag HUMAN Healthy Vending is joining Coachella's line up by stationing a rock star of its own, its «Media Mogul» machine, replete with free healthful items, including Just Chill drinks, Zico Coconut Water and Swatch Survival Kits, at the Saguaro Hotel in Palm Springs.

Too often we look at historical societies (especially hunter - gatherer ones which comprise the majority of human history) and dismiss them because of the threats to their survival.

Attendance at birth has been suggested to be essential in facilitating mother - child survival as the physiology of birth changed during human evolutionary history.

It is in this sense that human nature is fundamentally egoistic: at our most foundational level, we are only geared towards survival, and the rest of our moral compass is developed throughout the course of existence.

«At the same time, as the human ZNF217 is associated with poor survival in a variety of cancers, understanding how this protein operates in physiological conditions may help to predict cancer risk, achieve earlier diagnosis and provide novel therapeutic approaches.»

When his team looked at gene expression changes in the mice, then applied them to humans with early stage cancer, the results revealed a breakdown of which patients have a high or low chance of survival.

Better communication might have increased their odds of survival and enabled the new version of FOXP2 to spread throughout the entire human population, suggests Björn Brembs, a neurobiologist at the University of Regensburg in Germany, who was not involved with the work.

This more positive and social response could help explain the human connection that happens during times of crises, a connection that may be responsible, at least in part, for our collective survival as a species.

These pioneers sometimes had to abandon science to focus on survival, but at a time when humans couldn't get more than a few feet off the ground, the data they obtained accurately reckoned the distance to the sun at 93 million miles.

Does that suggest that music is somehow essential to human survival, or at least to social survival?

«We now know much more about metabolic reprogramming of cancerous tissues in human patients, particularly that the activation of pyruvate carboxylase is important to lung cancer cell growth and survival,» said Fan, UK professor of toxicology and faculty member of the Markey Cancer Center and CESB at the University of Kentucky.

The latest review of primate survival prospects shows that habitat loss from farming and human expansion is putting our closest evolutionary relatives at risk

The researchers caution that it's impossible to draw broad conclusions about Neandertal life histories from this one sample, such as whether Neandertals weaned their children earlier or later than modern humans who lived at the same time, or whether Neandertal children grew up faster, as some earlier studies have suggested — questions that could heavily bear on why Neandertals could not keep up with modern humans in the survival sweepstakes.

Although the cuts on Jane's bones and their location among other food waste point to survival cannibalism, King would like to see if the team at Jamestown can find conclusive signs, like burn marks on bones, that other remains were prepared for human consumption.

If that climate scenario is combined with habitat restoration efforts, particularly those aimed at connecting habitats that have been fragmented by human activity, the average population has a much higher probability of survival — about 50 %.

For long - lived species such as humans, chimpanzees, whales and some birds, longer survival is associated with higher reproductive rates and a loss in fertility only at an extremely old age.

At one point, he explained that so many more babies survive childbirth now that natural selection, as proposed by Charles Darwin, can not act on humans to favor infants with traits that are beneficial today or to weed out those with adaptations that impair survival.

Dr. Tajonar obtained her PhD in the laboratory of Prof. Douglas Melton at Harvard University in 2012 where she studied mechanisms of self - renewal and survival in human embryonic stem cells.

September 27, 2000 Prions may play crucial role in evolution Prions, abnormally folded proteins associated with several bizarre human diseases, may hold the key to a major mystery in evolution — how survival skills that require multiple genetic changes arise all at once when each genetic change by itself would be unsuccessful and even harmful.

Persistent survival of the transplant was not required in order to obtain benefit after transplantation, as behavioral recovery was as extensive in animals in which transplanted cells were still present at 5 weeks as in those in which no human cells were detected at this time point.

Prior to QB3, she studied mechanisms of self - renewal and survival in human embryonic stem cells in the laboratory of Professor Douglas Melton, completing her PhD at Harvard University in 2012.

It has a fight for human survival against impossible odds, just like in Gravity and All Is Lost (no, actually, it doesn't have those at all, unless going up against corporate power and money is an impossible odd... which it kinda is).

At the same time, young children may fear some of the survival - of - the - fittest comedy and the depiction of two human skeletons found among the wreckage of a plane.

The human brain, much like that of most mammals, has hardwired physiological responses that had survival value at some point in evolutionary progression.

National divisions dissolve as the human race bands together to give humanity a chance at survival in outer space.

An existential story of survival and a brutally honest look at the depths of human nature, The Lifeboat is sure to be among the best books of 2012, period.Early on, it becomes...

Almost all of that time, humans lived in hunter - gatherer societies, where survival of the fittest meant being the best at navigating the day - to - day needs for food and protection.

Cats, both pets and strays, may fool us into thinking that they depend on our food and trash for survival, but according to Alan Beck, professor of veterinary medicine and director of the Center for the Human - Animal Bond at Purdue University, they're expert predators with adaptable hunting behaviors.

Adding to this complicated list is the fact that cats often try to hide pain, especially in the presence of humans and other animals.9 Although this assists with their survival in the wild, pain - masking behavior is a hindrance to proper treatment, if any is provided at all.

They are at risk of starvation, injury, even death as they do not have the survival instincts to fend for themselves against the weather, cars, pest control, abusive humans and / or other cats.

Firstly, early in the domestication process, DDS may have provided dogs with a reliable cue that indicates safe social partners at a time when joining human groups may have been dangerous, and identifying those who would not be hostile would have been important for a dog's survival.

Laura Johnson, West Coast Territory Sales Manager, represented Trouw Nutrition USA at this inspiring evening that celebrated animal and human heroes alike and provided the crowd with stories of survival, companionship and acts of heroism — all in the name of raising money for life - saving spay and neuter programs.

The Center's Veterinary Science program, under the direction of Dr. Frances Gulland, Senior Scientist at The Marine Mammal Center, lays the foundation for a deeper understanding of human behaviors that may affect marine mammal survival for the long term.

Survival of the human race is at stake!

We've already lifted the lid on the first two modes, Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch, and just last week at an event in San Francisco we revealed the title's last multiplayer mode, Survival Mode, an intense power struggle between humans and the gruesome Chimera.

Enemy design is rather hideous in the sense of how players would anticipate enemies to look in a survival horror game with a gigantic female enemy named Guardian towering at around 8 feet tall wielding a saw blade as it runs at Sebastian whilst giggling, while a common yet scary enemy is The Lost and Hysterics which have a craving for feeding on human flesh, alongside a vast number of enemy bosses that are just as strong and ferocious as Guardian.