Sentences with phrase «human use of fire»

«Global data shows inverse relationship, shift in human use of fire.»

Not exact matches

The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilities in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China.

I find it very difficult understanding exclusive food choices especially more extreme then veganism for instance (since 99.9 % of ALL humans cook from the very discovery of fire in the prehistory; I don't think there is any tribe left out there that doesn't use fire) I have a feeling you are ready for compromise though (Cooked potatoes, hot vegetable broth etc.) so that sounds reasonable and good for your child who will not be marginalized and left out of society.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

A technique that involves genetically engineering brain cells so that they fire in the presence of certain drugs has been used to treat epilepsy in rats, and it could soon be tested in humans.

Evidence of early humans» use of fire could be used to mark how they overcame their energy needs, said primatologist and biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham of Harvard University.

Once opened up, formerly intact forests become increasingly susceptible to natural pressures such as disease, fires, and erosion; they become less resilient to human - made climate change, and they become more accessible to human use, driving a spiral of decline.

Significant human alteration of the biosphere began more than 15,000 years ago as Palaeolithic tribes evolved social learning, advanced hunting and foraging technologies, and the use of fire, and used them to open up forested landscapes and kill off megafauna.

Analyses of temperate rain forests located on the central coast of British Columbia, Canada suggest that for centuries, humans have intentionally used fire to manage plant - life.

Even better than the real thing, the NIST synapse can fire much faster than the human brain — 1 billion times per second, compared to a brain cell's 50 times per second — using just a whiff of energy, about one ten - thousandth as much as a human synapse.

Over time, the majority of human fire use has shifted from indigenous burning to agricultural burning to fossil fuel burning.

The researchers note that in Europe, over 95 % of all forest fires are caused by humans, including negligence when smoking cigarettes, using campfires and other open fires that are not put out properly, and even arson.

Other examples include bone that shows signs of human modification, fire cracked rocks from a hearth or plant material used for food.

The new findings of successful multi-year drought / fire predictions are based on a series of computer modeling experiments, using the state - of - the - art earth system model, the most detailed data on current ocean temperature and salinity conditions, and the climate responses to natural and human - linked radiative forcing.

A technique that involves genetically engineering brain cells so that they fire in the presence of certain drugs has been used to treat an epilepsy - like condition in rats, and it could soon be trialled in humans.

Brominated fire retardants, used in many consumer products and known to cause hormonal irregularities, overstimulates an adrenal gland hormone in a way that may lead to the development of cardiovascular disease, new research in human cells finds.

But it wasn't until May this year that researchers measured the firing of mirror neurons in humans directly, using electrodes implanted in the brains of epileptic patients awaiting surgery (Current Biology, vol 20, p 750).

About a decadelater he invented an electronic mainframe computer called the Connection Machine that worked somewhat like a human brain; instead of one processor, it had 65,536, all firing at once like buzzing neurons, a model that supercomputers have used ever since.

New research conducted by scientists at the University of York and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona reveals for the first time that Europe's earliest humans did not use fire for cooking, but had a balanced diet of meat and plants - all eaten raw.

He and other researchers are studying the behavior of both humans and fire, to make recommendations for better land - use management.

The technique relies on the radioactive isotope carbon - 14, whose radioactivity diminishes over time in a predictable manner, allowing researchers to calculate the age of ancient human sites using charcoal from fires or the bones of the prehistoric humans themselves.

Chimpanzees, our closest living ancestors, have demonstrated impressive feats of language and tool use, but fire use «is the most human skill that we have», says Nira Alperson an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

«The main worry is that if deforestation increases, in combination with the increase fragmentation, increase in drought probability [caused by climate change] and the use of fires by humans, carbon emissions could escalate to proportions never experienced before.»

Previous research has shown that the first instance of fire use occurred around 1.9 million years ago, around the time humans» ancestors began to develop bigger noggins.

The first evidence of early humans using fire dates back to more than a million years, but the practice did not become routine until about 650,000 years later, the latest research indicates.

Compare this with the use of fire and candles human have used for most of history, at 1800K.

So while working on the set of The X-Files guarding the honey wagons (while this can be interpreted as some sort of honey filled cart and while a search for this will give you a suction-esque type of machinery that literally sucks up human excrement but instead in reality is just a simple nice way of saying a trailer for actors and actresses) he was fired for following his dreams; writing out scripts in hopes that one day he would be able to put that film degree to good use.

And it invests Mowgli with a touch of optimistic environmentalist fantasy: where human mastery of fire and tools was presented in earlier films as a threat, and Mowgli's fated exit from the jungle as an unfortunate necessity, in this film the boy is shown using his ingrained ingenuity to solve problems beyond the capabilities of his animal pals, as when he builds a rappel and pulley system to help Baloo claim honey from a cliffside beehive he's been coveting.

Yet while states and districts race to design new systems, most discussion of how the information might be used has focused on traditional human resource — management tasks, namely, hiring, firing, and compensation.

The older Kindle ereaders have more of a robotic TTS voice whereas the Fire tablets use more pleasant and human - like IVONA voices.

The Kecak Fire Dance is one of Bali's most iconic art performances, famous for its dominant use of human vocals in place of gamelan instruments to accompany the dance - drama at its core.

Human weapons include assault rifles and shotguns, as well as their alien counterparts, but every gun has an alternate fire some of which are legitimately incredible the first time you use them.

The sap of the amate tree used to make paper is blood, the smoke of fire is human breath, and the tree bark is human skin.

Putting oneself in the line of fire of the harpoon to defend the right to life of another species is, I believe, one of the first new cultural concepts to appear in human culture, which for more than 2000 years has been predicated on the belief that all animals were created for the benefit of and use by humans.

In the tropics, fire has been used to manage and tame landscapes through most of human history.

This study provides a first examination of global disruptions to fire activity using an empirically based statistical framework and a multi-model ensemble of GCM projections, an important step toward assessing fire - related vulnerabilities to humans and the ecosystems upon which they depend.

Making fire undoubtedly was a major reason we as humans are still here, but since we now are burning up all organic matter sequestered over millions of years, shouldn't we change directions and find other ways to satisfy our need for energy and isn't it time we start using all our knowledge we as humans have acquired over all these years?

From mining through final disposal of waste from coal - fired power plants, the use of coal produces a wide range of impacts on the natural environment and human health.

He uses tree - ring records in combination with other natural archives and documentary sources to reconstruct the histories of fire, insect outbreaks, human land uses, and climate.

Neilio, I'm with you on this.I just love the way you stand up to that guy's strange arguments.I too am extremely concerned at the way we are all being made to follow this crazy «science», to the detriment of most normal Humans» lives.I'm in England.We are living on a huge mass of fossil fuel, (coal, oil and now gas from Fracking), and we're being told that we must not use it to keep warm.Coal - fired power plants are being shut down.Useless windfarms are swamping our country.Nuclear stations are planned when Germany has banned them in favour of Coal.China and India are building and using more coal stations than we ever did.

Bigots like you, that use outdated pagan beliefs are giving oxygen to Mann, Hansen, For every change, there is a real reason and there is the outdated pagan crap — apart from me, nobody takes in consideration what human invention of artificial fire did to» LOCALIZED climates» instead, is used as phony GLOBAL warmings / coolings, shame shame Richard & Co:: http://globalwarmingdenier.wordpress.com/midi-ice-age-can-be-avoided/

Although human population numbers were low through most of history they could have quite extensive impact, especially through use of fire.

(maybe most of you are too cool to remember that sort of moment... but think of something equally bad like the time you accidentally set something on fire and it started getting out of control...) I think it will be worse than that... Seems like to me we need to be much, much, more certain before we go making policy all over the earth that could actually harm us... or maybe not quite so bad, but really not desirable, harm many developing countries and distract them from addressing real environmental land use and energy production problems that would actually help the environment and save human lives now, today... but keep an eye on the future... not suggesting head in the sand stuff... just let's stop the panic... if you have to panic it's probly too late... most people don't behave terribly rationally while panicing...

Fire has been part of the human toolkit for between 50,000 and 100,000 years, with reliable evidence of at least occasional human use going back hundreds of thousands of years earlier.

Also, your presumed conjecture that humans would be using fire to clear land in forests does not seem consistent with my understanding of how we used fire in the past to create farmland, our ancestors would have more likely set fire to fields.

Academics consider use of fire or wearing clothing as major advances in human history.

In his commentary Wetzel also reminds that humans have been using fire for some one million years, and that it can not be expected that they will just stop doing so during the course of one single generation.

Widespread agricultural land use by mid-Holocene is further evidenced by altered fire regimes that may have transformed vegetation structure and species composition across many regions, with woodland ecosystems from the Mediterranean to the Tropics increasingly recognized as the bio-cultural legacies of long histories of prior human use (50, 74, 78 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 84).

Much more of the miracle molecule came from volcanoes and subsea vents, forest fires, biofuel use, decaying plants and animals, and «exhaust» from living, breathing animals and humans.

«The abundance and number of spider species is negatively affected by the impact of many human land uses, such as habitat fragmentation, fire and pesticides», Samuel Prieto - Benítez and Marcos Méndez, researchers at the URJC Biodiversity and Conservation Department, tell SINC.