Sentences with phrase «humans numbered less»

Before the Fossil Fuel Age (it started with coal burning around 1700), humans numbered less than one billion for their entire evolutionary existence on this planet.

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But the movie doesn't shy away from portraying Mr. Buffett, now 86, as something of a remarkable human computer, gifted with numbers and less so with interpersonal relationships.

the number of xtians persecuted compared to the total number of grisly mass murders and genocides in human history if probably less than 1 %.

To get an idea of the mystery and wonder which is a person, note that the number of elementary particles within a human body is 1027, whereas the number of stars in the observable universe is less, 1023; thus, there are 10,000 times more elementary particles in a human body than stars in the heavens.

So at day 14, the number of nerve and brain cells in the human embryo is zero, and it has less complexity than the simplest microscopic worm and less feeling or intelligence than a parasite in dirty drinking water.

Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a less obvious trait - the ability to understand numbers - also is shared by humans and their primate cousins.

Since then, a number of more or less reputable organisations and scientists claim to have successfully brought a cloned human embryo to term - but none have been able or willing to confirm this.

Less clear is how this misfolding relates to the growing number of genes implicated in PD through analysis of human genetics.

This reliance may explain why humans give less weight to human life as the number of potential victims goes up.

The number human protein coding genes, which account for less than 2 % of the human genome, have recently been found to number over 20,000.

«Obviously we're disappointed that the number is flat,» says David Moore of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in Washington, D.C.. It's not a surprise, however, because the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education had less overall money to work with than its Senate counterpart, he says.

«Only three interventions — severely cutting the number of calories consumed, restricting the amount of methionine (a type of amino acid found in meat and other proteins) in the diet and using the drug rapamycin — have been shown to truly prolong the lifespans of vertebrates, but eating less and not eating meat will not be welcomed by general population, while rapamycin has shown to suppress the human immune system,» Liu said.

Already, northern right whales have a Potential Biological Removal (PBR) of less than 1, the number that can safely be removed from their population each year by human causes.

A female bowerbird is of far less importance to the casual human observer, and it is perhaps because of this indifference that the robot also fooled a number of humans.

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association was not happy about the findings of the EPIC study, one of the largest studies on human nutrition ever performed — which, as we've seen recently, found that those who eat any kind of meat go on to gain significantly more weight than those who eat less — even eating the same number of calories.

When that happens, hormones as well as a number of other singling molecules like neurotransmitters which you began this talk with are released and they have very definitive brain care taking effects, but due to endocrine disrupting compounds that we're exposed to on a daily basis that are hormone disrupting and even sociologic ways that we now live differently with texting being the new talking so there's less one on one connection, there's a lot more anger, there's many people starting to write books on this, our human connection is, and I love your book very much, our human connection is waning.

And all their customer service numbers got us connected to actual human representatives in less than a minute.

A number of the cats became friendlier towards humans and there was notably less aggressive interaction between each other.

Ingrid also cares for the human; she made me feel a lot less embarrassed and inadequate by sharing her own story, and pointing to the reality that no matter how great a job I do, the cats will be cats and at these numbers part of being cats will likely include urine marking.

Considering the massive number if serious physical adverse reactions, not to even mention the psychiatric ones, associated with all antidepressants I can not even comprehend why anyone would ever recommend one to a human, much less a poor innocent dog who can not tell you what they are feeling.

In conversations with the authors a number of years ago, they told me that the Arctic breeds, those that might have been later to be domesticated or exposed to the same highly carnivorous diet as arctic - dwelling humans seemed less able to digest carbohydrates and starches.

But while the numbers of shark attacks have been climbing, the uptick has less to do with an increasing shark population, but rather attributable to human encroachment of their territory.

The Human, Asari, Salarian and Turian races each have their own ark, with other races, such as the Krogan, also joining these arks but in lesser numbers.

hysteria of the more religious opponents of nuclear power; second, that the effects even seem to be less detrimental than just living around large numbers of humans.

Regardless of the human - forced calamities — the ones derived from unchecked consumption, unbridled dissipation of resources bound up in the process of economic globalization, and skyrocketing global human numbers — that might befall coming generations, we live on in a patently unsustainable fantasy world (we call it reality) of idle comforts, effortless ease, conspicuous consumption, secret handshakes, exclusive clubs, exotic hideaways and thousands of private jets, having abandoned our regard for the less fortunate among us, for the maintenance of life as we know it, and for the preservation of the integrity of Earth.

Put another way, not seeing that the colossal size of the multi-trillion dollar global economy is soon to become unsustainable in the relatively small, bounded world we inhabit is a misperception; not seeing that increasing per - capita consumption of Earth's limited resources by six billion, soon to be nine billion, people can not go on much longer, much less forever, is a mistaken impression; and not seeing that absolute global human population numbers, just like the population numbers of other species, can not increase endlessly, relative to a limited resource base, is a misconception, I suppose.

Now, it's clear the numbers on this very web site that humans caused substantially less than half of global warming in the early 20th century and before.

If it changes depending on how it is considered, it probably doesn't mean anything more than «the majority of humans have less than the average number of testicles» Again a completely non-sensical statistic, even if completely true.

Thirty years to establish a climate state seems a long time, as within that period there may be notable shifts to a number of different prevailing patterns of cold / warmth / wet or drought that, on a human scale affects agriculture and horticulture by impacting on what crops may be grown successfully, may affect the tourism season, may cause a consumer to use more or less energy in their home, and also impact on nature by affecting the populations of wild life and vegetation.

In the big picture it's quite simple: In a world with finite resources, fewer people mean greater levels of resources equitably available to all, while greater numbers of people mean there's less to go around without running into conflict over those resources or tragically and perpetually marginalizing parts of our human family.

The Public Editor doesn't have any solutions of his own, but offers a number of questions and a few intriguing suggestions, such as an archive programmed to «forget» less important information just like humans do.

The number of lawyers taking up human rights cases now, not to mention those who take up the less sensitive public interest cases, has grown to a few hundred, if not a thousand.

While this is a good starting point, younger families should consider a larger number since they have more working years remaining (and therefore a larger human capital to replace), and older folks may need less as they near retirement or have assets they accumulated already.

Monster Companions are less valuable in this game, because there are a large number of human characters, who can learn most of the same skills and powers monsters obtain.