Sentences with phrase «ideas about human evolution»

Jane Qiu's story, on how fossil finds in China are challenging ideas about human evolution, won the Silver 2016 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.

Such familiarity would have been crucial in designing the forgery, which catered to geologists» desire for confirmation of ideas about human evolution based on a small number of fossil remains, and would have validated Dawson's well - known scientific aspirations.

Brown knew he was looking at something strange, something that would challenge our ideas about human evolution, as soon as he laid eyes on that first skull from Liang Bua Cave.

At a meeting on human origins, held this month in Gibraltar, bones in a Spanish cave and stone tools in Asia sparked controversial new ideas about human evolution and migration.

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The concept of God did not spring out of thin air - intelligent humans created him and then thousands of years later used the idea to explain what they did not understand and / or like about evolution.

Our ideas about later human evolution, meanwhile, have been shattered by the remains of a tiny, novel human species with a small but intricately folded brain.

«What is fantastic about this paper is that Herman and his colleagues have effectively integrated all of the earlier ideas into a unified theory for energy and the evolution of human characteristics,» Aiello says.

Schwartz's conclusion — that today's reality may be tomorrow's discarded truth, and that ideas which run counter to received wisdom should not be dismissed out of hand — is particularly welcome, and a refreshing sentiment from a participant in the current debates about human evolution.

According to paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his colleagues, who unearthed and analyzed the remains, they represent a new species of human — Homo naledi, for «star» in the local Sotho language — that could overturn some deeply entrenched ideas about the origin and evolution of our genus, Homo.

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

Titles on offer now include an explainer on economics, one on human evolution, another on the brain, plus a history title on the Russian revolution and a book about Greek and Roman political ideas.

There is mind boggling title on economics, one on human evolution, another on the brain, plus the history title of the Russian revolution and a book about Greek and Roman political ideas.