Sentences with phrase «known of human evolution»

That portion includes what is known of human evolution, which provides essential background on human behavior.

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God using evolution to create shows way more time and dedication to the emergence of humans, but of course the fundamentalists know best and claim to KNOW that genesis was meant to be 100 % literal despite gaps and missing pieces translating from a very simplistic language into Englknow best and claim to KNOW that genesis was meant to be 100 % literal despite gaps and missing pieces translating from a very simplistic language into EnglKNOW that genesis was meant to be 100 % literal despite gaps and missing pieces translating from a very simplistic language into English.

You're talking about the type of «evolution» that we always knew existed and to make matters worse you're bragging about the advancements made by INTELLIGENT HUMAN BEINGS which still don't even come close to the complication of macro evolution but still required thousands of years of scientific advancement and knowledge and a team of researchers with high iq's working aroudn the clock with microscopes.

I don't have to use my imagination to know that we have endless evidence showing the evolution of many types of species, including humans.

@DOC in addition to what we know about immunology in animals and humans, what you described concerning bacteria is precisely the definition of adaptation and not evolution, the gene already exists!

to Jake, in every era or times in the past, humans have different perception of reality, because our knowledge improves or changes toward sophistication, For example during the times of Jesus, there was no science yet as what we have today, since the religion in the past corresponds to their needs, it is true for them in the past, but today we already knew many new ideas and facts, so what is applicable in the past is no longer today, like religion, we have also to change to conform with todays knowledge.The creation or our origin for example is now explained beyond doubt by science as the big bang and evolution is the reason we become humans, is in contrast to creation in the bibles genesis,.

«in addition to what we know about immunology in animals and humans, what you described concerning bacteria is precisely the definition of adaptation and not evolution, the gene already exists!

What so many Catholics seem to be saying is that, so far as we can determine with our unaided human intellects, according to even the «metaphysically modest» version of neo-Darwinism, there is no real plan, purpose, or design in living things, and absolutely no directionality to evolution; yet we know those things to be true by faith.

Yeah but they want to teach the controversy... you know, how the earth might be only 10,000 years old (no it isn't) and that humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth together (no they didn't) and that evolution has no evidence (yes it does) or that there was a global flood (no there wasn't) or that the earth might be flat or the center of the universe or a million other wrong headed theories that fly in the face of the evidence.

Noone has ever said that humans evolved from monkeys except for idiots who know nothing about the fact of evolution.

Of course we know that this evolution was promoted by humans but it doesn't really matter.

What we know of biological evolution suggests that modern human subjectivity emerged very gradually over a long period of time out of simpler forms of subjectivity.

In short, the Nature we know from modern science embodies and reflects immaterial properties and a depth of intelligibility... To view all these extremely complex, elegant and intelligible laws, entities, properties and relations in the evolution of the universe as «brute facts» in need of no further explanation is, in the words of the great John Paul II, an «abdication of human intelligence».»

We are beginning to be aware that, no matter where we were born and whatever our culture, we share a common story — the story of human origins within the more complex story of the evolution of life on the planet.

If, as we have shown, the social phenomenon is not merely a blind determinism but the portent, the inception of a second phase of human Reflexion (this time not merely individual but collective), then it must mean that the phylum is reconstituting itself above our heads in a new form, a new ramification, no longer of divergence but of convergence; and consequently it is the Sense of Evolution which, suppressing the spirit of egoism, is of its own right springing to new life in our hearts, and in such a way as to counteract those elements in the forces of collectivization which are poisonous to Life.

I no longer believe that there is any inherent conflict between the Scriptures and the scientific account of human origins, by which of course I mean evolution.

You can do so much better than to resort to such stock canards as «If humans evolved from monkeys when you know full well what the theory of evolution says regarding the multiple species of primates.

But in an emergent, hierarchical universe faith is the kind of knowing whereby we at the human level of evolution leave ourselves open to being grasped by a more encompassing field of influence.13 In the cosmic hierarchy the lower can not comprehend the higher.

At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire observable Universe and its billions of galaxies about 13,720,000,000 years ago (the approximate age of the current iteration of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine.

Yet human infants also display what are known as «secondarily altricial» characteristics — primarily lack of neuromuscular control — a consequence of the limits imposed on gestational brain development by the evolution of the human pelvis.

Palaeoanthropologists often use chimps as «proxies» for our common ancestor, so Ardi's debut may mean that much of what we think we know about human evolution will have to be rethought.

We don't know much about the genetic evolution of the human brain.

«It seems like ergot has been involved with animals and humans almost forever, and now we know that this fungus literally dates back to the earliest evolution of grasses,» said George Poinar, Jr., an internationally recognized expert on the life forms found in amber and a faculty member in the OSU College of Science.

«Of course, much of evolution is down to luck, so this isn't concrete, but we know that complex, intelligent species like humans could not emerge after only a few million years because it took us 75 per cent of the entire habitable lifetime of this planet to evolvOf course, much of evolution is down to luck, so this isn't concrete, but we know that complex, intelligent species like humans could not emerge after only a few million years because it took us 75 per cent of the entire habitable lifetime of this planet to evolvof evolution is down to luck, so this isn't concrete, but we know that complex, intelligent species like humans could not emerge after only a few million years because it took us 75 per cent of the entire habitable lifetime of this planet to evolvof the entire habitable lifetime of this planet to evolvof this planet to evolve.

In addition to being the oldest known example of an early primate skeleton, the new fossil is crucial in elucidating a pivotal event in primate and human evolution — the evolutionary divergence that led to modern monkeys, apes and humans (collectively known as anthropoids) on one branch, and to living tarsiers on the other.

Losos concludes that humans are no more the end - point of evolution than is the platypus, with its singular and slightly comical assemblage of characteristics.

Any RNA, when in a complex with another oligoribonucleotide known as an external guide sequence (EGS), can become a substrate for ribonuclease P. Simulation of evolution in vitro was used to select EGSs that bind tightly to a target substrate messenger RNA and that increase the efficiency of cleavage of the target by human ribonuclease P to a level equal to that achieved with natural substrates.

The phenomenon, known as cumulative cultural evolution, was considered «arguably unique to humans,» says Dora Biro, a behavioral biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Prosin says that as far as she knows both chimps still reside in a lab at Stony Brook, where they are the subjects of experiments to understand the evolution of human bipedalism.

Scientists of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment and the University of Tübingen have discovered what may well be the oldest known case of Leukemia.

But the work Reich has done already leaves no doubt that interbreeding was a major feature of human evolution.

When Reich entered college, in 1992, most of what scientists knew about human evolution came from fossils.

They found that during evolution, a reshuffling of DNA known as translocation brought together separate chunks of sex - determining genes onto a single chromosome, essentially mimicking the human X or Y chromosome.

Scientists know that eventually, these RNA chains must have become longer and longer, setting the stage for the evolution of complex life forms like amoebas, worms, and eventually humans.

None reveal the existence of a yeti or Bigfoot, reports Bryan Sykes, an Oxford University geneticist well - known for his research on human evolution.

Hubristic humans should heed the boom - and - bust vision of Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink's book, a grand synthesis of all that is known about evolution

At this point in human evolution, a certain gene, known as CMAH, that allows for the synthesis of a sugar called Neu5Gc, went missing.

A landmark new study, led by scientists at Bowdoin and the California Academy of Sciences, explores the fascinating, little - known natural history of the face mite species Demodex folliculorum, using genetic testing to link the microscopic animal's evolution to our own ever - evolving human story.

«Monkeys moved into that ape niche, in terms of a dental pattern, but what exactly that means I don't know yet,» said Hlusko, a member of UC Berkeley's Human Evolution Research Center.

The atlas opens new pathways for the investigation of the paleobiology and evolution of what may arguably be one of the most famous, yet surprisingly poorly known animals that went extinct in recent human history.

PARIS — He may be called Little Foot, but for human evolution researchers he's a big deal: His is the most complete skeleton known of an early member of the human lineage.

The belief was so ingrained that paleoanthropologists and others investigating human evolution figured that if they saw molar eruption in the fossilized skull of a young human ancestor, they'd assume they knew the age and feeding behavior.

«Unfortunately, there are very few fossil finds of Gigantopithecus — only a few large teeth and bones from the lower mandible are known,» explains Prof. Dr. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) at the University of Tübingen, and he continues, «But now, we were able to shed a little light on the obscure history of this primate.»

Stringer: Well, it is certainly, it a stance that I have argued for a long time, but on the other hand, to be fair to the geneticists there are some who, I mean, Henry Harpending has just published a book called, I don't know, The Last 10,000 years of Human Evolution [or something like that], where he argues that in fact Neandertals did contribute, and he is a distinguished geneticist.

First discovered in plants about 60 years ago, they are now known to make up more than 40 percent of the entire human genome and may play an important role in genome evolution (pdf).

The story of human evolution no longer looks like a smooth, gradual transition from ape to hominid.

The famous human relative known as «Lucy» has reigned alone as queen of an important time and place in human evolution: Ethiopia about 3.2 million years ago, roughly the time when the first stone tools appear in East Africa.

Steve: You know, today is also the anniversary of the death of Darwin, speaking of the human evolution with Kate, and just to finish up — am I wrong, but isn't the place you're most likely to find a fistfight at a conference, one of these human evolution anthropology conferences where people are arguing over whether that bone represents a new species or just an example of a known species or whether some artifact is again a new species or some kind of pathological example of an old species?

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.

And then at the same time, when they were looking at the pelvis, and this caused a big stir at the meeting, so there's been this idea that Lucy's species, you know, the changes that you get in the pelvis from the last common ancestor of humans and chimps were to, sort of, make us good at upright walking; and then further changes to the pelvis that you see in the evolution of our genus which will accommodate babies with larger brains.