Sentences with phrase «like human fossil»

«Carbon release back then looked a lot like human fossil - fuel emissions today, so we might learn a lot about the future from changes in climate, plants, and animal communities 55.5 million years ago.»

Not exact matches

Rick, we have fossils from different human species over the periods of millions of years and they gradually become more and more like what we're like today.

darwinian evolution has yet to provide any solid evidence for sequential transitional fossils, instead it says «Oh look heres what a chimp looks like and heres what a human looks like,,, they look similiar therefore we must have come from them!»

Brand New New fossils bringing «Hobbit humans» to life New bones attributed to Ho - mo floresiensis — aka the «Hobbit Human» — along with other recent findings, are helping to reveal what members of this species looked like, how they behaved and their origins.

This is not a «human - like» fossil.

Many vestigial structures also exist, showing links back to evolutionary history, like hind limbs on snake fossils, pelvises on modern whales, wings on flightless birds, and tails and extra ribs on humans.

There are many transitional fossils: reptiles to birds (like Sinosauropteryx, Caudipteryx, Protarchaeopteryx), mammal to whale fossils (whale fossils have been found with legs, like Rodhocetus and Basilosaurus), and yes, even ape - to - human fossils (like Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus).

why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.

Given the knowledge that they are crapping in their own habitat with their carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning on Earth, I'd like to think humans have gained an evolutionary advantage which canines lack.

The same location has yielded other fossil signposts in the meandering path to fully modern humans, including a 4.5 million - year - old jaw of a more ape - like species, Ardipithecus ramidus.

Two 9.7 - million - year - old fossil teeth found in Germany probably belong to a primitive primate and something like a deer, not an early human ancestor as has been reported

Flo is «one of the most complete fossils found anywhere until you get to true burials, like in Neanderthals and early modern humans,» says Jungers, who has been closely involved in Homo floresiensis research.

The team's data revealed that the mtDNA was like that of modern humans and different from that of Neandertals, but critics argued that the samples may have been contaminated with modern human DNA when an undetermined number of people handled the fossils.

The fossil record and modern genetic analysis suggest that humans and all other living species are descended from bacteria - like microbes that first appeared about 4 billion years ago.

More recent fossil discoveries in the same region, including the iconic 3.7 million year old Laetoli footprints from Tanzania which show human - like feet and upright locomotion, have cemented the idea that hominins (early members of the human lineage) not only originated in Africa but remained isolated there for several million years before dispersing to Europe and Asia.

Fossil bones and stone tools can tell us a lot about human evolution, but certain dynamic behaviours of our fossil ancestors — things like how they moved and how individuals interacted with one another — are incredibly difficult to deduce from these traditional forms of paleoanthropologicalFossil bones and stone tools can tell us a lot about human evolution, but certain dynamic behaviours of our fossil ancestors — things like how they moved and how individuals interacted with one another — are incredibly difficult to deduce from these traditional forms of paleoanthropologicalfossil ancestors — things like how they moved and how individuals interacted with one another — are incredibly difficult to deduce from these traditional forms of paleoanthropological data.

Rather than saying that something like the human eye is too complicated to understand, so a supernatural intrusion must have enabled it, we are saying that it is possible because of a scientific theory that has been under development for 150 years and has been reinforced by the fossil record and now by the molecular record.

That molecule — released by the gigaton from human activities like fossil fuel burning and clearing forests — causes the bulk of global warming.

Considering that human activity has indirectly brought together species through planetary warming and increased fossil fuel emissions, the question on the minds of many biologists like Arnold is whether humans should play a role in preventing hybridization like this.

These Ardipithecus fossils were the earliest ancestor of humans after they diverged from the main ape lineage of the primate family tree, neither ape - like nor chimp - like, yet not human either.

So the world of paleoanthropology, the search for human fossil remains — it is like harder than ever right now.

His team found distinct cellular structures inside the fossils characteristic of red algae, which are eukaryotic, meaning they have complex cells, like plants and humans.

According to fossil evidence, small primates — a group of mammals that includes humans and our closest monkey relatives — first arrived in Jamaica during the Miocene (23 million to 25 million years ago), probably on mats of vegetation that can form during major weather events, like hurricanes, that could have carried them from the American mainland.

The fossils form such a neatly graded series, getting less and less ape - like and more and more human as they get closer in time to the present, that the most earnest creationist can do little more than muddy the waters by inflating and distorting the existence of points of disagreement between specialists, or trying to revive long since discredited Homo sapiens specimens once claimed to have been from extremely ancient deposits.

The fossil skull found, nicknamed Toumai is as old as any hominid fossil found to date, yet its features appear much more human - like than those of other contenders for title of human ancestor.

Later, in the 60s, when they found hominin fossils that looked more like later humans than the Australopithecines, in association with those Oldowan tools, they assigned them to a new species: Homo habilis or handy man.

Today, photosynthesis is considered «the most important chemical reaction on earth», providing food for humans and animals, releasing oxygen for them to breathe — and millions of years later, this process provides fossil fuel in the form of oil, coal and natural gas, as Michel likes to point out.

Tattersall said, «Paleoanthropologists are having a hard time letting go of the old idea that human evolution was a linear process, but fossils like this one from Dmanisi are making it ever clearer that hominid history has been one of diversity and evolutionary experimentation with the hominid potential.»

The remaining 39 billion tons of annual human - made CO2 emissions come from other activities like burning fossil fuels in power plants and vehicles and producing concrete.

98 % of actual climate scientists (a distinction Dr. Willie Soon does not earn) agree that global warming is real and primarily drive by humans burning fossil fuels like coal and oil.

The fossils of the creature, named after the Rising Star cave system in which they were discovered — «naledi» means «star» in the local Sesotho language — paint the picture of an ancient hominin that possessed a mixture of human and ape - like traits.

Because the face and teeth resembled those of later human ancestors, the scientists said that the fossils were those of a human - like, or hominid, species — even though the skull could hold only a chimp - sized brain.

Humans and ancient apes looked a lot alike 7 million years ago, they say, and some features of the fossil skull are more ape - like than human - like.

But there can be too much of a good thing: In the last 200 years, humans have added a lot of extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas to produce energy.

After the Piltdown fraud was exposed, the australopithecines came into favour as a transitional form linking an ape - like common - ancestor to human beings, and this link was further strengthened by later finds of both erectus and australopithecine fossils, mainly in East and South.

On the other hand fossil OH 62 proves that «habilis ``, far from being Homo - like, was small and ape - like - these cases were the very opposite of what evolution theory predicted and expected.103 Even though the brain size of WT 15000 was smaller than most modern humans, it was still larger than quite a few people living today.

In September 1890, his workers found a human, or human - like, fossil at Koedoeng Broeboes.

The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape skull reveals what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like.

Paleoanthropologists like Haile - Selassie study ancient humans and their ancestors, based on fossils and cultural artifacts or symbols that they left behind.

The limestone caves, once a marshy wetland supporting a huge diversity of plant life and animals, have expelled an impressive quantity of ancient mammal remains and fossil evidence of an early human - like primate ancestor.

I suggest look at the fossil sequences of human ancestors from early apes to australopithicus, homo erectus and homo habilis to homo sapiens, and notice how they morph one into the other quite smoothly, all explained by Darwinian evolution, while with respect the old testament verision is clearly a creation myth like you find in early greek and roman culture etc, an imaginative guess, and very implausible in light of our current understanding of things.

Like Tommy Lee Jones drills around Texas, human being are drilling around world and want to use up last drop of fossil fuel, emit dazens billion tons of greenhouse gas, pollute all the rivers of world, raise over several degree temperature, melt away all of Arctic ice.

The human fossil fuel CO2 emissions spike is more like an asteroid impact than the slow degassing of CO2 from metamorphic decarbonization of carbonate rocks at subduction zones by the slow grinding away of plate tectonics.

Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.

What has happened, of course, is that we humans broke into a wonderful (it seemed so at the time) energy storage bank, the buried coal, oil, and gas, and started spending fossil energy like there was no tomorrow.

Human alteration of environments produces multiple effects, some advantageous to societies, such as enhanced food production, and some detrimental, like environmental pollution with toxic chemicals, excess nutrients and carbon emissions from fossil fuels, and the loss of wildlife and their habitats.

Ideally, research should focus primarily on cutting down the impact of humanity, like better recycling, abandoning fossil fuels, and projects to reduce human overbreeding.

I see parallels between some of the statement is your quote and James Hansen's statements that there is a risk the oceans will evaporate and Earth will get an atmosphere like Venus unless humans stop their evil ways and stop burning evil fossil fuels — and, if we don't stop burning fossil fuels within the next few years it'll be too late (he made this statement about a decade ago!).

Seems like Hoskins confused fossil fuel contributions with total anthropogenic contributions, 40 % with 64 %, and a source saying more than twice the total increase had been emitted by humans with one that said less than half.

Burning fossil fuels, creating emissions through industrial agriculture and destroying «carbon sinks» like wetlands and forests that sequester carbon are already affecting the planet in many ways detrimental to the health and survival of humans and other life.