Sentences with phrase «like the ape in»

Their bus windows were blacked out, so the bus looked like the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, just this black blob on four wheels, and people were running, like the apes in the movie, just wanting to touch it.

Any job (high - paid, low paid, it does» t matter) will make you feel like the ape in the suit if there's no cultural fit, if there's no alignement between you, the company and the position you occupy, if there's no higher purpose or sense of mission behind it.

Not exact matches

Microsoft, for example, has reduced itself to heckling Google with two campaigns: «Scroogled,» about the alleged evils of Google's e-mail advertising policy (something that consumers have met with a shrug ever since Gmail's introduction nearly a decade ago); and the «Bing It On Challenge,» in which people on the street pick the search results they like best (which apes the old Pepsi Challenge — a campaign that defined Pepsi by what it isn't, and thus condemned it to being Coke's bridesmaid forever).

I am just pointing out that IF there were a god with even sort of the resume Jehovah has been said to have, ie omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent, and if this god somehow cranked out a human son, that son wouldn't act like the drunken alpha ape described in Revelations.

Further it undermines our Christian belief in original sin — as described by Paul — by replacing our original parents — Adam and Eve — with some unsubstantiated notion of descending from ape - like creatures in Africa.

and there has yet to be definitive proof of ape evolving into human if you have it please by all means post it the world would like to see it, oh and you forgot to put in how evolution has as many gaps as any religion like Genesis Park describes a number of images drawn by Neanderthals and by humans in the Middle East which resemble dinosaurs.

The scientists had sculptured an entire ape - like skeleton from information they found in one tooth.

Don't misunderstand me; some evolutionists (particularly some of the neo-atheists like Richard Dawkins, who argues in his new book people who don't believe in evolution are on the same level as Holocaust deniers) have gone ape over their theory (forgive the pun) to the point that they seem to forget it is a theory, and refer to it as if it is an undeniable scientific fact.

In any event, the actual answer to your query will be lost on you, but apes and humans had a common ancestor that was indeed more like modern apes in many ways (especially with respect to cognitive development), but identical to no modern specieIn any event, the actual answer to your query will be lost on you, but apes and humans had a common ancestor that was indeed more like modern apes in many ways (especially with respect to cognitive development), but identical to no modern speciein many ways (especially with respect to cognitive development), but identical to no modern species.

While I think religion serves a great purpose to bring man from acting like apes, I do not think man is ready to move beyond religion in this day an age.

if its the human species... we are but a single branch of primates in the great ape family... Like gorillas and orangutans — we are the product of an evolutionary chain that included compet itors like Cro magnon, and Neanderthal — just like any other animal specLike gorillas and orangutans — we are the product of an evolutionary chain that included compet itors like Cro magnon, and Neanderthal — just like any other animal speclike Cro magnon, and Neanderthal — just like any other animal speclike any other animal species.

They in turn stem from creatures who were much more like apes, who in turn seem to have come from monkey - like beings.

However, those of us concerned to find such relationships between distinct fields should heed the cautious word of Cambridge physicist Sir Brian Pippard when he says that each field thrives by virtue of its own methods and not by aping those of others: «The fabric of knowledge has not been woven as a seamless robe but pieced together like a patchwork quilt, and we are still in the position of being able to appreciate the design in individual pieces much more clearly than the way they are put together» (Pippard, 95 - 96).

Much opposition to the concept of evolution in the nineteenth century derived from a revulsion against the idea that humans were descended from ape - like animals long ago.

At this point he «is seeking, amid the dim recesses of his ape - like consciousness and beyond the reach of dictionary language, for the premises implicit in all reasoning.

«In order that primeval men, or the ape - like progenitors of man, should have become social,» Darwin reasoned, «they must have acquired the same instinctive feelings which impel other animals to live in a body.&raquIn order that primeval men, or the ape - like progenitors of man, should have become social,» Darwin reasoned, «they must have acquired the same instinctive feelings which impel other animals to live in a body.&raquin a body.»

Like the one I had when I took a Catholic Philosophy course — espousing that r - ape is less of a sin than mas - turbation, because at least r - ape can result in a pregnancy.

But if talking apes looks anything like what we've seen in the movies then we are fine with this scientific development taking as long as possible.

The jaws of the Neanderthal skull copies are illustrated in a way that imply an ape like jaw that protrudes.

Much of the opposition to the idea of evolution in the nineteenth century derived from a revulsion against the idea that humans were descended from ape - like creatures long ago.

If you committed one of the atheistic mortal sins, like believing a proposition without proof, Galapagor, the man - ape overseer of the Atheist Underworld, may leave your essence as a trilobite deep in the fossil layer.

Oddly enough, here in America, we get to choose and aren't you going to be crying in Sacrament meeting when your silly Romney with the Ape - like arms (I mean look at the picture!

As much as you hate to admit we're a divergent of some form of ape like specie, Atheists like myself are dumbfounded as to how you can believe in such BS from the bible.

People don't like Peter Mandelson or his methods, I'm sure Gordon Brown is eager to offload him and his spin which in the 1980's and first half of the 1990's helped Labour but really became the news and was not popular and hastened the fall in Labour support from 1997 to 2003, with the possible exception of David Laws these are all yesterdays men and David Cameron is severely mistaken if he thinks he can win by aping Tony Blair.

Lucy Modern humans are descended from the ape - like Australopithecus, which lived in Africa.

He points out that Lordkipanidze's analysis suggests even the much more ape - like hominins in the genus Australopithecus belong to the H. erectus group.

He belongs to the species Australopithecus sediba, has a mix of ape - like and human - like features, and was named «Answer» by a 17 - year - old South African student in a competition.

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.

That DNA molecule happens to reside in a developing egg cell within an ape - like animal living in Africa.

The Yeti or Abominable Snowman — a mysterious, ape - like creature said to inhabit the high mountains of Asia — looms large in the mythology of Nepal and Tibet.

For more than a million years their australopithecine predecessors — Lucy and her kind, who walked upright like us yet still possessed the stubby legs, tree - climbing hands and small brains of their ape forebears — had thrived in and around the continent's forests and woodlands.

Wrangham aimed to fill a gap in the story of how early hominins like Australopithecus — essentially, apes that walked upright — evolved into modern Homo sapiens.

ramidus shows that none of these ape - like changes were present in the last common ancestor of African apes and humans.

In contrast, modern apes like gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos walk on their knuckles, an adaptation that was always assumed to be ancient.

For large - brained mammals like apes that engage in complex social interactions this is relatively straightforward.

Chimpanzees, like most apes, live in male - dominated societies and use violence to maintain their social status and coerce females into mating.

afarensis had forelimbs that were ape - like, including long, curved fingers used to forage daily in the arboreal canopy, and that its immediate ancestors must have knuckle - walked.

The researchers argue for its hominid status partly because of its lower canine teeth, which in cross section are diamond - shaped like those of later hominids rather than V - shaped like those of apes.

The study shows that great apes, like humans, can store and retrieve precise information in their long - term memories, and anticipate impending events, a cognitive skill that likely helps them deal with social intrigue and avoid danger.

Just like us watching for that knife in Psycho, the chimps and bonobos looked to the door where they'd previously seen the ape character emerge, the team reports today in Current Biology.

The footprints are approximately 5.7 million years old and were made at a time when previous research puts our ancestors in Africa — with ape - like feet.

This revealed that 8 per cent of people have some mid-foot flexibility, rather like that seen in tree - dwelling apes (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, doi.org/mmh).

Most Old World monkeys and apes are social, and some species, like the mandrills, can live in groups with up to 800 members, said co-author Jessica Lynch Alfaro, an adjunct assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Anthropology and UCLA's Institute for Society and Genetics.

Reports went viral over the weekend that Herbert Lutz at the Museum of Natural History in Mainz, Germany, had discovered a previously unknown European species of ape that had human - like teeth millions of years before African species did.

Wasps can recognize faces much like many apes do, researchers report online today in Science.

Poached ivory fetches at least $ 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives — great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans — are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.

But in many ways, we're not like other apes: Our brains are at least three times larger, and we produce more babies in shorter intervals — both of which consume more energy.

A 13 million - year - old skull from Kenya, described in August in Nature, hints at what a common ancestor of all living apes (including humans) looked like.

Specifically, would the chimp - like apes who began to evolve into humans between 7 and 5 million years ago still be swinging in their trees?

Our brains produce far more dopamine in these regions than the brains of other primates like apes.