Sentences with phrase «like the apes of»

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Most people think of the fight - flight reflex as a binary action we are either relaxed or we are running like a spotted assed ape.

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).

Several Hollywood films have used the ruinous landscape to their advantage, like «Jurassic World» and «Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.»

There are some discreditable reasons: like Victorians offended by the suggestion that they were descended from apes, some humanists imagine that their dignity is threatened when human society is represented as the moral equivalent of a dish on a turntable.

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 species had] a mixture of ape - like and human - like features.

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.

Keith / Wipeout... oh dear you both sound like creationists, lots of talk of monkeys and apes..

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.

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.

The field of evolutionary psychology is demonstrating great - ape behavior so similar to human behavior that even some of our cherished «human» attributes like peacemaking and expressions of selflessness might be attributed to our animal selves.

«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.»

We, you included) are descendants of an ape like animal.

Capitalist — well, the problem with you people who believe the «six days and a talking snake» theory of terrestrial biological origins is you throw out a ridiculous comment like «well, if men came from apes, why are there still apes» then, when challanged, claim the responder is being elitist.

It is very, very foolish to believe we came from nothing or from a cosmic soup or from a big bang or some sort of ape like «creature», which if it was a creature is because it was created.

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.

So do you after that you prefer to be Zero created by chance looking like Ape developed until today's Mankind or rather be God creation created at the best of looks and abilities.

And of course there are millions who really, really act, behave and conduct themselves, like if they really are the offspring of some ape like creatures.

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

You believe that you are the offspring of man, we believe we are the offspring of man like ape beings, you believe you will change into another being, we believe we will evolve into something else.

Our species is like the other higher animals, apes and whales especially, except for this linguistic capacity and the ability to use symbols to a degree vastly beyond the capacity of other planetary animals.

Elizabeth Scalia doubts that women should become more like men: The sexual revolution promise that women could «have it all» has always been oddly paradoxical: It encouraged women to find their best selves by aping men and conforming to traditionally male valuations of worth and....

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.

works both ways bro I can't count the number of times I've had scripture quoted at me as if it would convert me or the number of times people have said inane things like «why are there still apes if we evolved from them» or any BS about missing links or transitional fossils.

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.

Or ogling the dangerously free - form whipped - cream quenelles from Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson's classic Tartine book and then — since you have a quart container of whipped cream and a spoon, like, right there — aping the style on a slice of parchment paper.

Perhaps a latter - day Charlton Heston, pursued by jackbooted apes on horseback, will stumble on the statue of MJ that stood outside the United Center — right arm rising out of the sand of some beach, basketball held high, like Lady Liberty's lamp: The only relic remaining of a long - lost civilization.

It would be nice to imagine Mark Emmert — the man who earns $ 1.6 million a year to slap the controls of the NCAA around like an ape frantically smashing the buttons of a nuclear missile silo — as someone competent.

My locks evolved into a very chicken like hair - do, my natural deodorant left me smelling like an ape and instead of counting my (three) blessings, I fell asleep nightly wondering what did I do wrong.

Honestly to me it seems like this attitude of rejecting APing on «feminist» principles just indicates how deeply some women have internalized the misogynist surrounding them.

Winston Churchill's prediction that Spain will take back control of Gibraltar when all the barbary apes have left doesn't seem like it's about to happen.

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.

When Boris Johnson was first handed editorship of the Spectator magazine, his friend and biographer Andrew Gimson famously commented that it was like «entrusting a Ming vase to an ape.»

We assume that the common ancestor of chimps and humans, like all of the non-human apes, had a full coat.

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.

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.

Instead, it looks increasingly like a number of ape - like creatures existed a few million years back and interbred to produce a messy collection of species, from which we eventually emerged.

When Skinner and his colleagues looked at the metacarpals of early human species and neanderthals — who also used stone flakes for tasks like scraping and butchering — they found bone ends that were shaped like modern human bones, and unlike ape bones.

Its feet functioned only partly like those of apes and much more like those of living monkeys and early apes such as Proconsul (which lived more than 15 million years ago).

Assuming some variant of a chimpanzee - like ape ancestry, the bipedality of Au.

ramidus is that this last common ancestor had limb proportions more like those of monkeys than apes.