Sentences with phrase «long prehistory»

Origins from a Genetic Perspective Until recent discoveries in molecular genetics, it has often been the belief that the domestic dog was descended from the wolf, because of a long prehistory where domestic dogs and the gray wolf were not all that different in outward physical characteristics.

Until recent discoveries in molecular genetics, it has often been the belief that the domestic dog was descended from the wolf, because of a long prehistory where domestic dogs and the gray wolf were not all that different in outward physical characteristics.

Not exact matches

Many of the religious conflicts we read about in the newspapers have prehistories and antecedents that need to be traced over a period of several decades or longer, and many represent reactions and counterreactions to other movements both in the same society and in the larger international system.

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

Epigenetic data spanning a much longer interval in human prehistory could reveal that the process was key to adapting quickly to a wide range of environmental conditions during the Pleistocene.

Volk: Yeah, so Icille was released into Earth's biosphere at the same time Dave was, from a limestone, from the calcium carbonate of a limestone cliff in the Dordogne valley of southern France about the same time that we have the earliest, very earliest cave art in the human prehistory; but Icille didn't last very long in the biosphere, she got trapped in this ice core.

Archaeologists have long considered the advent of the Levallois method of making stone tools — a strategy for obtaining broad, thin, sharp flakes from a chunk of stone called a core — to be a significant development in human prehistory.

I expect that the next 25 years will see legitimate scientific studies of long - distance cross-cultural contacts, with impacts such as technology and disease that explain much that is currently murky in prehistory.

The study also reaffirms Aborigines» deep roots and long isolation in Australia, echoing Aboriginal views of their prehistory.

In the long run, Sherwood Lollar hopes to find a whole series of these enclosed water worlds, each from a different period in Earth's prehistory.

Since prehistory, the Himalayan mountain range has presented a formidable barrier to population migration, while at the same time its transverse valleys have long served as conduits for trade and exchange.

Long, tall, solid in appearance, its mere size is reassuring — although it falls short of the proportions reached by monster Chryslers of prehistory.

The Clay Series has been a long - time project for which she has done extensive research into the archaeology and prehistory of the Tucson Basin and the history of the the Spanish entrada into Southwestern United States.

Many challenges await players in this epic quest to save the planet's future, as long - lost secrets are revealed through time travel to different eras including the present, middle ages, the future, prehistory and ancient times.

African Art Against the State highlights the long and extraordinary history of activism, intervention, and resistance that has characterized a great deal of African art - making from prehistory to the present.

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY»S OUTDOOR ART has prehistory in the American Earthworks of artists like Michael Heizer and Robert Smithson and in the more delicate strain of land art made by Goldsworthy's British compatriots, notably Richard Long and Hamish Fulton.