Sentences with phrase «longer than modern humans»

That ice core record now extends back 800,000 years, which is about 4x longer than modern humans have existed.

Not exact matches

For instance, recent research on the sleep habits of hunter gatherer bands living much like our long - ago ancestors did found modern humans actually don't get much less sleep than our tribal forebears.

Not only does this suggest modern humans might have been stepping tentatively into Europe and getting friendly with Neanderthals long before the wave of migration that led to today's population, it shows Neanderthals were more diverse than we thought.

Rather than a fall from a pristine state, modern science sees the human race arising from a long struggle characterized by natural selection and survival of the fittest.

That was in the early»70s, when with long hair, bobbles, bangles and beads and a gleam of communitarian utopianism in my eyes, I finally found my way into the fourth century treatise by Nemesius, peri phuseos anthropon («On the Nature of the Human»), where it at length dawned on me that ancient wisdom could be the basis for a deeper critique of modern narcissistic individualism than I had yet seen.

And recent finds in Africa have pushed back the start date for our species» long love affair with the material, hinting that modern human cognition may have developed much earlier than we thought.

From this study [subscription required], Zollikofer concludes that Neanderthal mothers may have had their first child, on average, when they were a year or two older than modern humans and that their time between pregnancies was probably longer.

They found that Flores Man's shoulders were hunched slightly more forward than in modern humans, and the extraordinarily short legs ended in long feet.

Suppose we set up a radio broadcast for aliens to hear, and suppose we could keep the transmitter going for 100,000 years — far longer than civilizations have existed, nearly as long as modern humans have.

Now, the findings by members of the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group demonstrate that modern humans have dwelt in this territory for far longer than previously thought.

And based on the fact that these ancient human bones were found in Morocco — nowhere near the «Garden of Eden» in East Africa where we've long assumed modern humans evolved, and from which they dispersed — it also means that our origins are probably much more complicated than we assumed, geographically speaking.

Recent finds at Willendorf in Austria reveal that modern humans were living in cool steppe - like conditions some 43,500 years ago — and that their presence overlapped with that of Neanderthals for far longer than we thought.

«This greater genetic diversity in Africa has long been considered part of the justification to consider Africa as having a longer history for modern humans than Asia,» Bae said.

However, the phrase «when you go black you never go back» still persists within the modern American society signifying that racism is a human vice that is going to take a little longer than anticipated to eliminate.

Although canines and humans have a long history together, it may be that the features of the modern world make their role more crucial than ever in improving our lives!

You're not doing the future any favors by leaving these piles of material that will be toxic for longer than anatomically modern humans have existed, either.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»