Sentences with phrase «modern human capacity»

«Our data show this process was ongoing two and a half million years ago, which allows us to consider a very drawn - out and gradual evolution of the modern human capacity for language and suggests simple «proto - languages» might be older than we previously thought,» Morgan added.

The lawmaker decried the situation that Nigeria was still grappling with developing its human resources while other nations have moved ahead in modern human capacity building.

Not exact matches

Fiber optics technology is a marvel of human ingenuity, not to mention physics and design, and with it comes high - capacity digital communications for a modern age.

The unknowability of the Commandments lies in the epistemological terra incognita of modern and postmodern thought, which denies a human capacity to know anything with certainty in ethics or morality.

Jesus expresses no conception of a human ideal, no thought of a development of human capacities, no idea of something valuable in man as such, no conception of the spirit in the modern sense.

The failures and vast human costs of modern «salvation myths» are now well known, as is the capacity of democratic capitalism to raise up the poor, protect human rights, and allow for unprecedented freedom of thought and action.

Modern scholarship has revealed not only how much our capacity to be human depends on language and culture but also the extent to which all language (and particularly religious language) is symbolic.

He also rejects the views of those who say that God is beyond the capacity of human expression or that modern man is incapable of believing in God.

In modern philosophy, the notion of «person» has served as a formal gathering place for the substantive qualities and capacities that make us uniquely human.

his book Religion in the Secular City, «In our day while the fundamentalists attack all that is wrong with the modern soul, they almost never mention the advent of nuclear weapons with their capacity to end human life on the globe.

Whatever their differences, the greatest of modern Italian novelists — Manzoni, Verga, Moravia, Silone, Lampedusa — share a fundamental pessimism about the human capacity to alter social institutions.

Central to Rollins» thesis is the rejection of the modern notion that humans have the capacity to grasp objective universal truth.

For comparison, modern humans have a brain capacity of around 1,350 cubic centimeters.

Scientists are particularly curious about differences in brain size, since adult Neandertals tend to have a cranial capacity of about 1,500 cubic centimeters and modern day humans have a cranial capacity of about 1,350 cubic centimeters.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

Some populations migrate 2,500 km each autumn from Svalbard to Scotland, yet in the run up to migration they fly for only a few minutes each day — short bursts of flight that perhaps mirror the modern high - intensity training (HIT) regimes human athletes use to boost maximal aerobic capacity.

Whether you grow up as a hunter - gatherer in Africa or a modern - day human in Sarasota or a baby lemur in the forest, you seem to have these simple capacities.

The capacity to engage in shared tasks such as hunting large game and building cities may be what separated modern humans from our primate cousins

«By this time, modern humans are assumed to have the same mental capacities as today,» she says.

The Upper Paleolithic, with its burgeoning numbers of grandparents, allowed modern human behavior — the capacity for which arose long beforehand — to finally find a firm foothold.

These highly successful early bipedal hominins such as Ardipithecus ramidus or Australopithecus afarensis, were nevertheless relatively small - brained, with a cranial capacity of about 450cm3 compared with modern humans with over 1,500 cm3.

It's cranial capacity was the smallest ever recorded in an adult early human, and at 410 cc it was not much larger than that of a modern chimpanzee.

As most of the adult cranial capacity is reached by age 10 or 11, it is likely that the adult ECV of WT 15000 would be no more than about 1000 - 1050cc, which is still well within the modern human range of about 800 - 2000cc.19 On the same page Jue points out that a brain capacity of 1400cc applies to the Vertesszöllos erectus specimen which is dated at around 350kya (kiloyears ago = thousands of years).

Lubenow says (pp.127 - 8) that «Modern humans have a cranial capacity range from about 700 cc all the way to up to about 2200 cc.»

Dan Dediu, from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands, published a review article earlier this year suggesting that Neanderthals and modern humans shared a similar capacity for language.

Gould reexamined Morton's data on cranial capacity variation in modern human populations and concluded that Morton had selectively reported data (see Box 1), manipulated sample compositions (see Box 2), made analytical errors, and mismeasured skulls in order to support his a priori views on intelligence differences between human groups.

Inviting a gaggle of artists to design these may seem a superficial bit of outmoded British art boosting, but in reality it is a romantic restatement of the Olympic ideal, inviting artists to imagine the forces of human effort and natural capacity that have always made sport a theme for modern art (think of cubist portraits of cyclists and Picasso's beach ball scenes).

That is, the earliest anatomically modern humans had the cognitive capacity for behavioral modernity when their fossils first appeared in the record.