Sentences with phrase «modern humans are believed»

* Because modern humans are believed to have originated in Africa, if Neandertals diverged from modern humans before present - day populations began to differentiate, one would expect Neandertal sequences to match sequences from non-Africans and Africans to the same extent.

A great deal when his DNA profile is one of the «earliest diverged» — oldest in genetic terms — found to - date in a region where modern humans are believed to have originated roughly 200,000 years ago.

Not exact matches

After several years of research, in 2011 De Brouwer launched Scanadu, a start - up he believes can be instrumental in solving one of modern health care's major flaws: that humans rely too heavily on the expertise of doctors and not nearly enough on data.

I agree with your post, Mr. Stephens — insofar as I believe that a cobbled - together patchwork of Bronze Age myths that sanction slavery, genocide, human sacrifice, and child murder should not be arbitrarily invoked as the sole determinate for notions of morality in the modern world.

I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something long repressed by our modern culture: life itself is a story.

To believe that the human brain happened by itself (over any amount of time)... considering the complexity of our brains compared to the modern computer is a little absurd.

Moderns have found Augustine's transcendent basis for temporal meaning incredible, and have believed instead that time is meaningful because the human powers of science, reason and morals will progressively lead toward a perfection that can not be lost.

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

He argued doggedly against «democratism,» the idea that majorities are always right, because he believed that democracy was the characteristically modern form of political idolatry, based on a flattery of fallen human nature.

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.

And then there were bishops like Karol Wojtyła of Kraków, who grasped that the dignity of the human person was the battleground on which «the Church in the modern world» was contesting with various dangerous forces for the human future; who thought that coercion of consciences violated that human dignity; and who believed that the act of faith must be free if it is to be true, because the God of the Bible wants to be adored by people who freely choose to do so.

D'Arcy believes that this analysis of the two loves can encompass the complexity in the human self which has been exposed by modern existentialism.

Modern day scholars were not around to hear Jesus speaking and so it is a question as to whether you believe in the power of God to convey his story through human conduits (writers and translators of the Bible).

I suppose what the phrase denotes is the modern culture which gives great emphasis on human being as a creator of culture and of history out of nature and which also believes that human being and history require no transcendent reference to a Divine Creator or a Divine Redeemer from self - alienation to bring about the realization of the community of love which is the ultimate destiny of humanity.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

The Sumerians believed that beings came from the sky and mixed their genetic DNA with apes to produce the modern day human beings.

I had always believed that the vitality of religion after the rise of modern science, which tended to discredit the legends of religious history, was due to the simple fact that faith in an incomprehensible divine source of order was an indispensable bearer of the human trust in life, despite the evils of nature and the incongruities of history.

That is, I believe, bad philosophy — and incompatible with the basic principles of our civilization and polity; but at least it does not rely on denying basic facts known to anyone who has taken the trouble to acquaint himself or herself with modern human embryology and developmental biology.

This massive environmental change is believed to have created population bottlenecks in the various species that existed at the time; this in turn accelerated differentiation of the isolated human populations, eventually leading to the extinction of all the other human species except for the branch that became modern humans.

I always suspected that Neandertals and anatomically modern humans interbred, based on a simple observation: humans are the most sexual of all the primates, willing and able to do it just about anywhere, anytime, with anyone (and even with other species if the Kinsey report is to be believed in its findings about farmhands and their animal charges).

«I can't believe that it is purely coincidence, based on what else we know happens when modern humans enter a new area,» says Richard Roberts, a geochronologist at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Hublin, who accepts that Neandertals were cognitively sophisticated but believes their cultural achievements fell short of modern humans», is impatient with what he sees as Zilhão's absolutism.

This may not be the first appearance of the modern human hand, but we believe that it is close to the origin, given that we do not see this anatomy in any human fossils older than 1.8 million years.

I mean there were for a long time, for many decades, scientists believe that Neandertals were fundamentally different from modern humans in the way that they behaved.

«That modern secular individuals are prone to cling on to beliefs about science, in the same way that their ancestors turned to the gods,» they write in their paper, «carries no judgment on the value of science as a method but simply highlights the human motivation to believe.»

One group is believed to represent early, fully modern humans (Homo sapiens), our immediate evolutionary ancestors.

[3] At the time of the Piltdown «discovery,» human ancestors had been found only in Europe, and there was substantial national pride at stake in believing Britain to be birthplace of modern humans, rather than southern Africa.

The modern human lineage is believed to have evolved from a line of gracile, or lightly built, australopithecines that goes back some 4 million years.

As such, they are either a demonstration of independent invention by Neandertals or an indication that modern humans started influencing European Neandertals much earlier than previously believed.

The fact is that one school of thought («Regional Continuity») believes that all Middle Pleistocene Homo were really a genetic continuum, ancestral as a whole to modern humans; another («Replacement») believes that only the African ones were our ancestors, and the others more or less died out, replaced by the newcomers from Africa.

The research also rebutted the conventional «survival of the fittest» concept, showing there was hardly any reason to believe that Neanderthals were genetically inferior to modern humans and failed to make it.

Professor Stringer believes it is because there may have been only a fleeting encounter as modern humans migrated through South - East Asia and then on to Melanesia.

As for what happened to the Neanderthals, some researchers believe that they were simply absorbed into the modern human population.

Amazingly, a century after scientists knew otherwise, most creationists still believe that Neandertals were merely modern humans, deformed by diseases such as rickets, arthritis or syphilis.

Parker implies most scientists believed that OH 5 was a human ancestor and a tool user, and did so until 1972 when Richard Leakey found modern human bones buried at a deeper level.

They also considered the timeline of when this Neanderthal DNA entered the Homo sapiens lineage and discovered it happened about 50,000 years ago, around the time modern humans and Neanderthals are believed to have mated.

Both believe they've found a path to health and happiness, and many (though certainly not all) in each camp believe they're living a life that is more natural than the one lived by most humans in the modern world.

The basis for the Paleo diet is that adherents believe that humans evolved into modern humans as hunter - gatherers.

The earliest modern humans inhabiting Portugal are believed to have been Paleolithic peoples that may have arrived in the Iberian Peninsula as early as 35,000 to 40,000 years ago.

But despite recognizing the increasing fragmentation and lack of meaning within society during this period, «modern artists» still believed that works of art could provide the answer - art could do what other human institutions couldn't do - and provide the coherence and meaning which had been lost.