Sentences with phrase «modern humans are indeed»

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In any event, the actual answer to your query will be lost on you, but apes and humans had a common ancestor that was indeed more like modern apes in many ways (especially with respect to cognitive development), but identical to no modern species.

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

Indeed, most cultures in human history have generated no such marvel as the modern scientific movement, and even in our own culture, scientifically oriented as it is supposed to be, most people accept the benefits of technology and use the vocabulary of science but do not in fact choose to abide by the disciplines that alone make scientific productivity possible.

Or, to put it in other terms, the boundary between the ancient world and the modern is to be traced, not in the Aegean or the middle Mediterranean, but in the pages of the Old Testament, where we find revealed attainments in the realms of thought, facility in literary expression, profound religious insights, and standards of individual and social ethics, all of which are intimately of the modern world because, indeed, they have been of the vital motivating forces which made our world of the human spirit.

Indeed, it is only modern physiology that has fully identified the various organs or sub-systems which exist within the human body.

Indeed, one of the failures in much contemporary explanation of human life — as, for example, by some of our modern secular sociologists — is precisely at this point.

«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history of religions, 4 Ricoeur is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible of the interpretation of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts of texts in which human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious grounds of hope.

To take control of them is, we must admit, part of the Human Genome Initiative — indeed, still more, part of the modern project whose «legitimacy» and «curiosity» have been defended by Hans Blumenberg in his provocative (if Teutonic) book The Legitimacy of the Modermodern project whose «legitimacy» and «curiosity» have been defended by Hans Blumenberg in his provocative (if Teutonic) book The Legitimacy of the ModernModern Age.

Indeed, I am shocked to the core to note that the hybridization of the wheat by human intervention has caused the wheat to be so deconstructed that the property of the modern wheat actually caused more harm than good to the human body.

«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression is that interbreeding with archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.

Indeed, at the Grotte du Renne, Leroi - Gourhan found about 30 Neandertal teeth in the Châtelperronian levels, which can be distinguished from modern human teeth based on the size and shape of their cusps and other features.

Indeed, the evidence from Misliya is consistent with recent suggestions based on ancient DNA for an earlier migration, prior to 220,000 years ago, of modern humans out of Africa.

Intriguing new research has indeed shown that it's possible human metabolic rates are more evolutionary in origin than a reflection of our modern lifestyles — confirming that what you choose to eat could be the most important factor in your risk of becoming overweight or obese.

As I stated earlier, unfortunately these toxins are ubiquitous to living on planet earth nowadays, indeed fire - retardant chemicals and the like were discovered in the umbilical cords of Inuit tribespeople in pristine Alaska, so you can only imagine the damage modern living does to the human body.

But indeed, I'd argue that Rob Zombie's film is a more accurate representation of what it means to be a human being in our modern era, because we still feel dread, fear, pain and love.

While part of the scientific discussion at the time of the amount of cooling is portrayed in your video, the most recent studies, including by myself, with modern computer models show that indeed even the current reduced American and Russian nuclear arsenals can still produce nuclear winter, threatening the entire human race with starvation.

Again, modern imaging methods are enabling this information to be translated to the developing human brain (27), and indeed, imaging with neuropsychology is an area where rapid progress is being made and needs to be made to translate the growing basic neuroscience knowledge of mechanisms into clinical relevance and application.