Sentences with phrase «modern humans are still»

Optimal brain and body health is more than making meals and being barefoot — modern humans are still holistic hunter - gatherer - musicians Many lifestyle habits of humans were quite similar for several million years,...

Optimal brain and body health is more than making meals and being barefoot — modern humans are still holistic hunter - gatherer - musicians

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«This is a case of pandering to the very basest of human curiosity,» he told Reuters, expecting a favorable verdict to demonstrate «there is still privacy in the modern world.»

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.)

Still, such theorists also continue, as did Kant himself, the modern natural law tradition, at least in the following way: The duties prescribed by nonteleological liberalism are defined in terms of rights that are prior to any inclusive good; that is, these rights are separated from, and respect for them overrides, any inclusive telos humans might pursue.

«With man, thanks to the extraordinary agglutinative property of thought, she has at last been able to achieve, throughout an entire living group, a total synthesis of which the process is still clearly apparent, if we trouble to look, in the «scaled» structure of the modern human world.

It is a curious fact that while the general culture of contemporary theologians is still markedly literary, rather than scientific, they seem to forget the many lessons concerning the human situation to be learnt from tragedy, whether ancient or modern.

Our modern conviction that human beings and their mentality have evolved through long ages from simpler and still simpler natural forms also suggests that there is some family connection between human experience and the entities of the natural world.

As modern humans were first migrating out of Africa more than 60,000 years ago, Neanderthals and Denisovans were still alive and well in Eurasia.

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.

This represents a uniquely human characteristic that could only develop biologically alongside mother's continuous contact and proximity — as mother's body proves still to be the only environment to which the infant is truly adapted, for which even modern western technology has yet to produce a substitute.

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.

Is that still true for humans when modern medicine and technology have increased everybody's ability to survive?

Malaria, a scourge on human society that still kills more than 400,000 people a year, is often thought to be of more modern origin — ranging from 15,000 to 8 million years old, caused primarily by one genus of protozoa, Plasmodium, and spread by anopheline mosquitoes.

Population geneticist Laurent Excoffier of the University of Bern in Switzerland agrees that Out of Africa is still the most plausible model of modern human origins, noting that the alleged admixture did not continue as moderns moved into Europe.

Although some researchers suspect that earlier hominids, not modern humans, made the stone tools, Marks is hopeful that future digs in Arabia, Iran, and western India will unearth still more evidence of humanity's bold, early route out of Africa.

But for now, the genetics, and even when the genome is published, we still won't know, because so much of the human genome, we don't know what it means functionally; that holds true for modern humans, so of course, it's not going to instantly tell us everything that we want to know about Neandertals.

The Atapuerca team suggests that the bones be reclassified as a new, still unnamed species that was the immediate ancestor of Neandertals, but not modern humans.

More recently, scientists have identified parts of the human genome carrying Neandertal genetic variants, but — in part because Neandertal - derived DNA is so hard to identify and also because of the expense of performing tests for its influence on individuals — scientists still don't fully understand how Neandertal - derived variants influence modern human traits.

The authors should be more circumspect in reporting their results, acknowledging that the stature estimates from modern humans are likely exaggerations, and focus their interpretations on the more appropriate (but still tenuous) australopithecine - based predictions — still with the caveat about the limitations of the data from which the predictor is derived.

The study challenges a long - held assumption that the last common ancestor (or LCA) of humans and apes - the identity of which is still a matter of debate - would have resembled a chimpanzee with hands like modern - day chimps.

Goodman gives the impression modern humans are thought to have evolved from Neandertals about 40,000 years ago, but even if that were true, the statement would still be absurd.

Scientists are still debating whether Homo floresiensis was its own species, or merely a group of diseased modern humans.

As for why the percentage of Neanderthal DNA in some modern humans still appears to be so low, Kelso explained that there was selection against such genes in early modern human populations.

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.

Still, he doubts H. naledi was a direct ancestor of modern humans.

Although Neanderthals had broader bodies than modern humans, he added, their brain to overall body size ratio was still larger than that of our species.

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).

Also, more recent analyses by other researchers seem to indicate that even if ergaster specimens are considered as a different taxon than erectus, the erectus material is still closer to modern humans cladistically.

On the other hand fossil OH 62 proves that «habilis ``, far from being Homo - like, was small and ape - like - these cases were the very opposite of what evolution theory predicted and expected.103 Even though the brain size of WT 15000 was smaller than most modern humans, it was still larger than quite a few people living today.

These have yet to be modelled, but Prof Wroe said they were likely to be very similar to those of modern humans and Neanderthals, so could take back the origins of speech still further.

As human beings, we are still ancient bodies living in a modern world that has been sorely affected by the agricultural revolution that includes highly processed foods.

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.

The questions get bigger still in the final chapters, which concern the nature of being human and the idea that, just as the science fiction writers of yesteryear couldn't predict this modern world, we don't know if people, sentient robots, and unforeseeable next - gen tech will play nicely together.

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.

This year alone, they released six of the most inventive, quality offerings out there: two terrifying survival thrillers, Damien Power's devastating and brilliant Killing Ground and Sam Patton's lesser but still - worthy Desolation; Sean Byrne's masterful tale of artistic obsession and satanic possession The Devil's Candy (all three even harder to endure because the featured families in peril are so human and likable); A Dark Song, an unnerving occult thriller in which a woman hires a medium to help make contact with her dead daughter; and House on Willow Street, which, similar to last year's horror highlight Don't Breathe, sees a house robbery — led by a woman with a mission, played by modern scream - queen Sharni Vinson — go terrible wrong, but this time in a more supernatural way.

They might just be massively genied humans from the far future, maybe, but that still separates them from the «real» humans of modern expectation.

Our older brain structures that evolved to serve us well in the era of early human existence are essentially designed for fight or flight functions, which served us very well for thousands of years, and still do for some aspects of modern day life.

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.

In a catalogue essay on an exhibition of Chadwick's sculptures and drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro in January 1962, Herbert Read noted that Chadwick has consolidated his style and subject matter since winning the 1956 Sculpture Prize at Venice, saying... «He is still preoccupied with states of attention or alertness in the human figure or the animal.

Finally with Charles Sheeler's work «Water», 1945, the cool depiction of a brand new hydroelectric plant, the painting is both literally and metaphorically «dry», with no water visible and a total absence of any human narrative; this is a picture «built» by the artist in the name of progress, the modern metropolis rendered pristine — and rather frightening — as the viewer questions that total lack of a human presence or narrative — and as we look on, still buoyed by this geometrically clean Modernist dream, all the while the machines — the new modern soul — conspire to take over the world.

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.

The extinct pacific island civilizations were modern humans so they are were as smart as we are today, yet there was still someone who thought it was a good idea to cut down the last tree or eat the last animal.

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.»

Homo erectus was still in China but modern humans had recently arrived in Australia, showing that they had mastered water travel, to make it across from southeast Asia.