Sentences with phrase «modern humans were capable»

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It is astonishing to me that in the 21st century any modern thought capable human would fall for such an unbelievable boondoggle.

The medieval field of alchemy — the attempt to change base metals into gold and to find the philosopher's stone capable of bringing about human perfection, even immortality — is ludicrous to the modern mind, a relic of a prescientific time.

These do not depend upon the highest ethical commitments of which men are capable, but upon that mixture of human sympathy, rationality and self - interest which constitutes the basic pattern of human motivation While Niebuhr is a realist about the possibilities of human justice he has a strong concern for the social reformism in politics which characterizes modern democracy and the Christian social Gospel.

Blombos Cave, South Africa: Dated to about 100,000 years ago, ochre - processing «tool kits» and other artifacts found at the site — including an engraved piece of ochre, the oldest known art of its type — suggest early humans were capable of modern, complex behaviors much earlier than once thought.

The findings lend support to the idea that these early modern humans were more advanced with maritime technology than previously thought, and that they were capable of thriving on small, geographically isolated islands.

They are now considered to have been intelligent (as smart as early modern humans, some anthropologists think), perhaps red - haired and pale - skinned, and capable of speech.

Like the antlers on a stag, a pronounced brow ridge was a permanent signal of dominance and aggression in our early ancestors, which modern humans traded in for a smooth forehead with more visible, hairy eyebrows capable of a greater range of movement.

A model of the Neanderthal's vocal tract showed it to be similar to a modern human female's and capable of speech.

During the last half - century, our human DNA has not experienced major changes commensurate with this radical transformation of wheat, and many people's bodies simply may not be capable of processing modern wheat effectively.

The theme of this article was that once the modern science of nutrition divorced individual nutrients from the context of real food and the approaches to dietary balance that governed human dietary choices across time and space right up until the modern era, we lost the perspective needed to understand that nutrients are neither good nor evil but are all capable of goodness when used in the right way and in the proper context.