Sentences with phrase «modern humans were first»

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.

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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.)

The real content of many so - called modern difficulties are as old as the eternal hills, as old as human pride, as hoary as the «non serviam» which was uttered by the first man and has been re-echoed since down the centuries.

(R. M. MacIver: The Modern State, pp. 103 - 104) It was the glory of Roman jurists in the early centuries A.D. that they first conceived the jus gentium, the natural law of all peoples, as incorporating the duties and rights which belonged to human beings everywhere.

Much of the discussion of the first directive has concentrated on the issue of non-violence, but it also says that «the lives of animals and plants... deserve protection, preservation and care».18 The church's record on this issue has been subject to criticism, and certainly modern European society has tended to exploit the natural world and to emphasize the gap between human and other forms of life.

Maybe modern science is wrong and the world really is only 6,000 years old... maybe God created primates to turn into humans, and the first to become man was Adam... maybe the Big Bang theory was God on the first day creating the heavens and the universe... the fact is, I don't know.

The first effect of the modern view of history and human existence upon New Testament study was, as we have seen, to focus attention upon the kerygma as the New Testament statement of Jesus» history and selfhood.

To teach, as some writers have, that we must accept the «insight» of modern Evolutionists, as true beyond reasonable doubt, that humans came into existence in various places at differing times (so - called «Polyphyletism») is to compromise the Church's infallible teaching that there was one first man (Adam) and one first woman (Eve) from whom we all descend.

And the fact is that two Catholic priests, Gregor Mendel, O.S.A., and Georges Lemaitre, were pivotal figures in creating two of the most important scientific enterprises of the twenty - first century: modern genetics, which is giving humanity previously unimaginable powers over the human future; and modern cosmology, which is giving us glimpses of the universe in the first moments of its existence.

First it requires us to find and describe what Tillich called the «boundary situations,» that is, those points where modern men and women reach the limits of their human existence, where they sense they are alienated from society and other people, or feel a lack of personal meaning, or fear being useless and having no worth.2.

First of all, it implies some superficial beliefs about the place of sexuality in human experience (we might regard these as being in the antechamber of the temple of sacred sexuality proper): the belief that sexuality is a key, perhaps even the key, component of the quality of being human (in this, of course, lies the pervasive heritage of Freud); the belief that modern Western culture, and especially American culture, has unduly suppressed sexuality (this is the anti-Puritan aspect of the proposition), and, that, as a result, not only are we sexually frustrated (and that frustration carries all sorts of physical and psychological pathologies in its wake), but our entire relation to our own bodies as well as the bodies of others has become distorted.

First, it requires exploring with people what theologian Paul Tillich called the «boundary situations,» those points at which modern men and women reach the limits of their human existence, where they sense a lack of personal meaning, or fear being useless and worthless.

The striking works of Pratt, India and Its Faiths (1915) and A Pilgrimage of Buddhism (1928) did much to make these religions come alive for the first time for many Western readers; for Pratt had a gift not only of brilliance but of extraordinary human sympathy.10 These are clear instances of the increasing mobility of modern man: each book was written as the result of travel in the East.

Modern culture tends to affirm two related things about human beings: first, that we are autonomous individuals, belonging to ourselves and accountable only to ourselves; second, that we are basically good by nature.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

We would not be the first country to establish a day of awareness of human trafficking and modern - day slavery; the United States has already done this.

It is likely that interbreeding happened already earlier on the way of the first modern humans through the Levant.

It is also the first proof that anatomically modern humans existed at the same time as Neanderthals in the same geographical area.

One of the most important early Neandertal sites was discovered in modern - day Croatia in 1899, when Dragutin Gorjanovic - Kramberger, Director of the Geology and Paleontology Department of the National Museum and Professor of Paleontology and Geology at Zagreb University, alerted by a local schoolteacher, first visited the Krapina cave and noted cave deposits, including a chipped stone tool, bits of animal bones, and a single human molar.

Brown suggests that forging tools was part of a «behavioural tool kit» that allowed the first modern humans to conquer the world.

Unusually for a modern military, the Canadian Forces Code of Values and Ethics says it's more important to respect human dignity (the first principle of the code) than it is to follow orders (its third principle).

«This specimen is really important and exciting, as — assuming the dating is correct — it shows for the first time that modern humans existed in the Near East at the same time as Neanderthals,» says Katerina Harvati, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

THE DNA of ancient viruses first spotted in the Neanderthal genome has been identified in modern humans.

Berger thinks Karabo and an adult female found nearby represent a new hominid species, Australopithecus sediba, that may have been the first to walk upright the way modern humans do.

First of all, humans, don't get your hopes up to high: a modern chess AI could beat your brains out (and Deep Blue's, too).

If he is right, ▵ F508 dates back to the first expansion of modern humans into Europe during the Palaeolithic era.

The fossil record and modern genetic analysis suggest that humans and all other living species are descended from bacteria - like microbes that first appeared about 4 billion years ago.

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.

In 2004 historian John Coatsworth described globalization as «what happens when the movement of people, goods, or ideas among countries and regions accelerates,» and that process has been carrying on in one form or another since modern humans first ventured out of Africa.

Several recent archaeological and fossil discoveries in Asia are also pushing back the first appearance of modern humans in the region and, by implication, the migration out of Africa.

From this study [subscription required], Zollikofer concludes that Neanderthal mothers may have had their first child, on average, when they were a year or two older than modern humans and that their time between pregnancies was probably longer.

The finding confirms that Neandertals interbred with modern humans more than once, and it is the first evidence that the two types of humans had a liaison in Europe.

The first modern humans in Europe were hunter - gatherers who arrived around 40,000 years ago.

It has been widely assumed that modern humans — Homo sapiens — first traveled out of Africa and settled in central and Western Europe before heading to Eastern Europe.

At first, White was convinced that humans would understand the obvious implications of his ice - core data: The consequences of human - caused climate change «would basically cripple any kind of modern society.»

He also was the first to describe the camera obscura — a box with a hole in it that captures an image for the purpose of drawing it precisely, a precursor to the modern camera — as well as examining optical illusions in - depth and the thought processes behind human visual perception.

This publishing spotlight on the first prehistoric human form to be discovered (back in 1856) is appropriate, because it touches on the hottest topic in palaeoanthropology: the origin of modern humans.

WHEN the first modern humans left Africa they were ill - equipped to cope with unfamiliar diseases.

But two new papers suggest that they were at home on both the land and the sea: Studies of ancient and modern human DNA, including the first reported ancient DNA from early Middle Eastern farmers, indicate that agriculture spread to Europe via a coastal route, probably by farmers using boats to island hop across the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

When it comes to human evolution, Europe and the Near East are crucial places: Europe has the first cave art, and the Near East has the first sightings of modern humans out of Africa, for example.

Popular discourse now acknowledges that modern China's first leader, Mao Zedong, «was a human being,» says Zhichang Zhu, a systems scientist at the Xiamen University Malaysia in Sepang.

Now, the view of the ancient genome is so clear that Meyer and his colleagues were able to detect for the first time that Denisovans, like modern humans, had 23 pairs of chromosomes, rather than 24 pairs, as in chimpanzees.

If this date — the first proof that a fossil can be directly dated from its genome — holds up, it is considerably older than the very rough dates of 30,000 to more than 50,000 years for the layer of sediment where the fossils of Denisovans, Neandertals, and modern humans all were found.

The first time was at least 80,000 years ago in the Near East, as evidenced by findings of both Neandertal and modern human bones in caves in Israel.

In 1997, a team of Australian archaeologists, led by the late Mike Morwood, was on the prowl for evidence of the first modern humans to arrive on the continent.

And it's really the first opportunity that scientists have had to look at the composition of a social group in early modern humans from that time period.

The structure and function of the auditory system is very similar in modern humans and the first primates, suggesting high evolutionary conservation of auditory perception among species,» says Docent Irma Järvelä, the principal investigator of the study.

First the current thought from Alan Templeton, based on genetic information, is that Homo spaiens sapiens, modern humans, left Africa about 135 — 95 kya, with 135 kya most likely, but anytime thereafter, up to 95 kya is almost as likely.

First of all, note that many of the items in this list are completely irrelevant to modern thinking about human origins (and some of them were never relevant).

Pontus Skoglund is not entirely convinced, however, that the genetic journey from Denisovans to modern humans is as straightforward as it might at first seem.