Sentences with phrase «most ancient humans»

Because the brain can't distinguish between what the body is experiencing in reality and what it's seeing through the drone's sensors, the pilots, for a moment, experience that most ancient human desire: to fly.

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A hedge fund manager is the latest to embark on one of the most ancient of human quests: immortality.

The most ancient of human writings only go back no further than 7 thousand years.

And then that moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.

Of course no minister ought to claim that he has the complete answer to this ancient and most persistent perplexity of the human spirit.

At a time when it could be argued that we most need it, we have lost the ancient Christian doctrine of original sin as a corporate human condition preceding and affecting each individual.

Of all the views of man and his purpose that were expressed in the ancient world, that of ancient Israel most nearly conforms to the modern knowledge of the human condition.

With that in mind, I have noticed that many, if not most new converts can have, in all appearances, a genuine spiritual experience before any high doctrine of «scriptural authority ever enters their head.Now, some may say that just how it works, first you crawl, then you walk... baby food, then the meat, but this is my point... the world is full of «spiritual meatheads»... there are so many believers who wdn't know an original thought, unless of course, they cd find the chapter and verse to unequivocally support it.Is it so difficult to comprehend how a collection of ancient documents may not be the final, complete and indisputable Word of God, but mere human artifacts, sometimes godly, sometimes not, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering.?

Thus in contrast with the ancient mythological cultures and with holy scripture outside the Judeo - Christian stream, most of the Old Testament either consists of historical material, or is expressed with due regard to the historical nature of human life.

Though an ancient evil, it began to receive intellectual defense more recently than most evils, for it was only a century ago that Count Gobineau published in French his four - volume Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, in which he contended that color of skin determines mental and spiritual differences, and that mixture of blood produces degeneracy and the fall of civilizations.

That sociability is expressed most broadly as a fellow feeling for the whole human race, or what the ancients called philanthropy.

If Christianity was the only viable synthesis of the traditions and cultures that remained at the end of the ancient world, then it is Christianity itself which represents the most interesting legacy of this era of human consciousness.

«Not only the oldest known human fragment from Africa,» Leakey proclaimed, «but the most ancient fragment of true Homo yet discovered anywhere in the world.»

From ape to human, the brain grows about fourfold, but most of that increase occurs in the cortex, not in more ancient structures.

In one of their most challenging human DNA projects to date — no British individual this old has ever had their genome sequenced — the Natural History Museum's ancient DNA lab's Professor Ian Barnes and Dr Selina Brace carried out the first ever full reading of Cheddar Man's DNA.

«Most of the archaeological evidence for movement is based on artifacts, but artifacts can be stolen or copied, so they are not a real good proxy for actual human movement,» says archaeologist Doug Price of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who tracks ancient migration by analyzing isotopes.

As one of the world's leading authorities on ancient seafaring, he has devoted much of his career to hunting down hard evidence of ancient human migrations, searching for something most archaeologists long thought a figment: Ice Age mariners.

In a paper published in Global Heart (the journal of the World Heart Federation) the authors review the findings of atherosclerotic calcifications in the remains of ancient people — humans who lived across a very wide span of human history and over most of the inhabited globe.

They also agree, if with less unanimity, that the most common genetic variants found in contemporary human beings are ancient in origin — at least 50,000 years old.

«This significantly shifts debates about the origins of art - making and supports ideas that this fundamental human behaviour began with our most ancient ancestors in Africa rather than Europe.

Then, by comparing this ancient epigenome with that of modern humans, they identified genes whose activity had changed only in our own species during our most recent evolution.

The fossils form such a neatly graded series, getting less and less ape - like and more and more human as they get closer in time to the present, that the most earnest creationist can do little more than muddy the waters by inflating and distorting the existence of points of disagreement between specialists, or trying to revive long since discredited Homo sapiens specimens once claimed to have been from extremely ancient deposits.

Homo naledi, our most recently discovered ancient relative, might have lived alongside Homo sapiens and carries a striking similarity to modern humans.

But ancient - DNA sequencing is beginning to shed some light on the issue.11 For example, by comparing a human HAR sequence with the HAR sequence of an archaic hominin, researchers can estimate if the HAR mutated before, after, or during the time period of our common ancestor.12 This approach has revealed that the rate at which HAR mutations emerged was slightly higher before we split from Neanderthals and Denisovans.3, 13 As a result, most HAR mutations are millions of years old and shared with these extinct hominins (but not with chimpanzees).

Responses to the discovery of a tiny species of ancient human hailed as one of the most sensational finds of its type in decades.

While many different schools of health and performance have unique philosophies about how to reestablish harmony and ideal function in the human system, most modern practitioners of the health sciences are shifting some of their focus to ancient views — namely, that a healthy gut is the foundation of longevity and vitality.

Nuts and seeds are also the reproductive material of plants and they are both a staple of the ancient human diet (most likely) and a nutrient and calorie - dense food.

Hatha Yoga is the most ancient form of physical practice, which acts as an effective tool of overall transformation of human body and mind.

The word «Cardio» actually comes from the ancient Greek word «Kardia» which meant «Heart» so naturally, as you may expect, cardiovascular exercise and activity is very beneficial for the human heart, which is, without question, one of the most vital organs in our bodies.

A style that is the most ancient and traditional is a scientific amalgamation of two qualities that define the foundation of human existence — Ha (the Sun) and Tha (the Moon).

These most intimate of ancient human artifacts were often ignored or discarded during many previous archaeological excavations, but careful study of materials painstakingly recovered from human paleofeces says a lot about what ancient human dietary practices were like, given their incredibly high content of fiber, undigested plant remains.

Leading Ayurveda specialist Dr. John Douillard explains that the lymphatic system, the body's largest circulatory system, is always the first system evaluated in Ayurveda, the ancient healthcare practice of India, and yet in western medicine it is the most forgotten, under - studied, and least understood system in the human body.

Turmeric is hands down one of the, if not the, most versatile healing spice in the world with over 600 experimentally confirmed health benefits, and an ancient history filled with deep reverence for its seemingly compassionate power to alleviate human suffering.

Charles (James McAvoy), Erik / Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Raven / Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Hank / Beast (Nicholas Hoult) are joined by young Cyclops, Storm, Jean and others as the X-Men must fight their most formidable foe yet: an ancient unrelenting force determined to cause an apocalypse unlike any in human history.

Back to Waller and the corner - cutting, expository intros of her TOP SECRET folder: There's Deadshot (Will Smith), «the most wanted hitman in the world»; Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), once the Joker's psychiatrist, now his psycho girlfriend; Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), a guy who, well, hurls boomerangs; El Diablo (Jay Hernandez), a human flamethrower; Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje, hidden under several inches of prosthesis), a super-strong reptile - man; and the Enchantress (Cara Delevingne), a former archeologist intermittently inhabited by the spirit of an ancient witch.

Michael Armstrong, author of several books on human capital and performance management, is quoted as saying, «The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.»

Inarguably, it is true that the ancient book is the most imperceptible work in the known literature of human race.

Even though the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) premise of energy flow and balance is quite foreign to Western medical principals, this ancient healing modality has survived to this day, and finds a place alongside the most modern veterinary and human medical technologies.

Most followers of the ancient faith believe that members of the animal kingdom are friends of humans that simply can not talk.

While it is one of the most ancient and universal forms of human expression, jewellery has an ambiguous status, mid-way between fashion and sculpture, and is rarely considered to be a work of art.

The mask is one of the most ancient expressions of human endeavour.

Lance Esplund, art critic for the Wall Street Journal, writes of Joan Snyder: «The functions of Ms. Snyder's art, first and foremost, are to further the tradition of painting and to explore the most serious aspects of the human condition; to connect us not only to one another and to nature but to ancient rites and myths.

These days, the atmosphere really does reflect human activity, and, as in our most ancient stories, our own behavior really is bringing disastrous weather down on our heads.

But Blair carries a unique significance: it is a testament to over one hundred years of resistance to the coal industry, which has placed profit over land, human life and the most ancient mountain range on the planet.

The most perplexing problem going forward is how modern technologies intersect with ancient human frailties and what this portends.