Sentences with phrase «most early humans»

The debris may have caused years of volcanic «winter,» killing many creatures, including most early humans.
But archaeologist Stanley Ambrose of the University of Illinois in Urbana, who proposed the idea that Toba's eruption wiped out most early humans, isn't convinced.

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Among the earliest and most crucial hires I make at any organization are in human - capital management and business - development functions.
Not only would there be a huge human factor to consider in sending them back to countries with which most aren't familiar, but the cost to our economy could be staggering: According to a Center for American Progress study earlier this year, the estimated loss of DACA workers would reduce U.S. GDP by $ 433 billion over the next 10 years, with California, Texas and Illinois being hit hardest.
The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.
In the early 1990s the models that most economists used to analyze and explain Chinese economic growth were good enough, like the Newtonian bridge in the slow moving world in which humans operate.
It would be nice for her dogma - immersed professor to eventually arrive at what his student came to know so early in her life, that knowledge is gained from living life, and that knowledge can be more true right now than the human writings on the topic that only go back at most 5,000 years.
Religious differences are the most profound differences that humans can have... someone earlier in this thread mentioned «cognitive dissonance» well there is another concept called «cognitive interference» coined by Robert Anton Wilson.
I believe that throughout most of our early human history, when our species population was still relatively small, you simply didn't see rampant homosexuality.
Dec. 18, 2013 — The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.
I learned from whites, at a very early age, that blacks were violent, stupid, unacceptable human beings who were less important than themselves and most of all, «not safe.»
But no one could seriously read the essential message of the gospels or study the lives of the early Christians without seeing that living according to the plan of God calls for the highest courage, and makes the most strenuous demands on the human spirit.
I also do not want to sound like an expert in human behavior but could you ask your partners aunt who or what influenced her the most at an early age?
So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into, of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood of the innocent.
May 24, 2013 — Most modern human mothers wean their babies much earlier than our closest primate relatives.
To me one of the most amazing things about life is the similarity in the early stages of oh say, human, horse, dog, etc..
Not only is IVF the most obvious source of «fresh» and cryopreserved embryos, but the growing acceptance of embryo creation and disposal through IVF has shaped our moral imagination, rendering us less and less capable of seeing any relevant moral claims attending the early embryo as incipient human life.
The truth is that St Paul has the most to do with the diversity of the early Christian Church (Followers of the Way), but today religion is used politically and otherwise to divide humans into «us» as against «them».
The most recent PEW data was released in February 2009 and showed that only 32 % of the public said that humans have evolved naturally over time from earlier primates.
This individualism has dismissed both the extrinsic and the intrinsic value of each human being in favor of material and professional indices of success that most people believe are due to luck as much as anything else (hence the increasing popularity of lotteries) Because the apocalyptic worldview of the early church has now been replaced with the desperate and meaningless finality of possible nuclear annihilation, eschatological expectations and hope for reversal of human fortunes have given way to a «present - only» scheme of refetence even in Christian theology.
With early Romanticism gradually fading away into the petit - bourgeois aesthetic cocoon known as Biedermeier (c. 1815 — 1848), German culture increasingly acquiesces to Romanticism's most worrisome features: its strident nationalist undertow; its messianic aspirations, which mutated into delusions of racial superiority; its Rousseauian attempt at recovering authentic, immediate Life (Leben); the variously violent and sexualized mythology in which its major representatives (Friedrich Schlegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Novalis) ground their longing for human - engineered salvation.
That so many of the most difficult conditions are associated with aging means also that, given human nature itself, the ragged edge of aging will most likely always and necessarily generate new debilitating and lethal conditions to replace those earlier reduced or eradicated.»
With the approach of Updike's 50th birthday, and with the publication of this his 25th book, it is time to offer an assessment of his work as a whole: to trace his natively Lutheran vision of life as cast by God into an indissoluble ambiguity, to examine his treatment of death and sex as the two phenomena wherein the human contradiction is most sharply focused, to set this new novel in relation to the earlier «Rabbit» books, and to determine what is religiously troubling and compelling about Updike's art.
Maybe it is the grindingly long, 162 - game season, which allows for so many promising and disheartening plotlines to take shape, only to dissolve again along the way, and which sustains even the most improbable hope past any rational span; or maybe it is simply the course of the year's seasons, from early spring into mid-autumn — nature's perennial allegory of human life, eloquent of innocent confidence slowly transformed into wise resignation.
I should, however, also remark that the more subtle developments of Whitehead's thought seem to have been the inspiration for one of the most thorough and impressive discussions of the evolution of human mentality and language in its relation to cognate activities in earlier evolutionary forms, namely Suzanne Langer's impressive work, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised human mentality and language in its relation to cognate activities in earlier evolutionary forms, namely Suzanne Langer's impressive work, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised Human Feeling, of which two volumes have so far appeared and a third is promised soon.
Now I come close to the theme of this article: one writer, and I have found no other, in the early Middle Ages attacked classical theism head - on precisely on its two most vulnerable points — its affirmation of, or failure definitely to reject, unqualified theological determinism, and its commitment to endless posthumous careers for human persons, making them in that respect rivals to God.
For example, nothing about human rights is antithetical to the gospel, as most of these rights» early proponents happily insisted.
Joseph Chilton Pearce, father of five and grandfather of eleven, now in his early seventies, has devoted the past twenty five years of his life to putting together and sharing the best research on human development, from the most brilliant minds from all over the world.
Unlike parenting how - to manuals based on behavior modification, the Blueprint for Action is the most comprehensive document ever written on what is required for parents and society to create conditions that foster optimal human development from preconception through early childhood.
It is widely accepted that breast milk is the most important and appropriate nutrition in early life, and WHO, the UK Department of Health, and US Department of Health and Human Services all recommend exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months of age.
Since most of the growth of the human brain takes place after birth, some early environmental stressors could lead to disadvantage for boys being «wired in.»
The early years are when we can make the most powerfully positive difference in a human being's life.
I look at history, and think that for most of history, in most human groups, children stayed with their mother continuously through early childhood.
Pregnancy, infancy and early childhood are the most significant periods of growth and development in the human life cycle.
For example, the effect of early milking frequency on «programming» milk production capacity has been explored in bovine models [30], [40]--[42], but no human studies have been conducted, most notably due to the previous need for mammary biopsies.
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.
While it is widely accepted that the origins of modern humans date back some 200,000 years to Africa, there has been furious debate as to which model of early Homo sapiens migration most plausibly led to the population of the planet — and the eventual extinction of Neanderthals.
Some of the earliest and most common genetic markers for domestication involve changes in the endocrine system that make an animal less fearful of humans.
Flo is «one of the most complete fossils found anywhere until you get to true burials, like in Neanderthals and early modern humans,» says Jungers, who has been closely involved in Homo floresiensis research.
Two other big initiatives fared better: a proteomics effort to identify proteins in blood and other biomarkers that might work as early warning signs of cancer, and the most recent: a human Cancer Genome Atlas.
Sometimes called Bushmen, the Khoisan are the world's most genetically diverse people and diverged from other populations very early in human history.
In recent years, however, well documented earlier sites like Chile's Monte Verde have convinced most archaeologists that humans made it deep into the Americas by 14,500 years ago, meaning that they would have had to cross Canada long before an ice - free corridor existed.
But little is known about the early developmental stages of human gametes — owing to the sensitivity of working with human tissue — and most work in this area has been conducted using mice.
The most important sites, dating between 500,000 to 100,000 years ago were based at the lower end of river valleys, providing ideal bases for early hominins — early humans who lived before Homo sapiens (us).
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA — The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV - 1) responsible for most of the AIDS cases in the world infected people approximately 100 years ago, more than 20 years earlier than previously believed, according to findings presented here this week at the Evolution 2008 meeting.
Early in the game of creating a company, says Perls, perhaps the most important player with which an academic scientist should communicate is the institutional conflict - of - interest panel, whose job is to assure that financial stakes with a commercial entity don't bias research results or compromise the safety of human subjects.
Yes, using mice in early drug studies can spare human test subjects from harm, which most people would argue justifies the frequently misleading findings.
The first analyses of skull data from the most recently discovered species of early human suggest that its brain was surprising sophisticated
Darwinius and Notharctus, on the other hand, are adapiform primates that are early relatives of living lemurs, the most distant branch of the primate family tree with respect to humans and other anthropoids.
The idea that early humans spent most of their time in and among trees has been boosted by evidence from a cave site in South Africa.
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