Today
most modern humans are lucky if they get 8 grams daily.
Not exact matches
The
modern European person
is the
most expensive
human species in this world.
In agreement with
most nonteleological expressions in the liberal political tradition, this theory affirms that rights articulate a universal or natural moral law; but, against the persisting weight of the
modern natural law tradition, the universal right to general emancipation
is not bound to the assertion that
human rights
are independent of any inclusive good.
When Bertrand Russell stated at Columbia University in 1950 that Christian love or compassion
was the thing
most needed by
modern humans, he moved revealingly close to declaring intellectual bankruptcy on his and many others» behalf.
I don't consider myself «postmodern» or «emerging» but
most of the postmodern / emerging philosophy and theology I have read
is a reaction against a
modern philosophy and theology which overemphasized «the many» (the
human ability to figure things out on our own), and as a result,
is not too humanistic, but
is almost excessively spiritual.
When
modern theorists envisage man as a
being who knows what he wants, or who at least possesses an «unconscious» that knows for him, they may simply have failed to perceive the domain in which
human uncertainty
is most extreme.
Darwin's theory of evolution, as understood by
most of the
modern scientific community, has nothing to say about the «gap» between
humans and «lower» animals, because no such gap
is recognized.
Indeed,
most cultures in
human history have generated no such marvel as the
modern scientific movement, and even in our own culture, scientifically oriented as it
is supposed to
be,
most people accept the benefits of technology and use the vocabulary of science but do not in fact choose to abide by the disciplines that alone make scientific productivity possible.
Most important, at a time in
human history when there
is urgent need for wisdom to guide us through a crisis of unparalleled proportions, it removes any interest in wisdom from the intelligentsia in general and the
modern university in particular.
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.
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.
Many people think not; and to account for this slackening impulse in the highest and
most complete of
human mystical beliefs they argue that the evangelical flowering
is ill - adapted to the critical and materialist climate of the
modern world.
It
is well known that some of the
most significant atheism in the
modern intellectual world has
been aroused because of the apparent impossibility of reconciling the idea of God with the fact of
human freedom and creativity.
Human nature comprises evil as well as good, and that has never
been shown to
be more obvious than in this century, when 6 million Jews
were killed by the
most important,
modern nation in the world, the
most democratic, and the
most intellectually and educationally advanced.
Most of these «Abephobes»
are libertarians and neo-Confederates who blame Lincoln for a host of
modern ills; some, it seems, also idealized Lincoln as youths and became permanently disillusioned after learning that he
was not wholly above the usual run of
human flaws.
From the
most primitive of savages to the sophisticated
modern, the urge to «speak» to an Other not
human would appear to
be almost universal.
I have found their ideas to
be faithful not only to important religious intuitions of ultimacy but also to the demands of common
human experience, logic and,
most importantly for our purposes,
modern science.
Nietzsche, the greatest
modern master of understanding man, has taught us an ironical and intimately
human mode of listening, and this listening
is often
most effective when it listens to what
is not said.
However, the strongest and
most persistent single criticism of Ezekiel from
modern commentators
is precisely here in the charge that the proclamation of redemption betrays no more of
human compassion and gentleness than his treatment of the theme of destruction.
Until recently, half of the
human race died from infectious causes before adulthood, providing strong selective pressure for genetic alleles that enhance host defence but why
are the genetic alleles that
are most frequently associated with depression so common in the
modern gene pool?
To our ears such words sound very like the
most blatant
human imperialism toward the rest of nature, as does the divine commission to man in Genesis 1:28; and in
modern times they may have fostered such an attitude and
been used as a divine «exploiters» charter» to justify it.
The
most important reason, Mahoney tells us,
is Solzhenitsyn's understanding of «the permanent propensities of the
modern mind»» namely, the fatal attraction to utopian ideologies and the totalitarian temptation to radically alter
human nature.
Given that St. Thomas» theological project
is both materially and intentionally open ended, and given that the Magisterium recognises that philosophy must take adequate account of the advances of
modern science, if one could demonstrate that the perspective proposed by Holloway and now by Faith movement and magazine fulfilled all of the criteria mentioned above - i.e. it
is a unified vision of the Catholic faith that gives due place to the role of
human reason without blurring the distinction between nature and grace and one that presents our revealed faith uncompromisingly and in its entirety - one could justifiably claim that the Faith vision
is totally coherent with, if not the total content of St. Thomas» theology, then
most certainly the aims and intentionsset out in Aeterni Patris.
For
most people in
modern Britain, the basic definition of what
is human is increasingly confused and conflictual.
Modern scientific research shows that salting the eggplant
is not actually removing
most of the bitter compounds, but the added salt at least decreases the
human tongue's perception of bitterness, very much like how adding a little bit of salt to bad coffee improves the taste.
While online support groups can serve as a springboard for meeting other mothers,
modern technology will never
be able to replace the
human hug as the
most ideal form of understanding and encouragement.
As the world
is becoming more international in its relations, that
is an increasingly less realistic goal, even though it can not
be denied that the idea carries a lot of appeal to
modern humans as their behavior and decision - making has evolved in tribal contexts over
most of their biological existence.
This
is the same argument that Robert Mugabe used to suppress the
human rights of LGBT people in Zimbabwe; that the former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, used when he signed the
most dangerous law against LGBT people in the
modern world; and that President Yoweri Museveni used in a ceremonial signing of the anti-gay bill in Uganda.
«The emergence of
modern human behavior
is one of the
most important debates happening now,» says archaeologist Daniela Rosso of the University of Bordeaux and University of Barcelona.
Most people
are now familiar with the traditional «Out of Africa» model:
modern humans evolved in Africa and then dispersed across Asia and reached Australia in a single wave about 60,000 years ago.
«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression
is that interbreeding with archaic
humans does indeed have functional implications for
modern humans, and that the
most obvious consequences have
been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.
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.
In fact,
most modern breeds
are the result of
humans breeding cats for their favorite hair patterns.
Most scientists thought that the capability for such symbolic thinking
was unique to
modern humans, but a new study suggests that it dates back to before the Neandertals.
«If you look at the viruses that
are the biggest threats of
modern times,
most of them
were unknown through
human history: HIV, SARS, Ebola.
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.
It
is interesting that the
most similar skulls in our sample come from recent Africans on the one hand, and on the other hand from those
modern humans that lived in Europe between 20 - 30,000 years ago as, for instance,... [in one location] in the Czech Republic.»
But archeologist Alexander Marshack of Harvard
's Peabody Museum says it
's most likely the artist
was a more
modern human, since known Neanderthal artifacts to date, aside from tools, have
been limited to things like beads and worked ivory.
I always suspected that Neandertals and anatomically
modern humans interbred, based on a simple observation:
humans are the
most sexual of all the primates, willing and able to do it just about anywhere, anytime, with anyone (and even with other species if the Kinsey report
is to
be believed in its findings about farmhands and their animal charges).
The results showed that even though this hominid's brain
was no larger than a chimpanzee's, it
most likely walked upright like
modern humans.
And researchers
are already working on identifying the genes unique to
modern humans — at the
most basic level, what unites and defines our species.
The
most parsimonious explanation
is that these alleles represent the ancestral
human condition, inherited by both Neandertals and
modern humans in Africa from their common ancestor, Capra says.
Although some researchers once thought they
were our immediate ancestors in Europe,
most now agree that Neandertals and
modern humans most likely shared a common ancestor within the last 500,000 years, possibly in Africa.
«To me, one of the
most exciting discoveries to come out of that analysis [of the Neandertal genome]
was that there
was admixture between
modern humans and Neandertals.
Yet the vast majority of studies in the
human - related sciences
are not based on field research, and the
most field - oriented disciplines, such as sociology and cultural anthropology, have
been least receptive to the
modern evolutionary perspective.
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.
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.
They found that the Neanderthal genome shows more similarity with non-African
modern humans throughout Europe and Asia than with African
modern humans, suggesting that the gene flow between us and Neanderthals
most likely occurred outside Africa as
humans were en route to Europe, Asia, and New Guinea.
So, given three possible explanations for what the Flores hominid
is, and those three possibilities
are that, you know, a dwarfed species descended from Homo erectus or an Australopithecine or a microcephalic
modern human, he says that the
most parsimonious diagnosis
is the one that requires the fewest assumptions — would
be microcephaly.
The problem with that
is that
most modern Bombers don't relay on the good old trusted
human eyeball anymore.