Sentences with phrase «most of human evolution»

The truth is, fat is the ideal energy source and has been for most of human evolution.

This is how our bodies burn fat without burning too much fat and it was probably quite a useful regulatory system throughout most of human evolution.

Geneticists are starting to have success in warmer places, which is a priority because most of human evolution occurred in Africa.

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One of the most influential works on that list is «Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind,» originally published by a Canadian psychiatrist in 1901.

As with most human activities, as our knowledge of evolution and genetics increased, dog breeding improved and exploded in the 1900s.

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

Everything I've studied has shown me that the bible is a very human collection of books (most with uncertain authorship) and that monotheism was not a radical departure, it was a gradual evolution from polytheism to monolatry to monotheism.

the most convincing evidence of God of panthrotheism is the scientific proof of the Big bang, becasue after billions of years of evolution when we humans developed cosnsciousness we began to think of Him, God is the source of everything and all religions.

The absence of strict determinism that recent physics has discovered at the most basic levels of matter, the chance mutations that biology finds at the level of life's evolution, and the freedom that comes forth with human existence — all of these are the expected features of any world we might claim to be distinct from the being of its creator.

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.

Your book is the most recent rewrite of a fairly recent development in human evolution.

If evolution is a fact and if the most basic meaning of evolution is that the complex forms of life emerge from the simple, how can the dualistic forms of evolutionary theory account for the emergence of the human mind from inert lifeless matter, the animate from the inanimate?

The most critical years of decision in all human evolution, from thousands of years in the past to thousands of years in the future, are just these between now and 1984.

But still most people would tend to agree that a program of controlled eugenics that involved exterminating humans with defective genes is immoral even though it could accelerate evolution an better the species.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

The evolution I love the most is the evolution of human thought to better understand these things that have been provided to us, so we can live better lives... and all true believers feel the same, though they are often limited by their own experiences in various ways — culture, education, social groups, life experiences.

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.

At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire observable Universe and its billions of galaxies about 13,720,000,000 years ago (the approximate age of the current iteration of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine.

Make the most of your sleep and your baby's sleep with these three tips that are based on human evolution and anthropological research.

Simon Mead of University College London says the «anti-kuru» gene is the most clear - cut evidence yet of human evolution in action.

Understanding how and why we evolved such large brains is one of the most puzzling issues in the study of human evolution.

The evolution of the human brain is one of the most important questions in the story of our origins.

In the past, most of the big news about human evolution came from remote dig sites in places like Africa or Indonesia.

In species with biparental care, such as burying beetles, most birds and humans, our results indicate that males are followers not leaders in the evolution of family life.

The fossil provides the most detailed look to date at a member of a line of African primates that are now candidates for central players in the evolution of present - day apes and humans.

If they are right, the Flores remains rank among the most important paleoanthropological discoveries of all time, one that will revolutionize our understanding of human evolution.

Rapid evolution of other species happens all around us all the time — and many of the most extreme examples are associated with human influences.

«Under geological aspects, the small number of so few large animal species presents an anomaly,» explains Professor Dr. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, and he continues, «The most prominent example of prehistoric giants is, of course, the dinosaurs.»

For years, apartheid and religious fundamentalism robbed South Africa of its place as one of the most important centres in the story of human evolution.

Due to climate change, she said, the world faces «one of the most daunting crossroads in the evolution of human history, we are at the point where we must decide: are we going to ignore science or are we going to rise to the call of history and forge a new life on Earth paradigm... where nature and humanity support each other.»

Using the same samples, the team also traced the evolution of Y. pestis and confirmed that it evolved from a soil bacteria closely related to Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, a bacterium that causes Far East scarletlike fever in humans, and is most often spread through food.

One of the most important evolutions of the Micro-8 investigation is the introduction of human monocytes — or blood cells — as a host.

On page 1358 of this issue, Arsuaga et al. (1) date this paleontological treasure at the Sima de los Huesos (see the photo) and shed new light on one of the most impassioned issues in the field of human evolution: How did Neandertals evolve?

Most significantly, DNA evidence charting human evolution has proliferated, and the new hall — funded with a $ 15 million grant from Anne and Bernard Spitzer — now rightly gives equal weight to both the molecular and the fossil sides of human history.

As the most calorically dense nutrient, fat has been a desired energy source across much of human evolution.

«But this was not always the case,» explains Professor Dr. Madelaine Böhme, director of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) at the University of Tübingen, who continues, «Our most recent study shows that the number of amphibian and reptile species used to be much higher in the course of geological history.»

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.

Both of these apes may have something to tell us about the evolution of human behavior, yet most research has focused on chimps, in large part because bonobos are endangered — perhaps as few as 10,000 remain.

It was one of the most important achievements in the study of human evolution.

When Reich entered college, in 1992, most of what scientists knew about human evolution came from fossils.

Because Beard's work focuses on the origin and evolution of primates and anthropoids — the precursors to humans — he found the Libyan discovery of a new species of the primate Apidium to be the most exciting of the fossils uncovered by the team.

The new work addresses what David Puts, a biological anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, calls «one of the most contentious questions in the study of the evolution of human sexuality: whether women's orgasm has an evolutionary function.»

Researchers have unearthed the most primitive primate yet discovered, a tree - dwelling creature that could nestle in the palm of your hand, according to an October paper in the Journal of Human Evolution.

«We argued then that high fat consumption was one of the most important solutions to the predicament presented by human evolution.

The atlas opens new pathways for the investigation of the paleobiology and evolution of what may arguably be one of the most famous, yet surprisingly poorly known animals that went extinct in recent human history.

PARIS — He may be called Little Foot, but for human evolution researchers he's a big deal: His is the most complete skeleton known of an early member of the human lineage.

The STR is also campaigning to remove content about «the evolution of humans» and «the adaptation of finch beaks based on habitat and mode of sustenance», a reference to one of the most famous observations in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Within a million years, most of the large carnivores in the region — from saber - toothed cats to bear - size otters — had gone extinct, leaving just a few «hypercarnivores» alive, according to a study presented here last week at a workshop on climate change and human evolution at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

Steve: You know, today is also the anniversary of the death of Darwin, speaking of the human evolution with Kate, and just to finish up — am I wrong, but isn't the place you're most likely to find a fistfight at a conference, one of these human evolution anthropology conferences where people are arguing over whether that bone represents a new species or just an example of a known species or whether some artifact is again a new species or some kind of pathological example of an old species?

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.