Sentences with phrase «much earlier evidence»

However, this year archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood of the African Heritage Research Institute in Cape Town uncovered what he considers much earlier evidence of abstract thought — two pieces of ocher engraved by a South African cave dweller 77,000 years ago.

Looking for the origins of cooking, Graham Lawton noted the contradiction between the late evidence of human control of fire and the much earlier evidence that we were not eating raw meat (5 November, p 36).

Not exact matches

The story indicates that the earliest evidence we have is that camels were not tamed and utilized until much later than the bible would indicate.

This latest evidence for «inflation» supports the expansion of space in the early universe at a rate much faster than the speed of light.

There's not much evidence that the early church was anxious about this.

While this evidence does not make the Big Bang model a certainty, it does make it much more likely than any other model of «the early development of the universe» that has been suggested.

It may not have much value as evidence for the facts of the life of Jesus, but it is at any rate undeniable first - hand evidence for the faith of the early church, and this is well worth studying.

In the case of Moore, where the circumstantial evidence is much stronger and to me relatively persuasive, Wilson himself writes: «Nobody would ever quite know, truly know, what he had shared with [Moore] in those early days.»

No matter how much evidence we have about Abe the man there isn't any reason or evidence to believe he was an early version of Buffy.

So you take what the early church fathers, the ones trying to legitimize their religion as much as possible, the ones saying that all the similarities are products of the devil, and just take their word rather than actual archaeological evidence and anthropological study?

Recent research has found evidence that comparable floods occurred much earlier in the Ice Age in the Columbia Basin, as much as 1 to 2 million years ago.

(Shalit presents convincing evidence that modesty was encouraged in part because it was believed that women liked sex too much, and they would get themselves into endless trouble if they didn't learn early on to exercise some restraint.)

Through dialogue, these young men, precious to God, might come to see that the Christian view of Jesus is much earlier, more coherent, and better evidenced than the Muslim view of Jesus.

The influence of these older evolutionary cosmologies on Whitehead's thought, moreover, is never carefully examined so much as it is presupposed.1 Against such presuppositions, I shall argue here that evolution and evolutionist theories play no significant role in Whitehead's metaphysics, and that there is no evidence in his major works of any significant influence from earlier process - oriented «evolutionary cosmologies.»

The written evidence for this is both earlier and much broader than had been previously thought.

The sacramental teaching of the gospel, on the other hand, while much of it certainly reflects the experience of early Christians, seems, in comparison with the rest of the New Testament evidence, to be only partially based on the teaching of the Jesus of history.

I very much disagree with paying a player half a million pounds per week well into his early 30's when all empirical evidence suggests that he's starting the decline of his career.

Nonetheless, there is a lot of evidence that parents have a much bigger impact on their preschool - aged children than teachers do, and that pro- grams to support good parenting practices in vulnerable families pay off in the long run, especially in the early years.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that babies who have been spoon - fed have more problems with gagging and «choking» when they start to handle food... than those who have been allowed to experiment much earlier.

As further evidence of his outspoken nature, he also was a vocal critic of the election of Long Island Republican John Flanagan as Senate majority leader in 2015, so much so that earlier this year he said he was seeking GOPers to run against Sen. Michael Nozzolio, R - Seneca County, who backed Flanagan during the 2015 leadership battle.

And while the charges stem in part from evidence uncovered by the Moreland Commission — which Mr. Cuomo shuttered early, much to the chagrin of good government types and prompting an investigation from Mr. Bharara — the governor today said he had no regrets about ending the corruption - busting panel when he did.

There are just tremendous opportunities for science, to discover what the early solar system was like, whereas on Earth, the wind and the oceans have pretty much washed away most of the evidence.

Tim White, a paleoanthropologist not connected to the project, says the findings were published too early, with too much left unknown — including the age of the fossils and whether concrete evidence for the intentional placement of the dead exists.

Much more solid evidence for dark matter came from Vera Rubin, an observational astronomer, who in the late 1960s and early 1970s made detailed quantitative measurements of stars rotating in galaxies.

It remains too early to tell if this cutback in coal mining is a blip or evidence for the much - anticipated peak in the country's consumption of the most polluting fossil fuel.

A Nature Communications study published in July, however, found evidence the hook - ups began much earlier: roughly 220,000 to 470,000 years ago.

One of the cats had a millet - rich diet — a clue that humans were likely feeding the animal, said researchers, and evidence of domestic cats in China much earlier than previously thought.

They also present evidence that the lines that led to Neanderthals and modern humans diverged nearly 1 million years ago, much earlier than studies based on molecular evidence have suggested.

The Misliya jawbone «provides the clearest evidence yet that our ancestors first migrated out of Africa much earlier than we previously believed,» study coauthor Rolf Quam of Binghamton University in New York says.

«Life on Earth likely started 4.1 billion years ago, much earlier than scientists thought: Evidence that early Earth was not dry and desolate.»

In an earlier review, Ngun and Vilain cited evidence that methylation may be determined by subtle differences in the environment each fetus experiences during gestation, such as their exact locations within the womb and how much of the maternal blood supply each receives.

These results support previously published archaeological evidence for stone tool use in australopiths and provide skeletal evidence that our early ancestors used human - like hand postures much earlier and more frequently than previously considered.

Complex brains evolved much earlier than previously thought, as evidenced by a 520 - million - year - old fossilized arthropod with remarkably well - preserved brain structures.

While some earlier studies, using different approaches, have posited that Antarctic ice sheets could add as much as a metre to sea levels by 2100, this new evidence suggests ice loss on this scale is «implausible», the paper says.

Many fossils have been discovered, which is strong evidence of an earlier time when the Earth's continents were much different from today, many of them connecting and then disconnecting over eons.

Hence the continental crust phenomena are accepted as good evidence of earlier ice ages when they are found in layers created much earlier than the time range for which ice cores and ocean sediment cores are available.

The included birth defects were based primarily on case reports of outcomes occurring in association with Zika virus infection during pregnancy; there is more evidence for some of these birth defects than for others, and a causal link has not been established for all.5,10,12,21 - 27 Because much of the focus to date has been on microcephaly and brain abnormalities, data were summarized in 2 mutually exclusive categories: (1) brain abnormalities with or without microcephaly regardless of the presence of additional birth defects and (2) neural tube defects and other early brain malformations, eye abnormalities, and other consequences of central nervous system dysfunction among those without evident brain abnormalities or microcephaly.

Much more impressive evidence also was published to show that the early stages of heart disease, atherosclerosis, and its predictive serum cholesterol marker, were increased much more by dietary protein than by dietary fat, especially the protein in animal - based foods.&raMuch more impressive evidence also was published to show that the early stages of heart disease, atherosclerosis, and its predictive serum cholesterol marker, were increased much more by dietary protein than by dietary fat, especially the protein in animal - based foods.&ramuch more by dietary protein than by dietary fat, especially the protein in animal - based foods.»

In part because it plays a role in reducing weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and so on (for more details on how this distorts the results, including evidence from other studies on how these statistical tricks hide real health benefits from much higher amounts of running, see my earlier blog entry).

The FDA had also received, early in 1998, the final British Government report on phyto - estrogens, which failed to find much evidence of benefit and warned against potential adverse effects.

It looks from early evidence that intake of plant toxins may be much more consequential for health than the overall carbohydrate level.

Stymied at every turn by an alarming lack of non-anecdotal concrete evidence of her existence (much of her early understanding of the character comes from a few scant interviews with former coworkers and one still photo), she begins to take on her own conception of the character, a deep dive into the method acting process.

For starters, it's revealed early on that Ebbing's police department, while populated with its fair share of knuckleheads and racists, didn't so much bungle the investigation as run into dead ends — there just wasn't much evidence to go on.

For one, it's revealed early on that the police department, while populated with its fair share of knuckleheads and racists, didn't so much botch the investigation as run into dead ends — there just wasn't much evidence to go on.

While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.

While the report concluded that the reform was a failure, the actual results were mixed, with the positive trends for students who were earlier suspended being much stronger in magnitude than evidence of negative outcomes for students who were not.

While support for early years provision is to be welcomed, given how much of the disadvantage gap opens between 0 - 5 years, there remains insufficient evidence to say whether school - based early years provision offers better quality of outcomes than other types of nurseries.

But our best evidence shows that if the main goal is the reduction of the achievement gap then our effort must start much earlier and be much more intense.

The site shows evidence of human habitation as early as the Neolithic Period, and was primarily a fishing village for much of its history.

Amazon recently added the UK and Germany to Kindle Unlimited, which started off as US - only, but anecdotal evidence suggests that early response from both these countries has been much weaker than in the US.