Sentences with phrase «of early human societies»

These dogs were «scavengers» looking for food, and found it among the villages of early human societies.

An exhibition charting the development of art in South Africa, from the creations of early human society to examples of contemporary work.

Not exact matches

There are so many things that have faced human society that were completely incomprehensible to the original disciples and apostles, the early church, and yet the church endures, the church survives because the Gospel isn't tied to one particular time in history, one particular school of thought, one particular framework.

Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

Critics such as James Burtchaell, whose book The Dying of the Light was reviewed in these pages by Ralph C. Wood (February 3 - 10), have simply not indicated realistically how, in the face of massive changes in society, church and human knowledge, church - related colleges could have maintained their traditional church - relatedness in all its 19th - or early 20th - century glory.

Any idea of going back to the pattern or world - view of traditional societies either primal or medieval or even early modern is doing violence to the historical nature and social becoming of human beings.

Although pure mathematics and impure practice thus combine to suggest that living things, human selves and societies, should not be pictured on the model of Chepstow Castle — as though they were ping - pong balls, single shells that either insulate or shatter — our generalized common - sense notions of inside and outside by and large remain early Norman in their simplicity.

The early tract and missionary societies enlarged their work of rescuing human wrecks of economic competition, and they began to pay more attention to the immigrant through language classes and employment agencies.

The central issue in the early debates between Fundamentalists and Modernists was on the question whether the gospel should emphasize as the essence of the gospel, deliverance of the humans from sinfulness or affirmation of the human vocation to creativity and cooperation with God in recreating nature and society according to the purpose of God.

If you follow the evolution of human society per the theory of the early philosophers: Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau; it is posited that when humans decided to move from a state of survival of the fittest in which they roamed in the bush mainly in small family groups and decided to settle in larger societal groups, they needed rules and regulations to order society.

Modern hunter - gatherer societies typically have territories of 12 to 25 miles in diameter, and researchers believe early human groups had similar ranges.

The data suggest that the girl lived at least 50,000 years ago and that two other Denisovan individuals died in the cave at least 110,000 years ago and perhaps as early as 170,000 years ago, according to two talks here last week at the meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution.

Earlier this year David Van Essen, president of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), strongly urged the US House and Senate appropriations subcommittees on labor, health and human services as well as on education to increase NIH funding by 6.7 percent per year for each of the next three fiscal years, stating that this is needed «to ensure that our best and brightest young people will enter the field and continue to make neuroscience research advances.»

For example, research on children's play in extant hunter - gatherer societies, and evolutionary psychology studies of other mammalian young, have identified play as an adaptation that enabled early humans to become powerful learners and problem - solvers.

The approach, described here this week at the annual meeting of the American Society for Virology, might be adaptable for protecting human babies in the early months of life.

In the complex societies of the early 21st century, this means that as humans go about...

Evidence presented in April at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting in Chicago suggests that Neandertal behavior resembled that of early modern humans.

As early humans expanded beyond hunter - gatherer groups, religion was the glue that held societies full of strangers together, says Ara Norenzayan

Describing the find at a meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada speculated that the ancient tooth might have been washed downstream to Nebraska by floods, or carried as a ritual object by early humans.

Similar male kinship networks in humans may have led to the extended, stable interactions that formed the basis of early society.

Earlier this year, 20 Brazilian scientific societies, including the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science and the Brazilian Anthropology Association, wrote to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff opposing the dam, saying it would violate the human rights of indigenous groups.

«Ancient Peru: Major discovery of early human life: Elaborate baskets reveal sophisticated societies in the late pleistocene and early Holocene ages.»

Louise Humphrey, an anthropologist and tooth expert at the Natural History Museum in London, agrees, although she says that the early weaning of the Scladina child is «intriguing» because it is more than a year earlier than the nearly 30 months typical of modern human nonindustrial societies.

Early exposure in the human womb to phthalates, which are common environmental chemicals, disrupts the masculinization of male genitals, according to a new study that will be presented Sunday at the Endocrine Society's 97th annual meeting in San Diego.

The paper identifies four major phases when humans shaped the world around them with broad effects on natural ecosystems: global human expansion during the Late Pleistocene; the Neolithic spread of agriculture; the era of humans colonising islands; and the emergence of early urbanised societies and trade.

Bourdon presented the findings at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Geneva, Switzerland, earlier this month.

A new article identifies four major phases when humans shaped the world around them with broad effects on natural ecosystems: global human expansion during the Late Pleistocene; the Neolithic spread of agriculture; the era of humans colonising islands; and the emergence of early urbanised societies and trade.

The trait most likely developed 4800 to 6600 years ago from an earlier variant differing at just two base pairs that these groups got from intermixing with tribes migrating from the Asian Steppes, the team reported here last week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.

In fact, Hannam said, many societies have banned or limited the carving up of human corpses, from the ancient Greeks and Romans to early Europeans (that's why Galen was stuck dissecting animals and peering into gladiator wounds).

Currently, he is at The Rockefeller University where, as a Junior Fellow of the Simons Society, he uses stem cells to build experimental models of the human embryo, aimed at elucidating the earliest events in human development.

«With additional research on early - time restricted feeding on humans, we can create a more complete picture of whether this innovative method can best help prevent and treat obesity,» said Schoeller, who is a spokesperson for the Obesity Society and was not involved in the study.

While this issue of diet and physical degeneration remains perennial throughout the history of human agriculture, the problem stabilizes and begins to reverse as early farming societies discovered the importance of using food preparation techniques such as fermentation, to increase digestibility and nutrient absorption.

Whilst for these very early societies the fermentation process was a welcome mystery, humans learned that fermentation not only enhanced the taste of these food products but also ultimately preserved the foodstuffs.

Bill, meanwhile, who, in an early scene, is saved by Sookie from «drainers» — rogue humans who steal vampires» blood for its notorious sensory - and libido - enhancing properties (and, naturally, its black - market value)-- is eager to settle down in sleepy Bon Temps, and may get the welcome mat if Sookie's kind grandmother (Lois Smith) can get her Civil War society to accept a real (if not technically «alive») veteran of that conflict speaking at one of their functions.

McCartney has held many prominent positions including principal investigator on the National Institute of Child Heath and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care & Youth Development, director of the University of New Hampshire Child Study & Development Center, and Fellow by the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Educational Research Association.

SOCIAL SCIENCES: World History GRADES 5 - 12 NSS - WH.5 - 12.1 The Beginnings of Human Society NSS - WH.5 - 12.2 Early Civilizations and the Rise of Pastoral Peoples NSS - WH.5 - 12.3 Classical Traditions, Major Religions, and Giant Empires NSS - WH.5 - 12.4 Expanding Zones of Exchange and Encounter NSS - WH.5 - 12.5 Intensified Hemispheric Interactions, 1000 - 1500 CE NSS - WH.5 - 12.6 Global Expansion and Encounter, 1450 - 1770 NSS - WH.5 - 12.7 An Age of Revolutions, 1750 - 1914 NSS - WH.5 - 12.8 The 20th Century

For every $ 1 invested in a Chicago early childhood education program, nearly $ 11 is projected to return to society over the children's lifetimes — equivalent to an 18 percent annual return on program investment, according to a study led by University of Minnesota professor of child development Arthur Reynolds in the College of Education and Human Development.

«Our findings provide strong evidence that sustained high - quality early childhood programs can contribute to well - being for individuals and society,» said Reynolds, director of the Chicago Longitudinal Study and co-director of the Human Capital Research Collaborative at the University of Minnesota.

Unlike today, though, many of the free marketeers of this earlier era were willing to apply their logic outside the realm of economics, to human societies and to human beings themselves.

«The story follows Nagate, a low - born youth in a society of genetically engineered humans, refugees that escaped the destruction of Earth one thousand years earlier and now occupy the massive ship Sidonia.

The panel consisted of Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, Justice Marta Cartabia of the Constitutional Court of Italy and Judge András Sajó of the European Court of Human Rights at the International Society of Public Law conference in Copenhagen earlier this month.

As reported earlier by ESR News, Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR), spoke about resume fraud at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) 2017 Talent Management Conference & Exposition in Chicago.

Healthy child development is the foundation for human capital and the basis for future community and economic development.1 A significant body of convergent research emphasises the importance of the prenatal and early years for health and developmental outcomes throughout the life course.2 For a growing number of children, suboptimal developmental trajectories are well established by the time they start school, and become increasingly difficult and costly to modify with the passage of time.3 Thus, investing in young children is important for the prevention of disease later in life and contributes to their full participation in society as healthy and productive adults.4, 5