Sentences with phrase «of human civilization so»

The changes are extremely gradual, they can not be observed over the short time span of human civilization so far, and the term «species» is a man - made concept to make categorization of life forms convenient... it is not an immutable feature of the natural world as you seem to think it is.

Not exact matches

Not so with Belloc, who was far from alone among historians of his generation who understood the significance of race and blood in the episodes of the human past and how important these factors were in the creation of societies and civilizations.

But it recognized Christ solely in terms of communion and this is why no other art in any other civilization ever caused the sacred to embody so much of the human and so fully expressed the sacred through the human.2

So soon as the human race reaches the level of shared appreciation, ordered and agreed convictions as to ends or aims to be sought after and if possible achieved, and a pattern of common life in which the mutuality and sharing known at the personal level can be broadened in more or less formal communal patterns, we can speak of the appearance of civilization.

If and when we are ever visited by an alien civilization, I can imagine one of the creature staring incredulously at the Vatican or wailing wall and asking its human hosts, «so, you REALLY thought it was all about you?»

In the great Western civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic sphere.

Only slowly did the scientific approach of questioning and testing win wider acceptance, and in doing so it set in motion the greatest revolution in human civilization that there has ever been.

One can imagine, if and when we are eventually visited by an alien civilization, one of the creatures staring incredulously at the Vatican and asking its human hosts, «so, you really thought it was all about you?»

So as the sun rises over Paris, the world stands at the beginning of a new era where agriculture, which was responsible for human civilization to evolve, will be responsible for human civilization to survive.

So rather than thinking of competing and separate civilizations, we should think in terms of only one human civilization (one human story), comprised of multiple geo - cultural domains that contain sub-cultures, much like an ocean into which many rivers flow.

And as the last 5,000 or so years of human civilization make clear, any time large numbers of human beings gather together in one shared space without laws governing their behavior, problems inevitably arise.

So precise is their rotation that millisecond pulsars can measure time more accurately than human - built atomic clocks — that is why when first discovered, in 1967, it was thought that they could be the product of some extraterrestrial civilization.

They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.

Jeffrey Tayler's latest book is a masterful guide to the divisions that define so much of human civilization.

NPCs, who all play a part in the restoration of human civilization, are also quite personable, thanks to the excellent writing, so players will eventually come to care for them.

From the dawn of history, and in cultures throughout the world, humans have been prone to imbue Earth's life - giving rivers with qualities of life itself — a fitting tribute, no doubt, to the wellsprings upon which our past (and present) civilizations so heavily rely.

So the end of oil, for example, doesn't mean the end of energy use or necessarily, of human civilization.

Of course, most of us knew this already, but sometimes seeing it laid out so plainly over the course of human civilization brings it home with a thuOf course, most of us knew this already, but sometimes seeing it laid out so plainly over the course of human civilization brings it home with a thuof us knew this already, but sometimes seeing it laid out so plainly over the course of human civilization brings it home with a thuof human civilization brings it home with a thud.

«One of the great challenges we face is that certainly there have been other dramatic changes in the history of the Earth, but not so much in the history of human civilization,» says Brendan Kelly, a scientist at the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska.

So I think we do in fact know what the «optimum» temperature window is for modern human civilization — and we are about to find out the unpleasant consequences of breaking through that window.

If we have real - world evidence that temperatures were warmer than today during most of the past 10,000 years (and also during several interglacial warm periods during the past few million years), and if we also have real - world evidence that human civilization thrived during these warmer temperatures and the warmer temperatures did not trigger so - called «tipping points» sending the planet into a climate catastrophe, then we have very little reason to believe that our presently and moderately warming temperatures are now poised to send the planet into a climate catastrophe.

The third is less widely known but should be front - and - center: It is well - known among people who study such things that, human civilization has seen several warm periods and several cold periods all within the span of recorded history and the archeological record timeframe, so we have a pretty good understanding of what each kind of climate change bodes for mankind.

The application of the so - called «precautionary principle,» advocated by the environmentalists, is — conceptually — a wrong strategy, because human civilization can not exist in a regime of the precautionary principle.

If yes, big monies will be required to fund Monsanto so that a new class of global - warming pesticides can be brought to market in time to save civilization and our human species.

«The weight of our civilization has become so great, it now ranks as a global force and a significant wild card in the human future along with the Ice Ages and other vicissitudes of a volatile and changeable planetary system» — Dianne Dumanoski, Rethinking Environmentalism

So 10 percent a year is like... well, it's not like anything in the history of human civilization.

If we do nothing and rely on the kind of jawboning you seem to prefer, very likely nothing useful will be done and human civilization will collapse altogether in the next forty years or so.

Humans have been changing Earth's landscapes at globally significant levels for at least 3000 years, and doing so by increasingly productive and efficient means, according to our new research challenging the claim that use of land by industrial civilization is destroying planetary ecology at an accelerating pace.