Sentences with phrase «of human hunters»

Stone Age cave painters were history's first primitive figurative artists, incorporating a wealth of crude representations of human hunters.

Meanwhile, Triton's people face the specter of extinction at the hands of human hunters.

A corporate sleazeball vampire Charles Bromley (Sam Neill) harvests humans and sells the blood; he has armies of human hunters at his command.

Palaeontologists have long argued about how and why the giant ice age mammals became extinct, and in particular about the role of human hunters in the extinction.

And just like modern dogs, two are shown tethered to the waist of a human hunter.

But unlike the previous ones, this guidebook focuses entirely on Nyanter Mode (known as Prowler Mode in English), in which you get to play as a Fleyne instead of a human hunter.

An evolutionary perspective suggests that father involvement has been important in the increased fertility of human hunter - gatherers compared with the other great apes.21 - 23 That observation contrasts, however, with a world today where fertility levels are plummeting in most countries, with fathers typically investing large amounts of resources and care in few offspring over prolonged periods.6, 24 In this latter case, the time and resources provided by fathers may help develop a child's social and educational capital, in turn helping him / her succeed socially as an adult.25

Not exact matches

After all, for most of human history we were hunter - gatherers with scarce access to food.

For instance, recent research on the sleep habits of hunter gatherer bands living much like our long - ago ancestors did found modern humans actually don't get much less sleep than our tribal forebears.

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

the purpose why God allowed multiple religions to evolve and exist in the distant and even today is because our minds intellectual capacity has increased tremendously after we became civilized about 10,000 years go.Earlier when we were hunter gatherers our priorities was just to find food to survive, Then we became more knowlegible and our concern includes the intelle tual need to understand the meaning and purpose of our existence, so God allowed the founding and establishment of many religions by humans to conform with their intellectual, social and educational development, Since this is not static, it contiually diversify and change to conform with their times of existince, History showed that this is continuesly improving, so the future expects changes towards Panthrotheism in accordance to His will.

There was a Nat Geo special not long ago that credited the transition of humans from nomadic hunter / gatherers to farming and communal living to the domestication of the dog.

Just as physics generalizes variables of movement so that they can apply not only to a human hunter and his fleeing prey, but also to stars, planets, atoms, and photons, so psychics needs to generalize such ideas as feeling, perceiving, remembering, anticipating, intending, liking and disliking, so that they can apply not only to animals, but even to the real individual constituents of the vegetable and mineral portions of nature.

If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or by one of the earliest of civilizations, one of half - human gods (chimeras) or monsters, little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?

With its fine brain and great strength, a wounded buffalo sooner or later becomes the hunter instead of the hunted, meticulously and skillfully doubling back to stalk its human enemy.

We know that the caregiving practices I discuss frequently in my blog emerged more than 30 million years ago with the social mammals and were slightly changed among humans according to anthropological studies of small - band hunter gatherers.

Given that highly affectionate parenting practices are similar to the practices anthropologists believe parents used during the thousands of years that humans lived in hunter - gatherer societies, it's likely that they are closely matched with what a developing baby's brain naturally expects.

Too often we look at historical societies (especially hunter - gatherer ones which comprise the majority of human history) and dismiss them because of the threats to their survival.

The IUGB is a scientific conference focused on the biology, ecology and human dimensions of game species and hunters.

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

Some of these arthropods (whose closest living kin include insects, spiders, and crabs) were fierce hunters that grew to the size of an adult human, whereas some — such as those without claws or tail spines — likely filtered the water for prey or scavenged the sea floor for food.

People hunted giant sloths in the center of South America around 23,120 years ago, researchers say — a find that adds to evidence that humans reached South America well before Clovis hunters roamed North America 13,000 years ago.

That's likely because the city birds never came into contact with human hunters, who accounted for most of the bird deaths in the wild.

The genomes of contemporary pygmy and hunter — gatherer tribes in Africa, for example, have roughly as many differences as do those of European modern humans and Neandertals.

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.

In 33 hunter - gatherer societies around the world, parents typically take 1 - to 2 - year - olds on foraging expeditions and give the youngsters toy versions of tools to manipulate, reported psychologist Sheina Lew - Levy of the University of Cambridge and her colleagues in the December Human Nature.

The other derives from reports of intergroup fighting among hunter - gatherers; our ancestors lived as hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo genus until the Neolithic era, when humans began settling down to cultivate crops and breed animals, and some scattered groups still live that way.

Coss» paper grew out of a 2015 study in which he and a former graduate student reported that zebras living near human settlements could not be approached as closely before fleeing as wild horses when they saw a human approaching on foot — staying just outside the effective range of poisoned arrows used by African hunters for at least 24,000 years.

Their commitment to wilderness is as fervent as any I have come across, but it pays tribute to the historical presence of human beings, from the original residents, whom the pioneers called Sheep Eaters, to the gold miners of the late 19th century, to the ranchers who strung telephone wire along the creeks in the 20th century, to big - game hunters who used Taylor Ranch as a base before the university acquired it and turned it into a biological field station.

Fat seals were the richest prey, but hungry bears also picked muscle tissue out of seal carcasses and took advantage of a whale that human hunters had caught.

There also is evidence of a «grandmother effect» on the survival of younger members of the few remaining human hunter - gatherer societies.

«On the basis of morphological and metrical analysis of the faunal remains from Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A hunter - gatherer deposits, we can document that wild sheep would have inhabited the local environment year - round and formed an important resource for the human population to target for food.

People hunted giant sloths in the center of South America around 23,120 years ago, researchers say — a find that adds to evidence that humans reached South America well before Clovis hunters roamed North America roughly 13,000 years ago.

Prompted by the extraordinary DNA identity, the scientists used information from decades - old botanical collections, knowledge of the seasonal movements of ancient hunter - gatherer - farmers and molecular DNA clock calculations to work out that the plants» seeds had almost certainly been transported by humans about 10,000 years ago.

It turns out that chimpanzees and human hunter - gatherers and primitive farmers have about the same rates of death due to violent attacks within and between groups.

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

LeBlanc contends that researchers have unearthed evidence of warfare as far back as they have looked in human prehistory, and ethnographers have observed significant levels of violence among hunter - gatherers such as the!

The current extinction of many of Earth's large terrestrial carnivores has left some extant prey species lacking knowledge about contemporary predators, a situation roughly parallel to that 10,000 to 50,000 years ago, when naı̈ve animals first encountered colonizing human hunters.

This boom - and - bust scenario also lines up well with arguments by some that human immigration from Europe may have artificially swelled the ranks of the passenger pigeon by eliminating their Native American hunters and foragers, who competed with the birds for nuts and other forest foods.

In Paleolithic times, the main entrance to the cave, which has since fallen in, had a magnificent view of the valley below — a great spot for human hunters lying in wait for their prey.

According to Jody Enck of Cornell's Human Dimensions Research Unit, «By the middle of the 21st century, there may be no more hunters unless those concerned about hunting can initiate an aggressive and well - funded effort to address problems.»

An international consortium led by researchers from the University of Tübingen and Harvard Medical School analyzed ancient human genomes from a ~ 7,000 - year - old early farmer from the LBK culture from Stuttgart in Southern Germany, a ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherer from the Loschbour rock shelter in Luxembourg, and seven ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherers from Motala in Sweden.

Prehistoric human populations of hunter - gatherers in a region of North America grew at the same rate as farming societies in Europe, according to a new radiocarbon analysis involving researchers from the University of Wyoming and the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

From 50,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago, when humans lived in small groups of hunter - gatherers, the rate of killing was «statistically indistinguishable» from the predicted rate of 2 %, based on archaeological evidence, Gómez and his colleagues report today in Nature.

So it seemed fortuitous when, 5 years later, Charles Dawson, a professional lawyer and amateur fossil hunter in Sussex, U.K. (now East Sussex, U.K.), wrote to his friend, paleontologist Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, announcing that he had uncovered a «thick portion of a human -LRB-?)

Fossil hunters continually scour northern Europe for convincing proof of early human habitation.

If Harvati is right, the last Neanderthals may have starved to death on the fringes of Europe as more efficient groups of modern human hunters invaded their territory and ultimately became masters of the world.

Previously, the researchers believed that humans at that time had been far more involved in mobile groups of big - game hunters whose main protein intake thus should have come from herbivores such as red deer, aurochs and elk, and consequently the role of fishing was not recognised.

The UBC Sauder School of Business study, published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, found that bargain - hunters who adopt a «price - conscious mentality» — meaning their main goal is to save money and get the cheapest deal — tend to see employees who they interact with as less human.