Sentences with phrase «of us modern humans are»

Much of the modern human is a tourist, a sampler, a «chooser» of taste and fashion consistently and fundamentally unnourished.

«The body proportions of modern humans are wildly different from those of early hominids, and that confounds the whole thing,» says University of Utah evolutionary biologist Dennis Bramble.

Genetic analysis of modern humans is difficult, in part because the island populations were decimated by European diseases at the end of the 19th century.

The remains of these ancient wanderers should not be here — unless our conception of the origin of modern humans is wrong.

It would be absurd to suggest that the epigenome of modern humans is identical to that of our Paleolithic ancestors, given the substantial changes in environment and food that have occurred since that era.

Cordain's theory is that the genes of modern humans are highly similar to those of people living in the Paleolithic Era (2.5 million to approximately 11,000 years ago)-- the period when men began hunting with tools and, yes, often sought shelter in caves.

Sadly, most of us modern humans are living with chronic stress, and this is leading to diseases [1] like hypertension, obesity, heart disease and diabetes.

Not exact matches

After several years of research, in 2011 De Brouwer launched Scanadu, a start - up he believes can be instrumental in solving one of modern health care's major flaws: that humans rely too heavily on the expertise of doctors and not nearly enough on data.

Paleoanthropologists have disproven the basic premise that the modern human digestive system is the same as that of early humans, but research also suggests that a diet of unprocessed, hormone - free meat sources coupled with fresh fruits and vegetables has clear benefits.

That doesn't mean that every kid growing up in the suburbs of Dallas will succeed — far from it — but it does mean you have access to the tools modern humans need to be economically competitive.

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«This is a case of pandering to the very basest of human curiosity,» he told Reuters, expecting a favorable verdict to demonstrate «there is still privacy in the modern world.»

Not only does this suggest modern humans might have been stepping tentatively into Europe and getting friendly with Neanderthals long before the wave of migration that led to today's population, it shows Neanderthals were more diverse than we thought.

With the recent discovery of anatomically modern humans evolving 100,000 years earlier than previously estimated, it's not out of the question that our ancestors did a lot of moving about.

Well before modern genetic engineering technology was around, humans found ways to tweak the DNA of plants by zapping it with chemicals or radiation — resulting in crops that are not considered GMOs.

This sophisticated technology, he thinks, was key to launching modern humans out of their native continent.

Diversity and inclusion are a big part of modern human resources practices.

«The dialogue of robos vs. humans or old vs. new really misses the richness of what's going on, which is an entire industry re-inventing itself to be more modern, more in line with what investors want to pay for, and to be more in line with the consumer experiences of today.»

Fiber optics technology is a marvel of human ingenuity, not to mention physics and design, and with it comes high - capacity digital communications for a modern age.

«Modern waste to energy recovery facilities that are designed and operated in accordance with current stringent regulations do not adversely impact human health or the environment,» asserted Sarah Foster a founding member of Maryland based scientific research and consulting firm, CPF Associates.

Understanding that by nature, humans will often walk away from a system that is overly complex, modern brokers do an excellent job of supplying interfaces that are straightforward and user - friendly.

Platinum is among the rarest precious metals on the planet and the modern needs of the human race dictates that its value will only increase over time.

«Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery taking place in every state across the country,» said Kevin Burch, co-chairman of TMAF and president of Jet Express, Inc. «With 3.5 million professional truck drivers on America's roads, the industry and truck drivers are in a valuable position to help identify and report possible human trafficking cHuman trafficking is a modern form of slavery taking place in every state across the country,» said Kevin Burch, co-chairman of TMAF and president of Jet Express, Inc. «With 3.5 million professional truck drivers on America's roads, the industry and truck drivers are in a valuable position to help identify and report possible human trafficking chuman trafficking cases.

Eve Tushnet has written beautifully on a vision of friendship for gay Catholics, encouraging them to recover a fundamental aspect of the Catholic tradition of human ecology that has been missing in modern times.

Foolish, HC: The guess of an educated modern human is more valuable than the guess of a Bronze Age Palestinian.

The modern project of controlling nature is founded on the belief that technological innovation improves the human condition and should be encouraged rather than controlled.

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.

It doesn't matter to me whether this is «correct» exegesis — either the Bible finds some way of adapting to the modern notions of morality, or it gets left by the wayside on the ever growing dung - heap of rejected holy texts of human history — in my opinion, that's the historical moment we are currently faced with.

I agree with your post, Mr. Stephens — insofar as I believe that a cobbled - together patchwork of Bronze Age myths that sanction slavery, genocide, human sacrifice, and child murder should not be arbitrarily invoked as the sole determinate for notions of morality in the modern world.

What you're giving up is your freedom to think for yourself by accepting this fantasy man - in - the - sky BS that has somehow managed to propagate throughout the centuries of modern human existence.

Only for a brief period in the history of the West — the period of modern times — did anyone seriously suppose that human beings could hold knowledge without God.

Modern humans have been around for 200,000 years, Christianity for about 2,000... I feel bad for all of those billions of humans who are rotting in hell right now because they never had a chance to know of Christ.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

It's unique among modern religions in that human sacrifice:» (Jesus) is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.»

What could be more comforting to modern consciousness than to discover that «ultimate concern» and «sin» are essential and unavoidable characteristics of the human condition?

The inadequacy of the modern, secularist alternative to medieval disputationism (whether of the rejectionist or accommodationist type) is that it assumes that humans can transcend their traditions and simply reconstitute themselves in an ahistorical realm, one whose simplicity and transparent rationality will overcome the complexities of the past.

Our laws are modern laws, created by the evolution of the human mind.

The Modern notion of individual autonomy is an attenuated or thinner version of the Christian conception of the dignity of the human person.

And Socrates» paradoxical statement in Plato's Apology that «not out of money does virtue arise, but out of virtue money and all other goods for human beings, both private and public» - a passage that has given modern scholars fits for generations - underscores the self - sufficiency of the virtuous individual.

The game, which has the support of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Pope Francis, was organised to raise money for a joint Catholic and Anglican campaign against modern - day slavery and human trafficking.

It does not describe said individuals and their posterity, ancient or modern, as of less worth, or value as human beings than any other group.

They belong to us for some of the same reasons they were practised by ancient Pythagoreans and modern Buddhists: natural, human religious wisdom acknowledges that the body must be tamed before the soul.

To make this point is to disagree with the subtitle of Harold Bloom's recent opus, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, which credits Shakespeare with the creation of the modern self.

The medieval field of alchemy — the attempt to change base metals into gold and to find the philosopher's stone capable of bringing about human perfection, even immortality — is ludicrous to the modern mind, a relic of a prescientific time.

YOU:: Shld the modern world ignore the new knowledge that's available to us on the subject of human sexuality?

One understanding of human nature common to the modern era sees man as standing both above and outside nature (after Descartes, as a sort disembodied rational being), and nature itself as raw material — sometimes more pliable, sometimes less — for furthering human ambition (an instrumentalist post — Francis Bacon view of nature as a reality not simply to be understood but to be «conquered» and used to satisfy human desires).

Since it is at a minimum passé to speak of God publicly, there are those who try to make the Decalogue more palatable to modern sensibilities by lopping off those Commandments directly referring to God, concentrating instead on the ones that govern human relations more generally.

Shld the modern world ignore the new knowledge that's available to us on the subject of human sexuality?

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.