Sentences with phrase «old as our species»

Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.

If these groups are truly representative of early humans, then menopause could be at least as old as our species.

They're also ancient, and are between 112 million to 124 million years old as a species.

Old enough to be part of evolutionary processes16, maybe as old as our species.

Not exact matches

only minds can concvive of thoughts, sry if your lacking mr. fake... a thought is one that is transferible by accidenct — those that read or hear even sometimes feel can be instantly takenover by a thought, and as thoughts go — you, I, everyone, hasn't had a original thought in most likely ummm, say a long friggin time, i'd say personally i think being that the species is as old as (provible) 37,000 thousand years old, every thought as been thought since by maybe a few thousand years... and thats a hopeful «thought» being i believe our average person to be generally dumb.

What science fails to realize is that in addition to Evolution, we also have Mitochondrial Eve, who is roughly 5,000 years old, and who has been proven to be a common ancestor to humanity as a species.

We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and looking at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back on 2000 year old beliefs and you thank a god who has never been proven to exist.

Old - earthers also hold to a literal Adam and Eve as the progenitors of our entire species.

In his book Science, Truth and Democracy, scientific philosopher Philip Kitcher argues that the old way of doing science with its hierarchies, taxonomies and categories, such as could be applied to species, must be...

Something new happened with the rise of the homo species, but this was within a grand and aeons - old scheme of the rise of life, in which the Creator has always been immanent as well as transcendent.

Notice the current favorite strategy: all anti-evolutionists are painted as Christian biblical «fundamentalists» who insist that the world and all its species (in a post-Linnean sense [1]-RRB- were created in six days, or that the world is only 6,000 years old.

These Evangelical Neanderthals are convinced, despite overwhelming evidence, that the earth is 7000 years old and species were created as they are now.

The animal, known to science as Anchiornis huxleyi (named in honour of Thomas Huxley, an early advocate of Darwin's ideas) is an older species than Archaeopteryx by some 10 million years, being dated to the lateJurassic period, c. 151 - 161 millions years ago.

8 Cf. the striking remark of intellectual historian C. C. Gillispie: «Lamarck's theory of evolution was the last attempt to make a science out of the instinct, as old as Heraclitos and deeply hostile to Aristotelian formalization, that the world is flux and process, and that science is to study, not the configurations of matter, nor the categories of form, but the manifestations of that activity which is ontologically fundamental as bodies in motion and species of being are not.

We, as a species... we humanity learned most of what we learned throughout human history only AFTER refusing to accept the old - time explanation «because [insert name of local deity or other spirit, etc.] decreed it should be so.»

As more and more facts about our world were discovered (ie, the world is more than 6000 years old, humans were not the first species, there was no world - wide flood), science and religion have grown further and further apart.

As a species we represent a triumph in survival against the odds, and we survived by way of wits and will, by way of cooperation and interdependence, man and woman, young and old.

The superiority of the Mass over the Old Testament sacrifices is fullyestablished by the Real Presence of Jesus under the sacramental species (in contrast to his Old Testament presence merely as a sign) even without the supposition that the Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament has, in whatever sense, a quality of woundedness.

Spelt is a species of wheat much more common in ancient and medieval times but newly popular as some people look to explore older varieties of common foodstuffs and others feel that health benefits may accrue from avoiding some varieties of wheat in favor of others.

While we think nothing of giving infants milk from a different species — a cow — the prospect of sharing human milk gives many people the willies, and I've heard the age - old practice, still common in many cultures, described as «gross, sick, twisted and overboard.»

On Thursday, the museum — which bills itself as the oldest in Chicago — will turn out some of its rarer animal specimens, including a small rodent called a southern rock vole and two specimens of prairie chicken, a species whose population has rapidly declined due to habitat destruction.

A recognized leader in animal care and conservation, Chicago's Shedd Aquarium announced today that it has welcomed a seven - week - old orphaned southern sea otter pup (Enhydra lutris nereis) to the aquarium as part of a collaborative partnership with Monterey Bay Aquarium — a leader in the conservation and rescue of the threatened marine mammal species.

Merely being in the presence of such iconic (if not controversial) species as tiny Marbled Murrelets and reclusive Spotted Owls — both pawns in the long - standing battle to conserve old - growth forests in the Northwest — was in itself a humbling experience.

In a previous study of 24 healthy women, vaginal microbiome composition became less diverse between the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and just before delivery was enriched with Lactobacillus species, likely contributing to vertical transmission of these bacteria during vaginal birth.21 In a study of 10 newborns in Venezuela, within hours of delivery, the intestinal tracts of infants born vaginally were colonized by Lactobacillus and Prevotella, whereas infants delivered operatively acquired bacteria present on the mother's skin and the hospital environment, such as Staphylococcus, Proprionibacterium, and Corynebacterium.15 Quiz Ref ID Our findings, based on a large group of 6 - week - old infants, indicated that Lactobacillus also contributes to the microbial environment of the gut but to a lesser extent than Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, and Streptococcus.

As for your final question, no mammals drink milk into adulthood (except for humans drinking the milk of other species who have produced the milk for their own babies) so the likelihood of a 15 year old wanting to breastfeed because they're in hospital is extremely low and actually non existent in my opinion unless the child has been abused.

This is the story of the famous Lonesome George, a giant tortoise who was the last of his species, lived to be one hundred years old, and became known as the rarest creature in the world.

All three species increased their use of symbols, as opposed to gestures, as they grew older, but this change was far more pronounced for the human child.

S. acuminata, which grew up to 40 centimeters long, belonged to a diverse group of predators known as eurypterids, whose oldest known species appeared about 467 million years ago.

J.H.: A lot of the research I've been doing lately has to do with dinosaurs changing drastically the way they look as they get older, and in the past people have just thought because the littler ones were so much different than the bigger ones that they had to be different species.

This should benefit biodiversity as displaced plant and animal species recolonise their old terrain.

Some scientists consider the slightly older Tarbosaurus bataar from Asia to represent a second species of Tyrannosaurus, while others maintain Tarbosaurus as a separate genus.

Paleontologists at the University of Bonn, together with scientists from the Alexander Koenig Research Museum in Bonn as well as the Universities of Kassel, Gdańsk (Poland) and Lucknow (India) with the Museum for Materials Research at the Helmholtz - Zentrum Geesthacht, have now discovered and described a new species in 54 million - year - old amber.

By comparing it with that of modern humans, chimpanzees and bonobos, plus Neanderthals and Denisovans, Meyer estimated its age at 400,000 years, twice as old as our own species and far older than any hominin genome previously sequenced (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature12788).

The first Neandertal fossils were discovered in 1829 in Engis, Belgium, and in 1848 at Forbes» Quarry, Gibraltar, but were not recognized as an early human species until after the 1856 discovery of «Neandertal 1» — a 40,000 - year - old specimen, including a skullcap and various bones, found at the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte in the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf, Germany.

In some older specimens — including some species such as Sequoia, Pseudotsuga menziesii and many species in tropical rain forests — the canopy is 100 meters or more above the ground!

Fossilized denticles, tiny tooth - shaped scales that once covered their skin, are the oldest evidence we have for sharks — though researchers disagree on whether denticles alone are enough classify a species as a shark.

As they report in the second Science paper, fully one - third of the Ledi - Geraru mammals were new species, not seen in older sediments at nearby Hadar.

These reefs that have persisted over time have thus played a dual role as museum and cradle: they have preserved old species and led to the emergence of new ones (speciation).

Regardless of how old the polar bear is as a species, or whether it's a species at all, the purpose of such studies is to gain a better understanding of the great white bear's ability to survive in the Arctic, which is now rapidly transforming as a result of accelerated global warming.

Until now, Little Foot was considered a more recent species than Lucy, the famous 3.2 - million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis from Ethiopia often cited as our direct ancestor.

As I watch them on the screen, Provine's teenagers remind me of an old Carl Sagan riff, which begins with his describing «a species of primate» that likes to gather in packs of 50 or 60 individuals, cram together in a darkened cave, and hyperventilate in unison, to the point of almost passing out.

The whale spotted on Christmas, a 2 - year - old female right whale cataloged as Eg 3911 (Eg for the species» scientific name, Eubalaena glacialis), tangled with a fishing trap line sometime between February and December 2010.

In a finding that overturns the conventional view that large old trees are unproductive, scientists have determined that for most species, the biggest trees increase their growth rates and sequester more carbon as they age.

He often refers to the olfactory parts of the brain as the «Old Factory,» as they are remarkably similar across species.

Analysis of a wealth of new data contradicts an earlier claim that LB1, an ~ 80,000 year old fossil skeleton from the Indonesian island of Flores, had Down syndrome, and further confirms its status as a fossil human species, Homo floresiensis.

This fossil find — the oldest ancestor in the multituberculate family tree — represents a newly discovered species known as Rugosodon eurasiaticus.

Recent surveys have found more than 2,300 - year - old colony of deep - water black coral 1,480 feet (451 meters) below the surface off Oahu — and deep - sea fishing threatens the long - lived, slow - reproducing species that inhabit the sea bottom such as the Patagonian toothfish (better known as Chilean sea bass).

I am also confident that these species are very rare and may be dependent on old - growth forests or small water bodies such as springs and wetlands.»

A fossil leaf fragment collected decades ago on a Virginia canal bank has been identified as one of North America's oldest flowering plants, a 115 - to 125 - million - year - old species new to science.

Some species also live to extraordinary old ages and — even more remarkably — do so with no signs of poor health, such as a decline in regenerative capacity or an increase in age - related mortality.