Sentences with phrase «on early human»

The science on early human transformation of the Earth will only keep growing as it moves beyond its roots in Bill Ruddiman's inspiring work (noted by almost every presenter), making me reminisce about first meeting Bill at AGU in 2008.

In fact previous climate warming after the last ice age did have significant negative impacts on early human settlements (evidence of periods of significant and rapid regional sea level rise).

Take yourself back to the Stone Age in this humorous take on early human society.

Chris Stringer, a merit researcher at the Natural History Museum in London, is a leading expert on early human origins.

«It is legal to do this for research purposes on early human embryos in the UK with a licence from the HFEA, but the 14 day limit applies and it would be illegal to implant the embryos into a woman for further development.

In Germany and I believe Italy, it is only possible to carry out a procedure on an early human embryo that would not cause it harm.

I disagree with a moratorium, which is in any case unlikely to work well, indeed I am fully supportive of research being carried out on early human embryos in vitro [in culture / in the lab], especially on embryos that are not required for reproduction and would otherwise be discarded.

Taken together, those traits may open a window on early human behavior as well.

«It's exciting to find Homo sapiens outside of Africa this early,» says paleoanthropologist Shara Bailey of New York University, an expert on early human teeth, who was not involved in the new Misliya cave study.

The study also uncovers several other major findings on early human populations.

«Ice age bison fossils shed light on early human migrations in North America: Study dates the first movements of bison through an ice - free corridor that opened between the ice sheets after the last glacial maximum.»

In their extreme focus on early human evolution in Africa, scientists may have missed major clues about our ancestry still buried in other parts of the world.

It's really only by scientists performing some of this essential work on early human embryos that we are going to be able to understand why some embryos make it and some don't.

Not exact matches

In building ProAmerica, Contreras - Sweet said that it was critical to the bank's survival that she build a strong human and physical infrastructure early on.

That, he said Tuesday, is much of the reason he founded SpaceX: After humans successfully landed on the moon in the late 60s and early 70s, progress stalled out.

«I don't want to say this is a great day — because it will have a negative impact on human beings, and I want to be compassionate,» says Linkner, the founder of Detroit Venture Partners, a $ 50 million venture capital firm that invests in early - stage start - ups in the city.

Earlier this year, the company suspended a top executive after news broke that the company was involved in tests of the effects of diesel fumes on humans and monkeys.

Earlier announcements by the Shi'ite militias that they will be involved in the offensive on Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, triggered warnings from human rights groups of sectarian violence in the mainly Sunni province.

After CT scans in 2011, the fossils pushed estimates of the earliest human habitation on the West Coast back by 800 years (to about 13,800 years before present day).

For instance, the researchers didn't look at other contaminants, like the effects of endocrine disruptors, flame retardants and pesticides on human health and early deaths.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

America imposed fresh sanctions on Russia in early August, building on previous penalties that focus on interference in the 2016 U.S. election, human rights violations, the annexation of Crimea and the alleged destabilization of eastern Ukraine.

«Early in the investigation process [that led to the firings], it was decided, as is the norm in such serious human resource matters, to have the Public Service Agency (PSA) lead the investigation,» Whitmarsh wrote on Oct. 6 to McNeil, adding that the Public Service Agency had support from the province's Chief Information Officer to investigate the handling of government data.

Based on his studies during the 1960s and his practical experience in the early 1970s, Milken was determined to focus, first, on future cash flow rather than the past as reflected in book value and reported earnings; and second, to consider human capital part of the balance sheet.

Ysios Capital is a leading Spanish venture capital firm that provides private equity financing to early - and mid-stage human healthcare and life science companies with a special focus on pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and medical devices.

New Evidence on How Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United StEarly Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United Stearly labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.

Early - stage tech companies raise money through a stubbornly analog process — an irony for an industry based on the conviction that computers will upend every aspect of human existence.

Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.

Often concentrating on the early writings such as the Habilitationsschrift and the Lublin lectures (neither has been translated into English), the author indicates where the young thinker incorporated Scheler's phenomenological value ethics, Kant's formalistic ethics of duty, and Aquinas» understanding of the rational desire of the will into his own synthesis of human action and value.

At its heart, Luther's early theology is marked by a strong emphasis on what the scholastics called uncreated grace, grace as the presence of the uncreated God, and on the transformation of the human heart by God in the utter transcendence of His Godhead.

It would be nice for her dogma - immersed professor to eventually arrive at what his student came to know so early in her life, that knowledge is gained from living life, and that knowledge can be more true right now than the human writings on the topic that only go back at most 5,000 years.

Where the critical point in his earlier theology of grace is God's crucifying contradiction of sinful human nature, here the point on which everything hinges is the authority of Christ the Savior, exercised concretely in the sacramental signs of the Church.

Research on a new «gene editing» technology known as CRISPR — which theoretically allows any cell or organism to have its genome altered — is advancing exponentially, with early research ongoing on human embryos created for that purpose.

And even if there is generally an improved understanding of God, to say that this is because of a progressive divine revelation rather than because of our own increased understanding through the years is tantamount to saying that our earlier ignorance is God's fault for not revealing more sooner, It hardly seems necessary to blame human ignorance on a divine coyness, or to picture God rationing out carefully increased doses of self - revelation.

Browsing the new arrivals shelf at your local theological library, you're now as likely to find titles by the Catholic dogmatician Matthew Levering, the Orthodox historical theologian Paul Gavrilyuk, and the Reformed theologian Kevin Vanhoozer on why we need to continue to speak, with the early Church, of God's inability to suffer — and of God's voluntary assumption of our human nature, in Jesus Christ, in order to share, and thereby overcome, our suffering — as you are to find another volume on God's suffering in the divine nature itself.

With the ferocity of an Old Testament prophet, Powers indicts our blindness and selfishness, a grotesque narrowing of vision; one of his principal characters learns early on that «human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of birches in a breeze.»

But no one could seriously read the essential message of the gospels or study the lives of the early Christians without seeing that living according to the plan of God calls for the highest courage, and makes the most strenuous demands on the human spirit.

Babylonia, situated on a broad low plain between the rivers at their widest points, was very fertile and had developed an advanced culture as early as 3500 B.C.. From this region comes the famous Code of Hammurabi which, dating from long before the time of Moses, shows high ethical discernment regarding the establishment of justice in human relations.

Scholars, on the other hand, as we have seen earlier, mean by it «a traditional narrative involving supernatural persons», of which the truth is not literal but to be understood as illuminating the meaning of human life.

An earlier draft of this essay was discussed at a conference on human rights sponsored by the Center for Process Studies and held in honor of Douglas Sturm.

This was always our objection to earlier forms of Roman Catholicism - we must not add human traditions to the scriptural revelation as if they were binding on the church.

Though on a smaller scale than in the early «80s, political killings still go on, yet not one ranking military officer has ever been tried for human rights violations — not even in the Romero case, despite the unassailable evidence implicating (then Major) Roberto D'Aubuisson and his cohorts.

Thus Santayana's earlier work consists in philosophical comment on human life rather than constructive metaphysics or ontology, while Whitehead's is devoted to the foundations of mathematics and the analysis of scientific concepts.

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.

See, that's what I mean by muddled... you humans took a little story, mixed it with some myths from earlier religions and decided I was this all powerful god with an all powerful father (that supposedly turns hair on the head as well as beards white if you look at him) that cared about each and everyone of you.

Hyping the Holocaust is edited by Franklin Littell, president of the Center on the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights in Philadelphia and one of the early pioneers of Jewish - Christian dialogue.

Kass ably led the council members in a long debate on cloning, with the result that earlier this year they came out in opposition to human cloning but divided on the use of cloned embryos for research purposes.

A corollary of all this that is crucial for Whitehead's reflections on education is the idea that a life led on the level of human existence that is mere dull repetition of value realized in earlier experience is less than fully human.

Although theologians may have claimed that crucifixion scenes exhibited the extremity of God's love for humans, it was scenes of the child suckling at the breast that spoke to people on the basis of their earliest experience.

Docetism, the denial of the humanity of Jesus on the claim that he only appeared to be human, was the first heresy with which the early church had to grapple, and it persistently lifts its head even today.