Sentences with phrase «on human fossil»

Over the last three decades, five IPCC «assessment reports,» dozens of computer models, scores of conferences and thousands of papers focused heavily on human fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, as being responsible for «dangerous» global warming, climate change, climate «disruption,» and almost every «extreme» weather or climate event.

Not exact matches

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).

Asked on Sunday to clarify a statement he made last month that carbon dioxide — emitted from fossil fuel power plants — is not a primary contributor to climate change, Pruitt said «human activities contribute to that change in some measure.»

He's going to placeholdercolonize Mars, save Puerto Rico, free us from dependence on fossil fuels, redefine high - speed transportation, and ensure human beings can survive in the age of artificial intelligence.

If we continue to focus on renewables and human based energy (walking, biking, insulation, passive heating and hand tools), we can gradually replace our reliance on fossil based fuel.

Whether it was answers to the body and movement of water, the mechanics of the human heart and body, the motion of the planets or to discover why birds fly, or how the human eye perceives light and distant images, or why fossils are found on mountains, his quest for knowledge was extraordinary.

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

Since modern humans, according to the known fossil record, have been on this planet for roughly 30,000 years!

a) Dinosaurs and humans lived on earth at the same time b) God made earth with dinosaur fossils in it and dinosaurs never actually lived on earth c) Something else?

If you hold that no human death came before sinfulness, then it depends on what you call human (there is a gradation of forms leading up to the modern human skeleton in the fossil record, as well as the overwhelming genetic evidence that we arose through an evolutionary process) and what you consider sin (i.e. when did we become accountable to God for our actions?).

Then there were the numerous articles on how Scientist found a new fossil of the oldest human and they were off by Millions of years.

«Every single human being who walks on the face of the earth has a lense that they view the world through... Since Evolution / Atheism denies the existence of God and the biblical account of creation, they have to make sense of the fossil record and geologic formations somehow.»

Yeah this coming from the same crowd that includes Sarah Palin who believes the earth is 6000 years old and dinosaurs and humans co-existed because she saw a dinosaur footprint and a human footprint on the same fossil!

By employing fossil fuels to replace human labor, on the one hand, and by having each person perform limited repetitive operations, on the other, total production could be greatly increased.

This divergence continues as we get further away from humans and it is EXACTLY consistent with the fossil record and is EXACTLY what we would expect to see if life gradually evolved on Earth over billions of years.

Creationist «well, what about the origin of the universe, the fact that the universe obeys laws, the origins of life on this earth, the fact that the largest «gaps» in the fossil record correspond exactly with the organisms identified in the bible as being created by God, namely fish, birds, land animals and humans»

Many vestigial structures also exist, showing links back to evolutionary history, like hind limbs on snake fossils, pelvises on modern whales, wings on flightless birds, and tails and extra ribs on humans.

Our research focuses on biologically - based mechanisms to reduce pest issues, soil erosion, fossil fuel use, and greenhouse gas emissions; increase nutrient and water use efficiencies; improve pollinator activity and food security; and apply a systems approach to soil, crop, animal, human and planetary health.

But as human population expands and subsistence farming gives way to mechanized agriculture, food production has become reliant on fossil fuel and fertilizers to increase yield from rapidly shrinking farmland.

A further interesting and little publicized fact: scientific analysis of some of the oldest human fossils ever found on the planet has shown that breast milk was the principal form of food for the first three to four years of life [vi].

Given the knowledge that they are crapping in their own habitat with their carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning on Earth, I'd like to think humans have gained an evolutionary advantage which canines lack.

Under the new plan, the government will have the power to veto investment decisions made locally on ethical grounds concerning human rights, arms trade, fossil fuels and much else.

The world's experts have stated that the global warming is largely due to human activity — primarily as the result of reliance on fossil fuels.

Environmental groups have cautioned that drilling for natural gas in New York will pollute water sources, increase reliance on fossil fuels and harm human health.

But fossil humans — or more strictly hominins, the group that includes us and all our extinct relatives from after the split — are notoriously thin on the ground and difficult to interpret.

Dr Evans led an international team of anthropologists and developmental biologists from Finland, USA, UK and Germany, using a new extensive database on fossil hominins and modern humans collected over several decades, as well as high resolution 3D imaging to see inside the fossil teeth.

«Evidence for interpersonal violence in the human fossil record is relatively scarce, and this would appear to represent the coldest cold case on record,» said Quam.

New fossils shed light on the origin of the unusual human relative known as «the hobbit».

Considering what is possible and what is desirable in our energy future, Smil argues that human dependence on fossil fuels must be reduced not because of impending resource shortages but because of the environmental, economic, and political problems caused by our current consumption.

But the fossils from the Cerutti Mastodon site (as the site was named in recognition of field paleontologist Richard Cerutti who discovered the site and led the excavation), were found embedded in fine - grained sediments that had been deposited much earlier, during a period long before humans were thought to have arrived on the continent.

Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors — the so - called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins.

Dating relied on measures of the decay of a radioactive form of uranium in the human fossil and a nearby hippo tooth.

The article, «No known hominin species matches the expected dental morphology of the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans,» relies on fossils of approximately 1,200 molars and premolars from 13 species or types of hominins — humans and human relatives and ancestors.

On a hot January morning 2 years ago, Chalachew Seyoum was searching for fossils at a desolate site in Ethiopia called Ledi - Geraru, where no human ancestor had turned up in a decade of searching.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

Kate wrote the cover story for the February 2005 issue of Scientific American about the fossils of tiny humans found on the island of Flores in Indonesia.

«Think of early human ancestors, where we have only scattered fossil fragments, and the problem of relying on morphology is obvious.»

Likewise, certain aspects of group structure and social behaviour distinguish humans from other primates and almost certainly emerged through major evolutionary events, yet there has been no consensus on how to detect aspects of group behaviour in the fossil or archaeological records.

Scans of the fossil, a toe bone from South Africa, revealed a malignant tumor on the left foot of an unknown human relative.

In addition to being the oldest known example of an early primate skeleton, the new fossil is crucial in elucidating a pivotal event in primate and human evolution — the evolutionary divergence that led to modern monkeys, apes and humans (collectively known as anthropoids) on one branch, and to living tarsiers on the other.

«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.»

Habitual bipedal locomotion is a defining feature of modern humans compared with other primates, and the evolution of this behaviour in our clade would have had profound effects on the biologies of our fossil ancestors and relatives.

Since 1751, roughly the start of the Industrial Revolution, humans have burned the amount of fossil fuel that would have come from all the plants on Earth for 13,300 years.

► On Wednesday, also at ScienceInsider, David Malakoff reported that «[a] half - dozen academic journals are investigating allegations that aerospace engineer Willie Wei - Hock Soon, a prominent skeptic of the idea that humans are contributing to global warming, failed to disclose financial ties to a fossil fuel company in papers they published.»

The body dimensions used in the model — 30 kg for females, 55 kg for males — were based on a group of early human ancestors, or hominins, such as Australopithicus afarensis, the species that includes the famous Ethiopian fossil «Lucy.»

A different take comes from William H. Kimbel, director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, who argues on the basis of the advanced features of the face and pelvis that the new fossils «probably belong in the Homo genus.»

The new data, based on the analysis of fossils and specimens from 80 fossil beds and locations spanning 300 million years, imply an early start to the human - dominated era.

Based on sketchy fossil evidence, some anthropologists argue that Neanderthals could make limited vocalizations but that they lacked the full range of modern humans; in particular, they were probably limited in the vowel sounds they could produce.

It was clear that climate change is an energy problem — burning fossil fuels to generate energy accounts for 74 per cent of human - made greenhouse gas emissions — but I could see that it was very difficult to change the energy industry from the outside and very little was happening on the inside.

Researchers have harnessed the chemical degradation of fossil DNA to determine methylation patterns that may reveal which genes were turned on, or off, in ancient human species.