Sentences with phrase «other ancestors by»

The wholesale posthumous filing of baptism papers for thousands of holocaust victims and other ancestors by people of the Mormon faith is in violation of a 1995 agreement.

Not exact matches

DNA - testing companies determine where your genes are from by comparing you to other users who are known to have ancestors from that region.

In other words, we are held responsible by your sky - god for things our ancestors did.

He's not mean, He is just and gives people what they want And no, he is all powerful, if He could do it, then he wouldn't be all powerful And again no, he made Adam and Eve (sustained them too) and all our other ancestors thus, no, God gave you life And no, He is constant and reliable and is continually backed up by history and science And no, you're not paying for them, Jesus Christ died and paid for your sins and mine.

Can we rely on the irrational interpretations by our primitive ancestors to pass judgments on the thoughts of others?

There can be little doubt that our ancestors, not least in Victorian times, seemed often to be obsessed by the thought of death, both their own and that of other persons.

In this regard, they were encouraged by the words of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: «Our quarreling ancestors were in reality much closer to each other when in all their disputes they still knew that they could only be servants of one truth which must be acknowledged as being as great and as pure as it has been intended for us by God.»

Before he became pope, Benedict wrote that «our quarrelling ancestors were in reality much closer to each other when in all their disputes they still knew that they could only be servants of one truth which must be acknowledged as being as great and as pure as it has been intended for us by God.»

Get into a country store and sit on the cracker - box by the side of two or three Georgia «colonels» and «majors,» and they will tell any number of tales about how their ancestors bought their estates from the Indians and to close up the bargain gave the «noble red men» a barbecue, consisting of venison and sweetened hoe - cake, followed by plenty of imported rum and other «firewaters.»

Our ancestors» most pressing sleep problem was getting through the night without being threatened by predators, intruders, and other dangers.

By comparing five Canaanite genomes with those of other ancient and modern populations, the researchers identified the Canaanites» ancestors and discovered their descendants, modern Lebanese people.

«This causes a shakeup in the fish family tree, which indicates that the ancestor shared by all ray - finned fishes lived tens of millions of years after previously thought, maybe in the aftermath of a mass extinction event around 360 million years ago that decimated many other groups,» said Friedman, an associate curator at the U-M Museum of Paleontology and an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

King hypothesizes that proteins that the single - celled ancestors of animals used to interact with the extracellular environment — to capture bacterial prey by binding to their cell surface and to detect chemical signals — were later repurposed to enable cells to stick to and talk to each other.

Ichnologists study tracks and traces and other signs of living creatures, including the footprints left by our human and pre-human ancestors.

Miller - Struttmann and her colleagues then compared other decades - old data about plants visited by the bees with recent work on bee visits, and discovered that these two species had acquired broader tastes than their recent ancestors, taking nectar from many more kinds of flowers than before.

Although other primate fossils are technically older, some by at least 500,000 years, the latest examples are the most primitive in terms of evolutionary development, and likely approximate our oldest primate ancestors.

By turns wry and giddy, Cormier teases out our uniquely human take on hedonism with tidbits as varied as the power of our orgasms (hint: no other creature on Earth can best us) and what the discovery of a 40,000 - year - old wooden flute reveals about music and our ancestors.

But as they moved out of the trees and began walking upright on the ground in the past 5 million years or so, the foot had to become more stable, and bit by bit, the big toe, which was no longer opposable, aligned itself with the other toes and our ancestors developed an arch to work as a shock absorber.

With the invention of electric light bulbs in the 1870s, followed by the development of television, the Internet, and other high tech devices, researchers have argued that the duration of sleep has been shortened from the «natural» levels evolved in our hunter - gatherer ancestors.

But there's building concern among geneticists and others that the tests performed, both by companies and in academic labs, may not be very accurate, largely because they match samples to «reference» populations of a particular ancestor who may or may not perfectly fit the desired profile.

The other theory suggested that these ancestors were originally found in the tropics, and evolved migration by moving breeding grounds to more temperate locales like North America.

The fact is that one school of thought («Regional Continuity») believes that all Middle Pleistocene Homo were really a genetic continuum, ancestral as a whole to modern humans; another («Replacement») believes that only the African ones were our ancestors, and the others more or less died out, replaced by the newcomers from Africa.

I took these comparative genomic scans to the next level by writing a computer program to identify DNA sequences that are conserved in other animals but have changed rapidly in humans since we evolved from our common ancestor with chimpanzees.

By the end of the Pleistocene, when the last great ice age ebbed, other human ancestors were gone, humans had settled the Americas and long - range weapons like spears and arrows were common — and the average mass of mammals had fallen from nearly 100 kg (220 pounds) to less than eight.

Paleoanthropologists have disagreed about how they relate to other human groups, some positing they were ancestors of both modern humans and Neanderthals, others that they were a nonancestral species replaced by the Neanderthals, who spread across Europe.

The CP system would rip him off the couch and get him flying in the direction of the exit and then when that immediate energy source was burned, some five or six seconds later, he'd have to rely on one or other of his other two energy systems; this is exactly the same process used by our ancestors when confronted head - on by a sabre - toothed tiger.

The types of fats historically consumed by our ancestors were the most easily extractable — butter and other animal fats such as tallow and lard, coconut and palm oil, olive oil, sesame oil, small amounts of flaxseed oil and fish liver oils.

We need to eat more butterfat from pasture - fed animals, more lard from pigs raised outdoors, more eggs from pastured - poultry, and more shrimp and other seafood rich in vitamin D. And we need to recognize the demonization of butter and similar healthy foods for what it is — a ploy, bolstered by the phony cholesterol theory, that has convinced Americans to substitute imitation foods for the nourishing foods of their ancestors.

A growing body of scientific evidence supports a Paleo - style diet based on the foods eaten by our ancestors — free of processed and refined ingredients and other by - products of modern food production.

By comparing the physical properties of orangutans» teeth and food with those of other primates, scientists may someday be able to tease out the diets of our ancestors, Vogel said.

I'm a single dad divorce of 2 kids and live by myself working all the time... I'm a good hearted person that try to help others when I could... I have Indian in my family in my ancestor back ground..

Invite students to research and prepare to teach activities played by their ancestors (if they are unable to do this, other activity options are listed below).

As so much had been borrowed from a glorious past it came as no surprise that the new model was by a certain margin more expensive than any other Bentley motor car - there had been the case with its famous ancestors too like for example the Gurney Nutting Sedanca Coupé on Bentley Mark VI chassis, the most expensive coachwork on Bentley during the early post-war period...

Because Germany as a country did not exist until 1871, many of the ancestors of today's German Americans would not have emigrated from Germany itself but from other parts of Europe that were dominated by German speakers during the height of the Holy Roman Empire (which had its center in the Kingdom of Germany, just one of the many kingdoms that were unified to form modern day Germany).

Because Germany as a country did not exist until 1871, many of the ancestors of today's German Americans would not have emigrated from Germany itself but from other parts of Europe that were dominated by German speakers during the height of the Holy Roman Empire (which had its center in the Kingdom of Germany, just one of the...

From its ancestor's beginnings as a cattle driving dog and puller of carts the breed has been developed for use in a wide range of activities by modern man including service dogs, therapy animals, top - ranked obedience, tracking, and other performance dogs including use as search and rescue dogs across the country (even the World Trade Center recovery site).

Since the venom is harmless to humans (and a majority of other animals), many researchers believe it was once a trait used by the lizard's ancestors in the past when hunting.

Other ancestors include Venus with her reflection in a mirror by Titian, a fallen idol at Nineveh, figurines from the office of Sigmund Freud, and implicitly Freud himself.

In fact, a group of Maya leaders declared, «The mission is to return to our Mother Earth... to begin a new B'aqtun that was proclaimed by our ancestors, a new era in which the values of love, solidarity, brotherhood, loyalty, self - respect, and respect for others and all humanity can flourish.»

We will encounter the Visconti «maquétothèque» of the Monte - Carlo Opera, Eugène Frey's fabulous luminous decors, the Marquis du Périer de Mouriez's strange collection of transparent paintings, plus the religious boxes from the Galéa Collection made by the Provencal Carmelites and a thousand other from the reserve collection that evoke the cabinets of curiosities of the 17th and 18th centuries, the ancestors of European museums.

I suggest look at the fossil sequences of human ancestors from early apes to australopithicus, homo erectus and homo habilis to homo sapiens, and notice how they morph one into the other quite smoothly, all explained by Darwinian evolution, while with respect the old testament verision is clearly a creation myth like you find in early greek and roman culture etc, an imaginative guess, and very implausible in light of our current understanding of things.

=== It is fairly likely that any «advanced version control system» people use has an early ancestor or at least inspiration in PWB / UNIX Source Code Control System (1974 --RRB-, which was developed by Marc Rochkind (next office) and Alan Glasser (my office - mate) with a lot of kibitzing from me and a few others.

Your earliest ancestor, perhaps one named Glug, was only concerned about food, clothing, shelter and being eaten by any number of other Glugs.