Sentences with phrase «other modern groups»

They have long defied classification but are generally accepted to be the most primitive living ray - finned fish, separated from the other modern groups by a host of long - extinct fossil fish.
No other modern group carries the Tibetan variant of EPAS1.

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They would do much better to take this lesson and look into how they as a majority group have persecuted others than to create yet more imaginary stories of modern day persecution in the Christian dominated United States.
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.
Research has shown that, with modern tranquilizers and detoxification methods, alcoholics cause no greater disturbance than any other group of seriously ill patients.
Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.
We are today called upon to be in solidarity with many other groups who are made helpless in modern society The needs of the handicapped should receive serious attention.
Wesley's emphasis on the small group — most famously, his disciplined, close - knit «CLASS meetings» — has shaped the landscape of modern American spirituality through «cell groups,» Bible studies, and many other small - group modes of fellowship and worship.
On the other hand, the number of Christians who consider themselves members of this group is so remarkably large that it must startle the innocent outsider who, preoccupied with the problems of modern life, is apt to underestimate the number of those who cultivate their Christian traditionalism with a loyalty as curious as it is admirable.
But take a look at the carnage in the Thirty Years War, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availability.
I had about much faith in this hoax as I do in most modern day religious group who claim anything if people did read the bible they would know before the rapture can happen Israel has to rebuild their temple on it original soil which is still held by 2 other groups.
Sixth century ideas in the 21st century has brought about more death, pain and destruction across the world than the ideas of any other one group in modern times.
China Mengniu Dairy Company has invested more than 5 billion yuan (US$ 73.2 million) in Modern Farming Group Co Ltd to manufacture pasteurized milk products and other low - temperature dairy products.
Today in modern society, frozen fruits and vegetables constitute a large and important food group among other frozen food products (Arthey, 1993).
While online support groups can serve as a springboard for meeting other mothers, modern technology will never be able to replace the human hug as the most ideal form of understanding and encouragement.
Thankfully, most doctors who are not familiar with heart monitors and other modern medical procedures are retired or deceased by now so this group is getting smaller as time goes by.
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The phrase «the working class» appears more often than it would in the memoirs of a true Blairite (as in the other Blair), always as the description of a group in modern Britain who are downtrodden and defended by the Labour Party.
The study also gives paleontologists new reason to scrutinize early Paleocene rocks, not to mention existing museum collections, for signs of other representatives of modern bird groups, Witmer says.
In all, it is now clear that modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and perhaps other hominin groups likely overlapped in time and space in Asia, and they certainly had many instances of interaction.
The Amsterdam - based InterAcademy Council — a group that represents 150 national scientific and engineering academies — released a report this week detailing how countries can shift from burning coal and other greenhouse - gas emitting fuels to cleaner energy while also introducing modern forms of energy to the billions worldwide who rely on charcoal, firewood or even dung as their fuel.
«The weak activity previously published for the ACT family as a whole probably explains why this group was not further evaluated, and it is intriguing to think that other potentially useful antibiotic groups are languishing in obscurity in academic journals just needing expert review using modern processes and equipment.»
Professor Thomas Higham said: «Other recent studies of Neanderthal and modern human genetic make - up suggest that both groups interbred outside Africa, with 1.5 % -2.1 % or more of the DNA of modern non-African human populations originating from Neanderthals.
Pääbo, for his part, says that now that his team has shown that early modern humans interbred with one archaic group, he thinks other archaic humans might have passed along genes to us through interbreeding.
But within days skeptics emerged, countering that the tiny remains instead belonged to a small - bodied population of modern humans and that LB1 — with her tiny brain and other odd features — was a diseased member of the group.
That discovery, combined with other fossil finds in North America that are related to chickens, turkeys, flamingos, and loons, among others, suggests that most major groups of modern birds originated and began to diversify before the K - T boundary.
By way of explanation, the investigators suggest that the interbreeding occurred in the Middle East between 45,000 and 80,000 years ago, before moderns fanned out to other parts of the Old World and split into different groups.
It is the earliest group to diverge from all other modern humans ever identified (Genome Biology and Evolution, doi.org/v59).
«The anterior sclerite has been lost in modern arthropods, as it most likely fused with other parts of the head during the evolutionary history of the group,» said Dr Javier Ortega - Hernández, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences, who authored the study.
In his new book, The War on Science, Shawn Otto documents the modern clash between what he calls the «authoritarians» (governments, large corporations, and religious groups) and the «antiauthoritarians» (scientists and other liberal thinkers).
«While all of the anatomical details in the Misliya fossil are fully consistent with modern humans, some features are also found in Neandertals and other human groups,» said Quam, associate professor of anthropology at Binghamton.
It also means that modern humans were potentially meeting and interacting during a longer period of time with other archaic human groups, providing more opportunity for cultural and biological exchanges.»
Because scientists know Neandertals and modern humans mated with each other, «is it possible that the «modern» DNA these late Neandertal groups picked up included genes for enhanced cognitive abilities?»
What happened was this: Modern humans evolved from hunter - gatherer groups that were rather isolated from each other to increasingly cooperative groups that formed social networks across the landscape.
They conclude that, like most other living Eurasians, Aborigines descend from a single group of modern humans who swept out of Africa 50,000 to 60,000 years ago and then spread in different directions.
The species name xenarthrosus refers to the odd way the creature's spinal vertebrae interlock and stiffen the back, similar to modern - day armadillos, anteaters, and other mammals in a group called xenarthrans.
«I think early modern humans viewed Neanderthals as a different group, as «the other,»» he says.
[It's dangerous to] make modern metaphors but if you look at colonial metaphors, when European travelers went to the Americas and to Australia, the gene flow tended to be more into the native groups than the other way around.
The international group of researchers analyzed the genomes of 48 avian species that represent the evolutionary history of modern birds and compared them to many other vertebrates to find DNA sequences specific to avians.
Over the course of hominin (modern humans and their fossil ancestors) evolution, molars have changed markedly in their configuration, with some groups developing larger cusps and others evolving molars with a battery of smaller extra cusps.
As no other taxonomic group contains terrestrial animals in the size classes of the large modern mammals, the functional loss of large mammals can rarely be compensated, leading to permanent ecosystem changes [49].
We observed that East African populations exhibit a much larger degree of genetic diversity than other global groups, which further supports the Out - of - Africa theory (that postulates that modern humans originated in East Africa and migrated out of the continent to populate the world)» says Dr. Koehler.
The lone PI, working independently and aloof from other groups, is doomed to fail in this modern world of high - throughput, big data science.
Rhys - Jones believes that this ``... extraordinary situation» is due to Kow Swamp people being a - ``... relict group of the original occupants of Australia... «41 Thorne believes the two distinct Australian groups -LRB-» modern» Mungo and «primitive» Kow Swamp) had separate ancestries - one from Java and the other from ancient China.43
In this model, known as multiregionalism or continuity with hybridization, hominins descended from H. erectus in Asia interbred with incoming groups from Africa and other parts of Eurasia, and their progeny gave rise to the ancestors of modern east Asians, says Wu.
The modern human sequences in the Altai Neanderthal appear to derive from a group of modern human ancestors from Africa that separated early from other humans, about the time present - day African populations diverged from one another, around 200,000 years ago.
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.
Early modern groups evolved in parallel with each other and exchanged members to give rise to modern population groups.
Dr. Price observed that both their dental health and overall health were superior to other people groups who subsisted on modern, processed foods, like white bread, sugar, and canned foods.
Groups with other variants of the ApoE gene are not immune to the ravages of the modern diet.
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