Sentences with phrase «over millennia by»

We evolved our intelligence over the millennia by drinking water, eating non-hallucinogenic organic materials, and, last but not least, by breathing non-smoke-filled foggy - mind - inducing air.

Fundy, in fact, has the world's highest tides and at Hopewell Rocks, which also has a visitor centre to explain the phenomenon, you can walk on the ocean floor at low tide and gaze up at the extraordinary shapes sculpted over the millennia by the rise and fall of billions of tonnes of water.

Lookouts and walkways connect these natural attractions formed over millennia by the surging power of the Southern Ocean.

It is easiest to critique Bingham by chiding him for ignoring the great stories that have been told over the millennia by Socrates and Aristotle, Moses and Jesus, Muhammad and Siddhartha, the Gitas and the Tao — all of which have nontrivial implications for the process of cultural evolution.

Not exact matches

REBBL makes elixirs and protein drinks that combine herbal wisdom as its evolved over a millennia with everyday needs and tastes, like Cold Brew with Maca (the famous Andean superfood beloved by the Inca and known to promote energy and stamina).

In the right set of circumstances, many multiples of that amount could incrementally flow into gold, a simple product that has been innately understood for millennia by human beings all over the globe.

Even more than the Constitution, which was written by a group of men over a span of months, the Bible, which was written by many different voices over millennia, is (to borrow from Souter) a «pantheon of values.»

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

Much more significant is the truly amazing unity of viewpoint, doctrine, and vision that this heterogeneous library of occasional writings, put together by more than forty writers over more than a millennium, displays.

I have discovered that the conservative evangelical church's viewpoint in the 1950's did not necessarily represent the viewpoint of other churches, nor the viewpoint held by the church over the previous two millennia.

Both bad Christian ideas — I wonder if the Mayflower thing was inspired by Christians seeing the Acts story as God's way — I think lots of Christians have over the millennia.

Until a little over a hundred years ago men were using the same means of travel as had been used for several millennia — the horse by land and the sailboat by water.

Islam Nusantara emphasizes that Indonesia is a country and people shaped by islands, coasts, ports, trade, and travel that over millennia have learned from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, and many other influences.

Just before the calendars ticked over from 1999 to 2000, one pastor was voted out of his job by church members who complained that he refused to preach warnings about the coming world disaster called the Millennium Bug (remember that non-event?).

are you really going to pretend that the opulent lifestyle of the religious oligarchy over the past millennia was not supported by the «donations» of the faithful?

Those with mild sensitivities to gluten may have luck eating this ancient grain as berries or ground into flour because it contains a different genome of gluten than modern wheat, and it has not been much changed by selective breeding over the millennia (note: spelt is not genetically engineered — a completely different process from selective breeding).

Over fifty millennia of existence by Aboriginal people have left an unimaginably long - term perspective and associated cultural practices.

The small size of the fruits were perfect for dissemination by birds, and the wild chiles spread all over South and Central America and up to what is now the United States border millennia before the domesticated varieties arrived.

Kim Little played the first half of Team GB's 1 - 0 victory over the Football Ferns at the Millennium Stadium on Wednesday, before being replaced by club team - mate Ellen White at the break.

This image shows the supernova debris shell, expanded greatly over the millennia, will a telltale spiral structure caused by the wobbling jets striking the inside of the shell and causing radio waves to be emitted.

The Pima endured these conditions for millennia, and geneticists believe that, over time, their bodies evolved a «thrifty genotype» — a set of genes that enabled them to subsist on very few calories by increasing the efficiency of their metabolism and storing as much energy as possible as fat.

We highlight episodes of climate change that have disrupted ecosystems and trophic interactions over time scales ranging from years to millennia by changing species» relative abundances and geographic ranges, causing extinctions, and creating transient and novel communities dominated by generalist species and interactions.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

In fact, the amount of global warming already guaranteed by existing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere — 392 ppm and still rising — will also play out over centuries, if not millennia.

As a result — and for reasons that remain unexplained — the waters of the Southern Ocean may have begun to release carbon dioxide, enough to raise concentrations in the atmosphere by more than 100 parts per million over millennia — roughly equivalent to the rise in the last 200 years.

The team attempted to develop an explanation for the anomalous solar activity data by comparing the features of the 14C change with those of other solar events known to have occurred over the last couple of millennia.

But they would die out one by one over millennia, at such a stately pace that a hypothetical human would hardly notice.

In comparing their computational predictions against the actual historical record provided by the Metaphor Map of English, researchers found that their models correctly forecast about 75 percent of recorded metaphorical language mappings over the past millennium.

Although we will not see immediate effects by tomorrow — some of the slow processes will only respond over centuries to millennia — the consequences for long - term ice melt and sea level rise could be substantial.

Towering tulip poplars, lush sassafras, and ground pines shared soil laid down inch by inch over the millennia.

This would still lead to substantial climate change, with the temperature rising by 2 °C to 5 °C and the sea level rising by 0.3 to 0.8 metres by 2100, and by 7 to 13 metres over the next millennium.

«Our species is defined by regular admixture of peoples and ideas over millennia,» said Jablonski.

THE STUDY «Climate Change and War Frequency in Eastern China Over the Last Millennium,» by David Zhang et al., published in the August 2007 issue of Human Ecology.

In the past decade, paleoclimatologists have reconstructed a record of climate change over the last millennium by consulting historical documents and examining indicators of temperature change like tree rings, as well as oxygen isotopes in ice cores and coral skeletons.

But in April, Egyptologists John Coleman Darnell and Deborah Darnell, a husband - and - wife team from Yale University, reported finding an ancient bulletin board there, a collection of notes carved in the rock face by travelers over the millennia — including what may be one of the world's oldest historical documents.

Over millennia, as natural selection bolstered our unconscious anthropomorphic tendencies, they reached beyond specific objects and events to encompass all of nature, goes Guthrie's theory, until we persuaded ourselves that «the entire world of our experience is merely a show staged by some master dramatist.»

Greenland temperature variations Veizer's paper argues that the local preindustrial climate fluctuations over the past millennium in Greenland were not driven by CO2.

That paper «Climate Over Past Millennia» relies on the correlation of temperature with tree ring width as proved by other people / papers.

A good discussion of this can be found in the review paper by Jones and Mann (2004 — see section 2.9 therein)[Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E., Climate Over Past Millennia, Reviews of Geophysics, 42, RG2002, doi: 10.1029 / 2003RG000143, 2004].

Mr. Cuccinelli is well known for his harassment of Michael Mann, a climate scientist vilified by industry apologists for creating the «Hockey Stick» graph illustrating the increase of average global temperature measurements over the last millennium.

The following passage contains an almost verbatim quote from the referenced 2001 paper by Jones et al (The Evolution of Climate Over the Last Millennium from Science), but is not block quoted.

Variations in CO2 over the last 420 kyr broadly followed antarctic temperature, typically by several centuries to a millennium (Mudelsee, 2001).

Most famously, in 2003, Soon co-authored a paper in the journal Climate Research that questioned the standard interpretation of climate change over the past millennium and argued that recent warming is not unusual by historical standards.

Gerber, S., et al., 2003: Constraining temperature variations over the last millennium by comparing simulated and observed atmospheric CO2.

However, one of the panel's reservations was that ``... a statistical method used in the 1999 study was not the best and that some uncertainties in the work «have been underestimated,»...» The panel concluded «Based on the analyses presented in the original papers by Mann et al. and this newer supporting evidence, the committee finds it plausible that the Northern Hemisphere was warmer during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period over the preceding millennium.

The Himalayas have been built up slowly by countless such earthquakes over millennia.»

Summer insolation decreased by 0.33 W m — 2 at 45 ° N over the millennium, winter insolation increased by 0.83 W m — 2 (Goosse et al., 2005a)(Errata), and the magnitude of the mean seasonal cycle of insolation in the NH decreased by 0.4 W m — 2.

With this in mind, I'd like to share some of the common wisdom accrued over a millennium and a half (give or take a century) of intermittent fasting on a yearly basis by Muslims.

Is it a dark and sinister practice developed by mankind over the millennia in order to manipulate others?

Along with his Millennium Falcon co-pilot L3 - E7 (voiced with gusto by Phoebe Waller - Bridge), he's a needed shot of nuance in a film that frequently bashes you over the head with its intentions.