Sentences with phrase «primitive ancestors»

In a characteristic act of irreverence, the artists have transposed their own faces onto these two primordial bodies, casting their likenesses in the image of our primitive ancestors, and provocatively positioning themselves at the dawn of creation.

It takes you back to the days of our primitive ancestors who did not have to worry about diseases such as diabetes or obesity.

Without the ability to scan a public Facebook profile or Google a person's background info, our primitive ancestors needed to make snap decisions — friend or foe.

Unsurprising seeing as the cold hard facts show that nutritional ketosis is the closest diet to what our primitive ancestors survived on.

More than 500 million years ago a set of specialized enzymes and proteins evolved to defend our primitive ancestors against assaults from the outside world.

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

Our primitive ancestors used those sorts of things to solve problems on how to get food, mate, defend, etc..

It is reasonable to suppose that parallel with these new developments in society there was also the emergence of a new structure of existence, a structure that distinguishes civilized man from his primitive ancestors.

Our primitive ancestors three millennia ago lived in an animistic realm of nature - spirit - wind gods, cloud - spirits, and the like.

Altruism, empathy, compassion and morality are what allowed our primitive ancestors to begin to form civilizations.

Most of those gods represented natural phenomena that our relatively primitive ancestors had no way of understanding.

In his essay «The Golden Rule in the Light of New Insight,» Harvard psychoanalyst Erik Erikson comments: «systematic students of ethics often indicate a certain disdain for this all - too - primitive ancestor of more logical principles; and Bernard Shaw found the rule an easy target: don't do to another what you would like to be done by, he warned, because his tastes may differ from yours» (Insight and Responsibility [Norton, 1964], p. 226).

Donoghue now believes the fossils represent a more primitive ancestor of animals.

In order to provide a complete and healthy diet, we should ultimately mimic the diet of our pet's primitive ancestor.

Not exact matches

«This early ancestor possessed primitive teeth and a small brain but it stood upright and walked on two feet.

The more I have studied the bible, and believe me I have spent years studying it and other religious books, the more I see this as a hangover from primitive days when our ancestors had no scientific knowledge and had to imagine gods to explain things.

What the anti-choicers don't tell you is that those embryos are tiny, bean - sized growths that have gill slits left over from our fish ancestors and tails left over from our primitive mammalian ancestors.

>> > «What the Pro-Lifers don't tell you is that those embryos are tiny, bean - sized growths that have gill slits left over from our fish ancestors and tails left over from our primitive mammalian ancestors.

Of her earliest faith we can not safely say more than that it was inherited and uncritically accepted from ancestors who had come, by the ways that have shaped the mind of primitive man, to a relatively high polytheism.

Origins of such a notion go far back in human history, to primitive days when our remote ancestors thought that some special anima indwelt human bodies; it was given additional support by the teaching of certain of the Greeks, with their insistence on the soul as entirely distinct from, yet temporarily the tenant of, the body — at its most extreme this expressed itself in the saying soma sema, «the body is the prison - house of the soul».

We've been cooking forever, but if you think about it, while technology and software have wormed their way into almost every aspect of our lives, cooking is still very, very primitive — we still cook over an open flame, like our ancestors millennia ago.

Using information from fossils, and the DNA of living species, we were able to further determine that at around 24 million years old, Palaeopotorous is not just primitive, but likely represents the most distant forerunner of all known kangaroos, rat - kangaroos and their more ancient ancestors,» said Dr den Boer.

«Most primitive kangaroo ancestor rediscovered after 30 years in obscurity.»

Two 9.7 - million - year - old fossil teeth found in Germany probably belong to a primitive primate and something like a deer, not an early human ancestor as has been reported

Proponents now believe the finds suggest that the first human ancestors to leave Africa may have been far more anatomically primitive — and may have left far earlier — than previously thought.

The fossils» mix of primitive and more evolved characteristics — such as small brains but body proportions similar to our own — defies how we currently classify our distant ancestors and relatives.

«When people think about our ancient ancestors, they either tend to have a view that our ancestors must have been primitive, less culturally diverse, or they take the view that our ancestors were probably extraordinarily culturally impressive,» says Peter Hiscock, an archaeologist at the University of Sydney who was not involved in the study.

«As for dwarfing, if Homo erectus were its ancestor, it would have had to do more than dwarf; it would have had to re-evolve a more primitive body design from head to toe.»

Rather than one group predating the other, «both groups evolved different adaptations, and they've also retained different primitive features from their ancestor,» Giles explains.

Mitochondrial merger Eukaryotes have a number of innovations compared to their more primitive archaeon ancestors.

This suggested to some that they had a more primitive gait and that the transition to fully modern walking didn't happen until our direct ancestor, Homo erectus, emerged about 1.9 million years ago.

«This is evidence of the most northerly record for primitive bears, and provides an idea of what the ancestor of modern bears may have looked like,» says Dr. Xiaoming Wang, lead author of the study and Head of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLA).

This is the famous site of Dmanisi, Georgia, which offers an unparalleled glimpse into a harsh early chapter in human evolution, when primitive members of our genus Homo struggled to survive in a new land far north of their ancestors» African home, braving winters without clothes or fire and competing with fierce carnivores for meat.

Like Rightmire, he thinks the fossils represent an early, primitive form of H. erectus, which had evolved from a H. habilis — like ancestor and still bore some primitive features shared with H. habilis.

This ancient individual had small front teeth like a modern human but larger molars like a more primitive human ancestor.

Modern corn, the author argues, had not one ancestor but two: it is derived from a cross between a primitive corn and a perennial form of the wild grass teosinte.

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.

What we don't know is what primitive wings were used for before bird ancestors could fly.

If those descendants do turn out to be better, wiser people than us, will they marvel that primitive beings managed so well, the same way we're awed by the best of our ancestors?

They are some of the most primitive animals on the planet, closely descended from the common ancestors of all animal life.

He says the research team chose the two species because they are among the most primitive forms of fish, so they can provide more clues about the bodies of their long - dead ancestors.

That comes as another surprise: Most primitive living primates are nocturnal, so paleontologists inferred that the common primate ancestor was too.

The primitive traits in this 3.4 - million - year - old partial right foot also show that there was more than one way for early human ancestors to walk upright for at least a million years, according to a new study.

While many would be repulsed by these creatures, lamprey are exciting to biologists because they are so primitive, retaining many characteristics similar to their ancient ancestors and thus offering answers to some of life's biggest evolutionary questions.

Smell is a primitive sense that our early ancestors used for foraging, hunting and mating, among other skills necessary for survival.

Scientists think that this family evolved by gene duplication, branch by branch, from a single ancestor present in primitive vertebrates.

These new findings raise the possibility that the ancestor of H. floresiensis was not Homo erectus but instead some other, more primitive, hominin whose dispersal into southeast Asia is still undocumented.»

Spores of ancient liverworts from 473 to 471 million years ago support the hypothesis that these primitive plants are probably the ancestors of all modern plants (more).

These features distinguish the early species on the Homo lineage from the more apelike early Australopithecus, yet the fossil's primitive, sloping chin links it to a Lucy - like ancestor.

A hallmark of H. heidelbergensis — the potential common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans — is that individuals have a mixture of primitive and modern features.