In his list of
revolutionary human ideas, Colin Barras includes lunar calendars, implying these allowed people to plan for seasonal events (25 October, p 32).
Not exact matches
«Vital Vio is an incredibly exciting company built on a truly
revolutionary breakthrough
idea — disinfecting without using harsh chemicals or other agents that could cause harm to
human health or engender resistance to treatment.
Moreover, for a certain kind of writer on the left,
ideas must bear a
revolutionary panache, and there is a frisson of defiance in taking one's stance with, say, the Druids of old (reinvented and sanitized, to be sure, without, for instance, the burning of
human sacrifices).
But Westerners could not grasp the
revolutionary idea that health - care professionals must reach out to help more than
human forms of life.
In the following 200 years, the
revolutionary ideas of freedom, equality, brotherhood and
human rights for all have spread further and further, inspiring a series of emancipations.
Like all
revolutionary movements, fascism in power had to restore order and prop up its own authority, diminishing
revolutionary ardor; but fascism in its main thrust sought to remake the
human world, to forge a new future» whether based on futurist
ideas, as with Mussolini, or on an imagined pagan past, as with Hitler» that would break decisively with the corrupt and weak present.
Two million years ago we were just your average primate — then we started to have some
revolutionary ideas and
human evolution went into hyper - drive
Colin Barras's article on
revolutionary ideas included details of milestones in
human evolution (25 October, p 32).