Sentences with phrase «small human group»

Neanderthal DNA from a femur offers scientists proof that a small human group left Africa and disappeared long before the ancient human migration that spearheaded modern human population.

Falk says the new findings challenge the idea that, starting around 5,000 years ago, states reduced rates of violence and war deaths characteristic of earlier, much smaller human groups (SN: 8/10/13, p. 10).

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Some games were made up of random groups of people, while others involved small groups of people who were connected to one another, similar to how humans tend to congregate in real - life scenarios.

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For Christians exile has been not only a condition forced upon a small group of people but a state into which everyone was called by God for their human maturation — a place of formation, where attitudes and motivations were molded by a community without earthly roots.

Religion was invented by human beings during the Neolithic period, that's the time frame where humans went from roaming hunter gatherer groups to small permanent farming villages.

So, it was not just the small group of Jesus» followers who were confused about the future; many in Roman society were searching for a system of meaning that would make sense out of their experience of human life.

Every human being, whatever his age or social position, needs a small group to nurture his personal growth.

To maximize the fulfillment of human potentials, the organizations of a community — schools, churches, agencies, and others — should develop small groups designed to meet the growth needs of persons at each of the eight life stages.

But it is here, in my view, that the importance becomes manifest of an intuitive notion which, timidly evolved less than fifty years ago by a small group of human minds, is now beginning to pervade twentieth century thought as rapidly as did the idea of evolution in the nineteenth century.

In every form of human belonging there is the tension between «me as an individual» and «me as a part of the group,» large or small.

In such a society one could see a certain role for oriental religious groups and the human potential movement — perhaps even for a small radical political fringe.

Instead of profit maximization for self or a small group, service to all would be a powerful motivation for creativity and a fair distribution of natural resources and of the fruit of human labour.

The human species currently consists of some six billion individuals spread around the globe in millions of groups large and small, all focused on their own affairs without much concept of any ultimate goal, or the value of their contribution.

However it is important to note that only a small proportion of civil society groups are involved in the protests; namely those groups that are based in Bujumbura who are focused on governance and human rights issues and regard themselves as watchdog responsible for holding the government to account.

So you can't find a way to act a human to a human, a small group with an agenda has a defense ready.

If you follow the evolution of human society per the theory of the early philosophers: Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau; it is posited that when humans decided to move from a state of survival of the fittest in which they roamed in the bush mainly in small family groups and decided to settle in larger societal groups, they needed rules and regulations to order society.

«The initial dispersals out of Africa prior to 60,000 years ago were likely by small groups of foragers, and at least some of these early dispersals left low - level genetic traces in modern human populations.

Podcast host Steve Mirsky talks with human evolution expert Kate Wong about the small group of humans who survived tough times beginning about 195,000 years ago and gave rise to all of us, a story told in the cover article of the August issue of Scientific American, our 165th anniversary edition.

Sugar gliders can form very strong bonds with their human families, but as highly social animals they should live in pairs or small groups and must have a spacious enclosure, as well as a carefully monitored diet.

So understanding how they and their extinct relatives diversified could open a window on how language itself emerged among small social groups in the distant human past.

«Most of the time there are only small frequency differences between human groups, so when there are big frequency differences, they really stand out.»

A big skull was not conducive to easy births, and thus a within - group pressure toward smaller heads was probably always present, as it still is in present - day humans, who have an unusually high infant mortality rate due to big - headed babies.

A small group of human studies have been done on a drug called propranolol, which blocks the action of stress neurotransmitters that help cement memories in the brain, but LeDoux's work shows the potential for greater precision.

Instead, small groups of African H. sapiens continually traveled into Arabia and beyond starting nearly 100,000 years ago or earlier, suggests Martinόn - Torres, who directs the National Research Center on Human Evolution in Burgos, Spain.

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.

In the past, nutritional scientists have largely relied on studies of animals, small groups of people, and / or petri - dish biochemistry that may not reflect the vagaries of human metabolism, although Willett uses such studies when he deems it appropriate.

Rather than emerging from one small population, the human species likely evolved from a dispersed, complex network of groups that mixed and mated with each other, scientists report online September 20 in Science.

Evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare, also at Duke, is part of a small group of scientists who think they might know how humans evolved this ability, sometime during the 5 million to 7 million years since we shared a common ancestor with other primates.

When the worms were healthy, they housed a large population of Bacteroides — a group of helpful, supportive, symbiotic bacteria — and a smaller population of Proteobacteria — a group that contains a number of dangerous human pathogens.

Other human populations evolved from subsets of that diverse population, as small groups migrated around the globe just a few tens of thousands of years ago.

One of the puzzling and fascinating things about humans is that we have the ability to form enormous groups — the United States, with 290 million people, or Britain, with 60 million people — that are led by very small numbers of individuals.

Humans tend to form even smaller groups and mate within them.

Others included clustered networks, in which a small group had multiple connections — an arrangement that was designed to mimic real life, where humans often run in packs socially and at work.

From 50,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago, when humans lived in small groups of hunter - gatherers, the rate of killing was «statistically indistinguishable» from the predicted rate of 2 %, based on archaeological evidence, Gómez and his colleagues report today in Nature.

But a small group of experts now says that the fracture patterns on the bones, found during highway construction near San Diego, California, must have been left by humans pounding them with stones found nearby.

Varki studies siglecs, small groups of receptors that thickly stud the immune T cells of monkeys and apes but are few and far between in humans.

Or a small group of radicals developing a highly contagious strain of H5N1 influenza that could be spread by human contact.

A group of small lemurs that has no fear of humans and live on a tiny island smaller than New York's Central Park could be a new species of primate

Humans are all so closely related that our entire population shows less genetic diversity than that of a small group of chimpanzees.

His group is testing the mini-motor in silicone models of human arteries and planning even smaller versions.

A small group of scientists has apparently intrigued the White House with a plan to map human brain activity

The humans that left Africa probably carried only a limited number of HLA alleles as they likely travelled in small groups.

Broccoli sprout extract protects against oral cancer in mice and proved tolerable in a small group of healthy human volunteers, the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), partner with UPMC CancerCenter, announced today at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

Balafoutas describes the underlying theory as follows: «Our basic assumption is that humans, in contrast to animals, cooperate with each other on various levels — not just in small groups, but also with strangers.»

According to fossil evidence, small primates — a group of mammals that includes humans and our closest monkey relatives — first arrived in Jamaica during the Miocene (23 million to 25 million years ago), probably on mats of vegetation that can form during major weather events, like hurricanes, that could have carried them from the American mainland.

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.

Even as the Obama administration is turning its back on human exploration of the moon, a small but persistent group of entrepreneurs are pursuing their own plans to embrace it.

Though successful when applied to well - defined technological goals such as building rockets or decoding the genome, are big - budget initiatives run by a small group of scientists and administrators the best way to develop something as basic as a new understanding of the human brain?

The project behind the Human Protein Atlas started as a small research project at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in the research group of Professor Mathias Uhlén in 2000.