Sentences with phrase «stretch of human history»

It took a long stretch of human history for zero to be recognized and appreciated.

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@Kyle, I never suggested that I said that if research had been done in the proper fields, most rational people would question their faith I guess archaeology is bit of a stretch as it is more of a human history based field but there were civilizations more than 6000 years ago

The new study, led by Johannes Krause, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, used next - generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and fish out those that resembled humanHuman History in Jena, Germany, used next - generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and fish out those that resembled humanhuman DNA.

Horse breeding records are some of the most impressive efforts to chronicle animal lineages in human history, with some stretching back thousands of years.

But for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people there have been changes of government and policy before, and they are able to see a single line of history stretching through from invasion, to «soothing a dying people,» to the Stolen Generation, to suspension of the Human Rights Act and an army occupation.

In the absence of research indicating otherwise, and in the context of human history and anthropological observations of societies over eons, the position which stretches credulity is the one which presumes that there are no other differences in any other ways than physically between mothers and fathers.