Sentences with phrase «take on human evolution»

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Obviously, awanderingscot still has not crossed the road to find the historical Jesus nor has he taken the recommended course on human evolution.

In Part 2, this book attempts, tentatively, to take stock of just where we humans are in the evolution of human culture on this planet, to explore the significance of entering a new era that is both global and post-Christian, and to look into the future.

Barkun devotes several chapters to the recent evolution of this hybrid superconspiracy theory, which includes a variant — derived from 1920s pulp fiction with an assist from Tolkien — in which the conspirators are not space aliens but reptilian creatures from Inner Earth who take on human form.

Not to metion we still have the «missing link» issue where at one point (based on evolution) the human brain advanced very quickly with very little time for evolution to take place.

«Because globalization as a culturally homogenizing and environment - devouring force is coming on so fast, there is a real danger that in just a few decades it could wipe out the ecological and cultural diversity that took millions of years of human and biological evolution to produce.»

In the process of humanization, on the other hand, the evolution takes place within the context of the historical, from an uncivilized, impersonal, inhuman historical situation, for example, to a civilized, interpersonal and more human one.

Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].

The chapter on origins, for example, takes a quick tour through the big bang, the formation of Earth, the history of the continents, the origin of life, its evolutionary history, plus human evolution — and all in less than 40 pages.

Also in this issue, we take a trip to Harvard's brain bank where thousands of specimens are waiting to be studied, and we take on a burning question of human evolution: If our brains our shrinking, are we more efficient, or just not as bright?

I enjoyed September's «Great Mysteries of Human Evolution» by Carl Zimmer, but I take issue with the statement «Putting a stone ax on the end of a stick to make a spear would have allowed these hominids to become much better hunters, and yet this simple idea apparently never occurred to them.»

The Rutgers Earth System Science & Policy Lab takes a transdisciplinary, computationally intensive approach to investigating the evolution of the Earth system, human influences on the Earth system, and policy approaches for managing those human influences.

For a less Hollywood take on the life of Charles Darwin, pick up the best - selling book on which Creation is based, Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution, written by Darwin's great - great - grandson, Randal Keynes.

On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black - market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its heaOn a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black - market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its heaon its head.

... fails to take into account that today's domestic dogs evolved in close association with humans, living on human scraps... (evolution) favored opportunistic scavengers...

Antony Gormley takes Culture Editor Matt Cain on a tour of his studio, and reveals the evolution of his work into a new project exploring the human body and the space it occupies.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

We talked about books, focusing on the layers around my desk — ranging from «Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan... And the World» to «The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment.»

amazing thread outstanding people... excluding moi Background: born into a Pat Conroy novel... third from the left on human evolution chart... learned before age 10 how to hit a curve ball and that it can take more than 10 years for shrapnel to work it's way out of one's body

Though playing off a similar idea - that some type of catastrophic showdown is coming our way at the end of the current Mayan calendar in December 2012 - this new movie «2012: Time for Change» is actually an animated documentary that takes a positive spin on our joint ecological predicament - positing that an evolution of human consciousness could get us back in tune with nature and make humans more able to be positive stewards rather than wanton destroyers of our world.

Likewise if you are working on the history of philosophy you might take an interest in the rise of religions or science and turn to either Hegel or Marx with their grand narratives attempting to explain the evolution of human civilization, whereas if you are interested in the history of philosophy you might consider Frederick Copleston — who is largely just trying to describe in layman's terms and in chronological order different philosophical systems.