Written by journalist Paul Salopek, it refers to his journey retracing the route
taken by ancestors who discovered the Earth 60,000 years ago.
Not exact matches
Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would
take the time to look up your dead
ancestor's name and then
take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in water on their behalf so that they (
by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the spirit of freedom of religion in what it advocates.
Jura Nanuk, founder & President of Central - European Religious Freedom Inst.itute, wrote the minister an open letter in which she stated: «Did it ever occur to you that instead of pretending to be a victim due to your hurt feelings you might show some compassion for people who were
taken to the brink of extinction
by your
ancestors?
Written
by one of his
ancestors, an Anglican Divine, it
took issue with all things Catholic.
The opposite tack,
taken by many moderns, is that each succeeding generation is ever so much more enlightened than its predecessors and can dispense with what passed for wisdom among the
ancestors.
Because for almost 13 thousand years this land was dominated and cultivated
by native Americans, who
took much, much better care of the land than our European
ancestors (and us) did.
The Victorians
took their «Games Ethic» from the playing fields of Eton and sent it overseas to «civilize» the
ancestors of many of the very people engaged
by SDP today.
We inherited from our cave - dad
ancestors hormonal flows and neural network development triggered
by their babies, that drove them to
take on the tremendous responsibilities babies presented.
According to Wall - Scheffler's research on the energetics of load carrying, the latter is the most likely option
taken not just
by humans but
by our first bipedal
ancestors.
«Through our mapping we have found the routes on the current landscape
by which our
ancestors may have walked, like motorways,
taking people from one water source to the next.
In fact, Martin argues that «the evolutionary paths
taken by most modern animals, whether these are crocodilians, turtles, birds, lungfish, amphibians, earthworms, insects, crustaceans, or mammals, are connected to their burrowing
ancestors.»
Ancestors of the duck - billed platypus and the echidna may have survived their live - birthing competitors
by taking to the water
Lake Malawi, shared
by Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania, is home to at least 500 species of cichlids, all of which probably
took less than a million years to evolve from a common
ancestor.
Miller - Struttmann and her colleagues then compared other decades - old data about plants visited
by the bees with recent work on bee visits, and discovered that these two species had acquired broader tastes than their recent
ancestors,
taking nectar from many more kinds of flowers than before.
Hosts infected
by viruses found new uses for the genetic material the agents of disease left behind; metabolic enzymes somehow came to refract light rays through the eye's lens; mammals
took advantage of the sutures between the skull bones to help their young pass through the birth canal; and, in the signature example, feathers appeared in fossils before the
ancestors of modern birds
took to the skies.
By turns wry and giddy, Cormier teases out our uniquely human
take on hedonism with tidbits as varied as the power of our orgasms (hint: no other creature on Earth can best us) and what the discovery of a 40,000 - year - old wooden flute reveals about music and our
ancestors.
I
took these comparative genomic scans to the next level
by writing a computer program to identify DNA sequences that are conserved in other animals but have changed rapidly in humans since we evolved from our common
ancestor with chimpanzees.
Adopting a Paleo diet can provide you with the opportunity to follow a diet plan inspired
by your
ancestors while
taking your health to the next level.
High T and M but less Na - containing foods were supposed to be
taken commonly
by the
ancestors of humans living on hunter - gatherers» foods like Aboriginal
ancestors for nearly 10 times longer than the period after the start of agriculture and farming.
We always trust our
ancestors» remedies and have rediscovered the benefits of olive leaves and olive oil
by taking advantage of this ingredient in many of our products.
Like nearly all of our family legends, this one has to be
taken on faith (my
ancestors were not given to writing things down) but as a boy I was more than willing to do so, and ever since, I have been fascinated
by the American bison, which at one time roamed through most of the North American continent, sixty million strong.
Today, those dogs»
ancestors keep their skills keen and their muscles well - developed
by taking part in dog sports like weight pulling.
The direct
ancestors of the Pembroke were brought across the channel
by the Flemish weavers who had been induced
by Henry I of England to
take up their abode in Wales.
Taken together, the installations invite viewers to, as Oka Doner puts it, tread the «initial neural pathways traveled
by remote
ancestors,» considering the ancient relationship between nature and language.
Artist Statement «The journey from both economic hardship and social injustice to America was
taken by almost all of our
ancestors.
When your friendly CC scientist informs you that your are scheduled to freeze to death in your home for the crime of the greed perpetrated
by your
ancestors,
take solace in the likelihood that the moderately paid overworked burgeoning middle class worker in the developing economies couldn't care a rat's because he's too busy raising a family and renovating his 2nd investment residence from wood heating into coal stove retro.