Sentences with phrase «theory of human origins»

That year, influential primatologist Richard Wrangham proposed a theory of human origins called the «cooking hypothesis.»

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Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.

Evolution and the Fall is a collection of essays from a multi-disciplinary and ecumenical group of authors, which sets out to address «a set of problems that arise from the encounter of traditional biblical views of human origins with contemporary scientific theories» (p. xv)-- not, one might add, in general, to answer them.

For those of us who are comfortable with a theory of evolution that acknowledges the common origin of the human and animal kingdoms, the scientific evidence that corroborates this syndrome of dominance in the mythic Genesis accounts is of special interest.

Through his knowledge of Indian religion and culture, he did not submit himself to a racial theory of any kind which will fit into the scheme of «human origin» advocated by the Naturwissenschaft school.

The term moderate evolution might therefore be applied to a theory which simply inquires into the biological reality of man in accordance with the formal object of the biological sciences as defined by their methods and which affirms a real genetic connection between that human biological reality and the animal kingdom, but which also in accordance with the fundamental methodological principles of those sciences, can not and does not attempt to assert that it has made a statement adequate to the whole reality of man and to the origin of this whole reality.

Yet it stands head and shoulders above its nearest rival; its separateness inheres, not in theories of its origin and nature, but in the solid facts of its worth and of its impact upon human society in the way both of rebuke to the low and bestial and of exaltation of an impossible ideal, toward which, nonetheless, it has attracted and impelled.

What's more, since the only designing intelligence that could have played a role in the origin and history of life (including human life) must have been nonhuman, my theory of design detection is irrelevant and misleading for biology.

The irony is that evolutionists have no plausible theory to pit against religious accounts of human origins.

I've read material on one site (the site has 5K + pages, of which I read less than 100) that uses Velikosky as part of the starting point for a theory of the origin of the universe, and subsequently humans, that is congruent with Genesis, but also both explains and predicts things not found in that account.

Birmingham, U.K. — A provocative new theory about the origin of «mad cow disease» and its human counterpart stirred debate at the annual International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology here yesterday.

In January, Harvard University evolutionary psychologist Max Krasnow and grad student Samuel Mehr published the first formal theory on the origins of lullabies in Evolution and Human Behavior.

Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors — the so - called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins.

Each stack is dedicated to a topic somehow related to his work in evolutionary theory: the origins of behavioral disorders, the epidemiology of tuberculosis, the way modern humans overrode Neanderthals.

As Freud would plumb the unconscious in his effort to «understand the origin and nature of human behavior,» so Einstein would set off on his lifelong quest for a unified field theory that would encompass all physical phenomena.

The bill's text, if passed into state law, would protect teachers from discipline if they «help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught,» namely, «biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.»

The theory may also be able to explain the origin of the cognitive abilities that make humans special.

A decade ago the leading theory of modern human origins held our species arose around 200,000 years ago in eastern Africa and (apart from short forays into Israel around 90,000 to 120,000 years ago) did not begin spreading out of Africa in a major way until around 60,000 years ago.

Dr. Davis, the author of Wheat Belly, was extremely captivating with his dissertation on the origin of wheat and theory that humans should not eat any grains.

This lesson looks at the origins of human life; Genesis account and the theory of evolution.

As we approach a point where some of the fundamental scientific questions are being resolved (e.g. the human genome, a unified theory and understanding of the origin of the universe), there has been an explosion of interest in the lives of great mathematicians and scientists.

At the Natural History Museum it has been instrumental in the development of contemporary theories of human evolution, including research that has traced the origin of anatomically modern humans to sub-Saharan Africa.

Thomas Turner takes inspiration from Chinese folklore, Greek mythology, Buddhism, Astronomy and Quantum theories to illustrate poetic explorations of universal human origin and connectedness.