Sentences with phrase «think about our ancestors»

Think about your ancestors.

Frankly, the whole argument sounds somewhat silly to modern ears, but was quite consistent with Hebraic ways of thinking about their ancestors and helps solve the dilemma about how Jesus could be our High Priest even though He was not of the Tribe of Levi.

It may all sound a bit complicated, but try to think about our ancestors, what they ate, and how often.

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I knew she would remember NOTHING about me if I died, so I spent what I thought would be my last hours trying to write EVERYthing I had hoped to tell her over the next 70 years - about me, about herself, about her ancestors, about life.

«Our fundamental ways of thinking about things are discoveries of exceedingly remote ancestors, which have been able to preserve themselves throughout the experience of all subsequent time» (P 79).

ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.

That is the image our American ancestors saw when they thought about planting the germs of beauty and nobility in their new culture.

Whitehead evidently read Aristotle (or perhaps W. D. Ross's book about Aristotle) with the specter of modern materialistic mechanism haunting his mind, and thought he recognized in Aristotle's «substance» its remote but unmistakable ancestor.

Isn't it also true that we are here today, that we are who we are, in the condition in which we find ourselves, because we also had biological and spiritual ancestors who sat on their hands, who cared only for themselves, who thought little about the impact of their actions on future generations?

They know the calendar their ancestors left them is about to absolve a key phase, which means the end of an era and the heralding of a new one, but they don't think we're all gonna die.

If this seems incredible, ponder for a moment what our ancestors would have thought about landing a man on the moon or transplanting a human heart from one person to another.

Apparently he thought of it as coming in with «Adam's fall,» the transgression of an ancient ancestor fastening sin upon his descendants; but he also thought of it as related to the activities of demons, about the existence of which neither Paul nor his contemporaries had any doubt.

But it might come more natural to someone who knows that he had a grandfather, whose grandfather told him G - d gave the Torah to his ancestors, whose ancestors were told G - d gave the Torah to their ancestors, and so on, each year, generation after generation, from then to now, that person would think about the time that G - d did give the Torah.

Winemaker Jean - Marc Dulong added, «It is exciting for me to think about my Bordelaise ancestors crafting their clarets and blancs in the Downton Abbey era.

No, most of us have never thought about what our not - so - distant ancestors did before diapers existed.

When we think of all the horror stories we've been told about what will happen if we don't follow a laundry list of rules about how to raise our children in today's modern, Western society, you can bet that pretty much none of it applied to our early ancestors (or even other cultures today).

These shared features, the authors say, suggest that it's time to rethink what we thought we knew about dinosaurs» earliest ancestors.

Thought to have disappeared from the ancestors of modern pigs about 20 million years ago, the gene helps cells dissipate more heat and burn fat.

We've been cooking forever, but if you think about it, while technology and software have wormed their way into almost every aspect of our lives, cooking is still very, very primitive — we still cook over an open flame, like our ancestors millennia ago.

Palaeoanthropologists often use chimps as «proxies» for our common ancestor, so Ardi's debut may mean that much of what we think we know about human evolution will have to be rethought.

The team's findings and other research show that our ancestors were thinking about effectiveness and efficiency, Wood said, which may have influenced which animals they targeted.

«When people think about our ancient ancestors, they either tend to have a view that our ancestors must have been primitive, less culturally diverse, or they take the view that our ancestors were probably extraordinarily culturally impressive,» says Peter Hiscock, an archaeologist at the University of Sydney who was not involved in the study.

These examples are crucial, Fry says, because our ancestors are thought to have lived as nomadic hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo lineage just over 2 million years ago in Africa until the appearance of agriculture and permanent settlements about 12,000 years ago.

New research shows Volvox split from unicellular ancestors about 150 million years earlier than was previously thought.

And the answer is that the common ancestor of primates probably appeared about 20 million years earlier than people thought.

An international team of scientists, including one from the University of Colorado Denver and another from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, announced the discovery Thursday of a new species of hominin, a small creature with a tiny brain that opens the door to a new way of thinking about our ancient ancestors.

And it's too early for H. heidelbergensis, which arose in Africa and Europe about 650,000 years ago and is thought by many researchers to be the common ancestor of humans and Neandertals.

«If you think about our evolutionary ancestors, you could imagine some kind of singing ritual to bond groups together very quickly so they could then take part in some sort of collective activity like hunting,» Pearce says.

Researchers think they evolved from a common ancestor that lived about 140 million years ago.

Look at its pelvis or shoulders, says Berger, and you would think it was an apelike Australopithecus, which appeared in Africa about 4 million years ago and is thought to be an ancestor of Homo.

Both hominids were about 1.2 metres tall and lightly built, with ape - sized brains and bodies resembling A. africanus, which is thought to have been a direct ancestor of humans.

They found that the last common Equus ancestor lived between 4 and 4.5 million years ago — before the last ice age — making the lineage about twice as old as we thought.

Follow both the hominid and panin branch back about 5.4 million years, and you'll find a point where scientists think the two converged from a single, common ancestor.

If you think about it, this goes back to our ancestors, the hunter - gatherers who often had to survive for periods without a successful hunt.

If you think about it, our ancestors were not very likely to combine multiple food groups in one meal.

Those people could get away from danger, they were expecting danger more often, and they probably ended up surviving and passing their genes on to their ancestors more readily than those who were way too laid back and didn't think about danger and got themselves into risky situations.

So stay positive... think about the wonderful things in your life that you're grateful for... eat like our early ancestors did... move around like our ancestors did... slow down... go barefoot, connect to the earth... get sensible sun exposure... sleep like a rock... keep stress in check... and breathe.

Think about how our ancestors ate kale.

If you think about it, do you really think that our ancestors threw out the yolk and only ate the egg whites?

The diet, which first emerged in the 1970s but wasn't popularised until the early 2000s, involves eating modern foods that attempt to mimic the food groups we think our hunter - gatherer ancestors ate during the Paleolithic era, from about 2.6 million years ago to the beginning of the Agricultural Revolution, about 10,000 years ago.

I thought about what my Grandmother, Great Grandmother and ancestors used to eat..

Sure, if you really like the philosophy behind a certain diet, be it that you love to think about eating like your ancestors or to pass on that ribeye steak because you have a soft spot for cows, go for it.

Think about it, our ancestors didn't have food available like we have now.

Sleep like a rock... eat like our early ancestors did... move like our ancestors did... avoid danger like our ancestors did (think lions, trans fats, sugars, fluoride, excessive wifi, emfs, vaccines, mercury, etc)... go barefoot, connect to the earth... get sensible sun exposure... get cold (environmental conditioning)... mind your magnesium... stay positive, think about the wonderful things in your life that you're grateful for.

They get specific about what ethnic group you come from, as opposed to just what country... I think it was his way of saying, «As an African - American, I know you're disconnected from your ancestors and your culture and your traditions,» Here's my way of welcoming you back.»»

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(Actually, I think it's more correct to say that the progenitor is a reconstructed ancestor, Proto Indo - European, which is none of the child languages and no existing language — indeed, a pre-historic language, i.e. one of which there is no written record, from about 8,000 BC.)

Surely, even if we don't directly owe the Aboriginal people a personal apology for what our ancestors did, just think for a moment about what you may have done.