Sentences with phrase «time near humans»

As expected, wolves spent less time near humans, and most worked equally hard to solve their puzzle box regardless of whether a human was present.

Not exact matches

We are moving towards a setting where Amy is near instant, but even in her current incarnation she tends to beat most human assistants in response time and working days (given her 24/7 machine setting).

«I have a tough time in any near - term or any medium - term sort of scenario seeing that robots are just going to do their own thing and decide to shoot each other without any interaction [or] human control.»

Around the same time, in March 2016, Becker installed static thermal cameras capable of identifying human forms and vehicles near a fence line often used by poachers in the national park of Lake Nakuru, around 300 kilometres north of Heath's conservancy.

As the time for birth drew near, the fetus moved from the animal - like embryo to the human child.

Unless in consequence of a stupid insensibility this fact should some time deteriorate into a meaningless human conventionality, each subsequent generation will exhibit the same proportion of offense as the first; for there is no immediacy by the aid of which anyone could come any nearer to it.

If your child has never seen a baby, it's time to introduce them to a tiny human they can expect to invade their home in the near future.

«This specimen is really important and exciting, as — assuming the dating is correct — it shows for the first time that modern humans existed in the Near East at the same time as Neanderthals,» says Katerina Harvati, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

The alleles associated with light pigmentation swept to near fixation outside of Africa due to positive selection, and we show that these lineages coalesce ~ 60 ka, corresponding with the time of migration of modern humans out of Africa.

Team member and animal behavior specialist Miho Nagasawa, of Azabu University in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, says it is unclear whether the greater stress resulted from experiencing the earthquake, a longer time before rescue, or the sudden and complete disappearance of humans.

Debate over the timing of human origins will continue despite the new evidence from the child, whose remains came from previous shoreline excavations near the town of Ballito Bay, says Uppsala University evolutionary geneticist and study coauthor Mattias Jakobsson.

So Thomas Cucchi, an archaeologist at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, decided to turn to the creatures living alongside humans at the time, specifically house mice (Mus domesticus), which live almost exclusively in or near houses and planted fields.

«Most of the fires at this time of the year in this area are human - caused,» Finney said, «and because they are caused by humans, they are, well, quite near humans.»

The understandability of the natural world is all the more impressive when one considers the fact that fundamental human assumptions about time and space — the idea that there are 60 minutes in an hour, and that a circle can be broken down into 360 degrees — come from a time with «no articulated sense of nature... no reference or word for it,» according to Francesca Rochberg, professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Since prehistoric times people have lived by the seas and rivers for the access to cheap and quick transportation and access to food sources and trade; without human populations near natural bodies of water, there would be no concern for floods.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

Recent studies of human fossils suggest the brain shrank more quickly than the body in near - modern times.

«Thanks to all of you, near and far, old and young, who joined the Cassini mission in marking the first time inhabitants of Earth had advance notice that our picture was being taken from interplanetary distances,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «While Earth is too small in the images Cassini obtained to distinguish any individual human beings, the mission has put together this collage so that we can celebrate all your waving hands, uplifted paws, smiling faces and artwork.»

Upset about how the rivalry might detract from the scientific achievement, Patrinos invited Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute, and J. Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics of Rockville, Maryland, to a «secret meeting» at his house near Washington, D.C. «I've known both of these guys for a long time — as scientists and as friends,» Patrinos says.

The first time was at least 80,000 years ago in the Near East, as evidenced by findings of both Neandertal and modern human bones in caves in Israel.

On a topic such as evolution, there is near consensus among all disciplinary groups that humans and other living things have evolved over time.

President Trump nears the 100 - day mark of his administration as the least popular chief executive in modern times, a president whose voters remain largely Kolbe Corp Science of Human Actions, Reactions & Interactions.

Unfortunately, there's little time for love, as the Mogadorians, with their fearless leader Commander (Kevin Durand), draw near, forcing Four, human pal Sam (Callan McAuliffe), and huntress Number Six (Teresa Palmer) to fight back, working to gain full control over their Legacies.

With a CPU player, the game will slow down if the player is nearing a ghost, however, if the player is playing with another human, that Pac - Man can be captured and saved within a certain amount of time.

Hugh Jackman plays a former prizefighter and full - time screw - up trying to make ends meet in a near future where human martial arts have been replaced with robot combat.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

By the time Caesar and his band of fellow travelers locate the Colonel's armed compound near the California - Nevada border, they've picked up two more sidekicks: a former zoo chimp (Steve Zahn, making his motion - capture debut) whose years spent hiding out in isolation have left him a little touched in the head and a human child (Amiah Miller), a mute orphan who's been adopted by the compassionate orangutan Maurice (Karin Konoval).

Yuichiro's dream is near - impossible, given that vampires are seven times stronger than humans, and the only way to kill them is by mastering Cursed Gear, advanced demon - possessed weaponry.

As the time grows nearer to welcoming my own little human bundle of joy, every day I check things off my «to do» list: Nursery set up, check!

The dog may not show it yet but they often enjoy being near humans for the first time in their life.

Note: it's very important to allow time for the insecticide to dry before allowing pets / humans to go anywhere near the area.

He wants to be near his human at all times.

He enjoys being near his human family, thus one should give a German Shorthaired Pointer plenty of attention and avoid leaving him alone for long periods of time.

They love to be near their special people at all times, but sometimes you have to leave to do human things like going to the store, or work, the doctor or anything else.

Hospice care, or «pawspice,» the term coined by Alice Villalobos, DVM, former President of the American Association of Human Animal Bond Veterinarians (AAHABV) and founding member of the Veterinary Cancer Society, is supportive assistance in evaluating and managing our pets» quality of life as they near the end of their days, a time period that can span from days to months.

At times, we release young California sea lions that have become accustomed to human contact and northern fur seals that are pelagic, out near the Farallon Islands via boat.

Set in a near - future not so different from our own time, M.A.T. pits teams against one another in a bitter battle for the survival of the human race.

Computer generated speech is only getting better with time, and given that video games are already a near 100 % computer generated medium, replacing the human voices with artificial ones doesn't seem like a hugely futuristic thing.

Exhibited for the first time in France, Pierre Huyghe's Untitled (Human Mask)(2014) shows a monkey dressed as a little girl wearing a Japanese Noh theatre mask, wandering around a deserted restaurant near Fukushima.

Performances and images of human cruelty toward animals may be found as far away in time and space as ancient Mesopotamia and as near as the grocery store or restaurant near you.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Guided by its leader's radical approach to space, time and technology, the Company has forged a distinctive style, reflecting Cunningham's technique and illuminating the near limitless possibility for human movement.

We are changing the climate, but remember we are also going through mineral resources very fast, population is still exploding near exponentially, we are altering the entire landscape and biosphere of the planet often in destructive ways, and loading up future generations with huge levels of financial debt, all at the same time, and within a very short time period of human history.

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

With Shark Week nearing an end (I still think what's needed is Human Week), this seemed an appropriate time to post our Q&A.

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The (lack of) skill of the current GCM's always wondered me and I have been suspicious about the use of human aerosols as a convenient «tuning knob» to fit the past, and even so not so good, especially not in current times where the reduction of aerosols in the Western world is near fully compensated by the increase in SE Asia.

In addition to inherent scientific uncertainties slowing response, a variety of human and institutional barriers stand in the way of adaptation measures: long lead - times for rule changes; ideological resistance; a preoccupation with the near - term; false perceptions that climate impacts either won't be too painful or are off in the distant future; business - as - usual assumptions; and lack of national leadership.

The New York Times reported on what it called the report's «near certainty» that humans are responsible for the rising temperatures of recent decades and its warning that sea levels could rise by more than three feet by the end of the century.

The time line involving the last 2 to 3 Million years of the appearance of «Human forms» and the return into a Period of recurring glaciation are near simultaneous (in terms of the «times» involved).