Sentences with phrase «used by our ancestors»

«Nevertheless, the same sexual strategies used by our ancestors operate today with unbridled force,» as the psychologist David Buss put it in The Evolution of Desire (2003).

The quintessential Stone Age hunting spear — with a stone tip — was used by an ancestor of humans and Neanderthals

The CP system would rip him off the couch and get him flying in the direction of the exit and then when that immediate energy source was burned, some five or six seconds later, he'd have to rely on one or other of his other two energy systems; this is exactly the same process used by our ancestors when confronted head - on by a sabre - toothed tiger.

The vast majority of supplements contain lactic acid bacteria similar to that used by our ancestors.

Pressure cookers have not been used by our ancestors until their invention in the early 18th century by scientists to preserve food by canning for the French army!

It's time to switch from all those chemicals to these natural ingredients that were often used by our ancestors.

Ortiz was inspired to look at the past and revive techniques that were used by his ancestors.

Not exact matches

IF Bishop Eddie Long's ancestors had not been dragged out of Africa brought to the US as slaves, had their families pulled apart by white men treating them as animals and using them for breeding and labor to get rich, none of this would have ever happened.

We find direction in the present as much by studying our past errors as by finding inspiration in those occasions when our ancestors in the faith used their freedom wisely.

Any way Ali some times I think that our Arab ancestors were dead wrong for their treason and revolt against the Ottoman empire... after all since that era we Arabs and Muslims were used and abused by the stronger nations that came after it till date...!!

Seeds are obtained from the highest quality cobs harvested the previous year, unaltered and descended directly from those used generations ago by our ancestors.

Using genetic changes as a molecular clock, they conclude that Papuan and Aboriginal Australian ancestors diverged perhaps 37,000 years ago, long before Australia and New Guinea were separated by rising seas.

King hypothesizes that proteins that the single - celled ancestors of animals used to interact with the extracellular environment — to capture bacterial prey by binding to their cell surface and to detect chemical signals — were later repurposed to enable cells to stick to and talk to each other.

YOU may think humanity's first words are lost in the noise of ancient history, but an unlikely experiment using plastic tubes and puffs of air is helping to recreate the first sounds uttered by our distant ancestors.

Their evidence seemed overwhelming, since they identified at least 18 unique characters shared by ornithischians and theropods, and used these as evidence that the two groups had shared a common ancestor.

He cites a recent study, for instance, conducted by an international team of molecular biologists that used the DNA of living placental mammals to estimate that their ancestors originated more than 100 million years ago.

Our ancestors going back thousands of years show signs of atherosclerosis, as suggested by modern research using CT to detect evidence of calcium deposits associated with atherosclerotic plaques in the arteries of mummies as old as 5,000 years.

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.

A look at sperm plugs used by chimps may help establish how the last common ancestor of chimps and humans mated

Just like their red algal ancestors, cryptophytes utilise not only the green pigment chlorophyll for harvesting light, but have also the capability to use green light being missed by chlorophyll.

So far, the exact mechanism by which splicing occurs was unknown, but a new SISSA / CNR - IOM study carried out with the collaboration of the Swiss EPFL has reconstructed in detail — by using computer simulations — the cleavage process for group II introns, considered the ancestors of the spliceosome, thereby shedding light on the much more complex splicing mechanism in humans.

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.

Stone tools used by our oldest hominin ancestors 2.5 million years ago are believed to have sparked the evolution of human communication (Illustration by Jay Matternes)

A team of researchers has validated data and found a new model for paleontologists to use to track the diet of our ancient ancestors and animals by analyzing the wear on their teeth.

In research published online in a recent issue of PeerJ, an open access journal, Professor Robert Reisz, Distinguished Professor of Paleontology at UTM, explains that the presence of such an extensive field of teeth provides clues to how the intriguing feeding mechanism seen in modern amphibians was also likely used by their ancient ancestors.

By studying the hand bones of the Australopithecus africanus, researchers found that these ape - like human ancestors had human - like hands capable of using stone tools.

In addition, we have also used here proteins encoded by alternative sequences at the GNCA node (common ancestor of Gram - negative bacteria).

By comparing them with the genomes of known Alphaproteobacteria and mitochondria using phylogenomic methods, we will be able to gain new insights on the nature of the mitochondrial ancestor.

After all, we're probably all at least vaguely familiar with the strange and dangerous cosmetic habits of our ancestors: arsenic in face powder, copper or lead to color the eyes, not to mention lead - based face masks used by the Greeks to «improve» skin condition.

The by - product of submerging aromatic plant matter in a fixed oil for days or weeks, the remaining oil is reminiscent of what our ancestors would have used as perfume, anointing oils, or healing ointments.

In addition to scavenging large carcasses, our ancestors created a good way to get them, namely, by hunting in organized packs using weapons such as stone spear tips.

Paleo diet helps you lose weight by increasing the intake of food our ancestors used to eat when they lived in communities where they had to hunt for food every day.

As far as brushing goes, by all means, do it when you feel like it... we recommend using a Bass brush (or) a chewing stick just like our early ancestors did which shows parallel, or even greater efficacy, as compared to standard brushing (see study).

Because of its abundance as a mineral all over the world and it's beautiful bright quality, kaolin is thought to have been used as one of the first clays used to make pottery by our ancestors.

Orangutans in Borneo can survive potential starvation by using their body fat and muscles as energy until a bounty of food is available, researchers find, adding that the results may someday shed light on the eating habits of our earliest ancestors.

Used for centuries by our ancestors as primary fuel sources, it has recently become subject of fierce rejection.

Using the limited diets of our ancestors — limited by the availability of foods — as a guideline for the perfect diet today?

Using traditional techniques inherited from her ancestors, she crafts the stunning design by hand from sterling

An international team of researchers has used a machine learning algorithm to assess whether hominin bones found in caves were placed there as part of a burial service by early human ancestors.

is a somewhat - manic dramedy about a pig farmer whose land is seemingly «saved» by a loud, ignorant American who claims his ancestors used to own it.

The actress will re-team with her «Macbeth» co-star Michael Fassbender and director Justin Kurzel for the video game adaptation — one of many that are on the way — that follows Desmond Miles, a bartender kidnapped by a corporation and forced to use a machine called the Animus, which allows him to relive the memories of his ancestor Altair, who was an Assassin in the Middle East during the Crusades.

Whilst ultimately a holocaust novel, Safran Foer manages to inject plenty of humour with his characters (the «blind» grandfather driver with his seeing - eye bitch, Sammy Davis Junior, Junior; an ancestor with a blade in his head; a young Ukrainian with an ambition to be an accountant, who is saving to go to America by eschewing nightclubs in favour of the beach), with his fantastic eighteenth century Polish - Ukrainian Jewish shtetl full of whacky inhabitants and customs, and with the often hilarious results of generous if totally misguided use of a Thesaurus.

The most popular working dog used by the early drovers was a breed brought out from England known as the Smithfield, a breed that eventually became one of the ancestors of the Australian Cattle Dog.

It's believed some of its ancestors were Mastiff - like dogs used by the Romans as cattle dogs.

From its ancestor's beginnings as a cattle driving dog and puller of carts the breed has been developed for use in a wide range of activities by modern man including service dogs, therapy animals, top - ranked obedience, tracking, and other performance dogs including use as search and rescue dogs across the country (even the World Trade Center recovery site).

Since the venom is harmless to humans (and a majority of other animals), many researchers believe it was once a trait used by the lizard's ancestors in the past when hunting.

Like the Samoyed and Alaskan Malamute, the ancestors of the Husky were used for hunting and sledding by indigenous people throughout the northern hemisphere.

By following the road to Antigua Guatemala you will find that the city is surrounded by volcanoes which are considered sacred by the Maya as the living creatures believe that can be used to communicate with spirits and ancestorBy following the road to Antigua Guatemala you will find that the city is surrounded by volcanoes which are considered sacred by the Maya as the living creatures believe that can be used to communicate with spirits and ancestorby volcanoes which are considered sacred by the Maya as the living creatures believe that can be used to communicate with spirits and ancestorby the Maya as the living creatures believe that can be used to communicate with spirits and ancestors.

While modern credit card applicants can still choose to honor their ancestors by using the mail - in form — or practice the art of small talk with their local teller — today's credit seeker has an even better option: the online application.

Assassin's Creed borrows heavily from that genre, featuring a secret society of warriors who travel back in time (not by time travel because «that's cheesy,» she offers) using genetic memory («this idea that the memories of people's ancestors are encoded in their genes»).