Sentences with phrase «when homo»

The penultimate catastrophe is when Homo Sapiens is cooked.

That's when the Homo lineage split off from australopithecines, brains got bigger, and toolmaking started in earnest.

«Animal Farm: A Fairy Tale» tells of the woes when homo sapiens themselves took control of government in the manner of communism under Stalin.

The major step-wise expansion in brain size around 1.9 Ma when Homo appeared was coeval with the occurrence of ephemeral deep lakes.

They might turn out to be 2 or 3 million years old, dating back to the time when Homo first came on the scene.

Some have argued that a predecessor to the parasite must have infected the last common ancestor to humans and chimps, 6 million or 7 million years ago, and then co-evolved when Homo sapiens stepped onto the world stage in a process called cospeciation.

Most large mammals, termed megafauna (animals weighing more than 100 pounds), became extinct in the past 50,000 years, during the late Pleistocene epoch, when Homo sapiens colonized the earth.

As a result, it provides the best benchmark so far for gauging when Homo sapiens originated in Africa, evolutionary geneticist Carina Schlebusch of Uppsala University in Sweden and her colleagues conclude.

And that transition was there when Homo Sapiens came down from the trees and created communal living areas.

When Homo faber came into being the first rudimentary tool was born as an appendage of the human body.

Not exact matches

Homo economicus perhaps doesn't behave as wisely as he should when it comes to spending — and worse, he's far from financially literate.

In either case, the connection is violated when the essence of humanness is posited to be homo faber, man as self - sufficient creator.

Yet the early Church itself, when it departed from biblical idiom at the Council of Nicea and used for theological purposes a non-biblical word, homo - ousion, as the guarantor of true biblical meaning, gave Christians in later days a charter for translation — provided always that it is the gospel, its setting and its significance, that we are translating, and not some bright and novel ideas of our own.

The values of community life and creative work are destroyed for the sake of the greater wealth that can be produced when people behave in the manner of Homo economicus.

When evolution produces an intelligent social being on the order of homo sapiens, it thereby brings into existence a creature equipped with the intellectual resources to enter into the realm of communication process in a way that enables it to transcend the historical concreteness of its particular spatiotemporal context of existence.

assume that there is only one — to the point, as I have discovered of late, that some people are immensely relieved when they learn that there are other explanations of the cross, and that Anselm's classic expression of the atonement in Cur Deus Homo?

When he says that in his heart homo sapiens becomes humanus.

At the outset we noted that the nineteen and a half centuries we have covered are only a small fragment of the course of Homo sapiens and even of what we call civilization; when viewed against cosmic time they constitute only a fraction of a second and embrace a small planet which is a mere speck in the vast universe.

and thats because i love ozil no homo i always support him even when many arsenal fans criticize him because i always believe hes a good german

When Mario Cuomo beat Koch in the Dem gubernatorial primary, Mario's son, our next governor, reportedly organized sound trucks to drive around the outer boroughs saying loudly «Vote for Cuomo, not the homo.»

He was running his dad's 1977 campaign for mayor when signs were plastered all over the subway, urging voters to «Vote for Cuomo, not the homo.»

But I am looking forward to the day when he adopts «Vale homo qui est faba.»

His life took a turn toward the nonaverage in the early 1980s, when a colleague innocently asked him to examine a fossil of a diseased marine lizard to identify what ailed it — something he regularly does for his living Homo sapiens patients — and Rothschild got hooked.

When Louis Leakey sat down to recount the discovery of what may be the earliest sign of cancer in the genus Homo, the first thing he remembered was the mud.

The other derives from reports of intergroup fighting among hunter - gatherers; our ancestors lived as hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo genus until the Neolithic era, when humans began settling down to cultivate crops and breed animals, and some scattered groups still live that way.

When the team compared these scans with those of the skulls of Homo sapiens from temperate regions, they found Neanderthals» sinuses were only bigger because they had bigger faces; the two species» sinuses had the same relative size relationship (Journal of Human Evolution, DOI: 10.1016 / j.jhevol.2010.10.003).

That's when genomic models estimate the last common ancestor of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans existed.

When paleoanthropologist Lee Berger unearthed a fossil near Johannesburg, South Africa, it seemed to be a jumble of parts: a braincase similar in size to that of an Australopithecus africanus, a Homo erectus pelvis, and the arms of a Miocene ape.

A number of skeletons previously found there are from between 2 and 3 million years ago, from a time when we think the Homo genus was splitting from Australopithecus.

Famed paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey thought tools made the man, and so when he uncovered hominid bones near stone tools in Tanzania in the 1960s, he labeled the putative toolmaker Homo habilis, the earliest member of the human genus.

For more than a century, anthropologists have wondered why we possess a chin when apes and our Homo ancestors are chinless.

When the Paleolithic period gave way to the Neolithic, about 10,000 years ago, the only hominin on Earth was Homo sapiens.

That's when we really splinter the species; that's why Homo evolutus could easily produce a Cambrian explosion of subspecies.»

For example, Aiello and her colleagues proposed that when our brains began to expand dramatically about 1.6 million years ago, our direct ancestor Homo erectus evolved a smaller gut that sucked up less energy (Science, 15 June 2007, p. 1560).

This is the famous site of Dmanisi, Georgia, which offers an unparalleled glimpse into a harsh early chapter in human evolution, when primitive members of our genus Homo struggled to survive in a new land far north of their ancestors» African home, braving winters without clothes or fire and competing with fierce carnivores for meat.

Checking the types of animal bones at other early Homo fossil sites out of Africa could show whether the mix of prey species changed when hominins colonized a new site, supporting a «naïve prey» effect.

That number increased to about 1 in 5 when early Homo species appeared a million years ago and increased again to nearly 4 in 10 by the age of the Neanderthals, some 130,000 to 30,000 years ago.

When it comes to slowing down global warming, the world's oceans — 70 percent of the planet's surface — may be Homo sapiens» best hope for a stable future.

Several genetic studies show a bottleneck back then, a time when the total number of Homo sapiens was tiny.

Yet during one cold period, when the Neanderthals retreated, populations of Homo sapiens began to infiltrate the cold regions.

Are species that specialise on a single host, or which live in just one habitat, doomed when climate changes or Homo sapiens arrives?

The unique adaptability of Homo sapiens is what allowed us to survive when so many other species died out, paleoanthropologist Rick Potts contends.

Goodman's observation of the species Homo academicus in its native habitat around Cambridge is one of the pleasures of this book, although her grasp of nuance is less sure when her characters venture into the alien wilds of Bethesda and D.C.

Besides two Homo erectus skeletons, it contains stalagmites that have helped solve one of the greatest mysteries in climate science: why the ice ages came and went when they did.

Scientists suggest that the discovery is relevant as it suggests that humans were making tools much earlier than when the genus Homo came into existence.

Later, in the 60s, when they found hominin fossils that looked more like later humans than the Australopithecines, in association with those Oldowan tools, they assigned them to a new species: Homo habilis or handy man.

Goodman calls the Homo habilis fossil OH 7 discovered in 1961 by the nickname «Twiggy», when Twiggy is the nickname of OH 24, discovered in 1968.

He misunderstands the mitochrondial Eve concept (p. 14), apparently believing that the age of mitochondrial Eve and the appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens must coincide, when there is not necessarily any relationship between the two.

He believes that scientists have expanded our genus too much in recent years, «adding bit by bit at the end, when there really is no clear definition now of what Homo is.»

When the discovery of Homo naledi was announced two years ago, the news prompted both amazement and incredulity.