Sentences with phrase «when early humans»

Our metabolisms evolved at a point in time when early humans (or our mammalian predecessors) were eating entirely foraged foods and wild meat from their local environment.

University of Virginia linguistic anthropologist Mark A. Sicoli and colleagues are applying the latest technology to an ancient mystery: how and when early humans inhabited the New World.

The researchers hypothesize that the variant form of receptor could be an evolutionary relic from the time when early humans needed to spot predators or food hidden in branches and leaves.

Archaeologists have long debated when early humans began hurling stone - tipped spears and darts at large prey.

«Think about the period when early humans became bipedal,» says de l'Etoile.

Chimps tend not to display this behavior, Haidt says, but «when early humans began to share intentions, their ability to hunt, gather, raise children, and raid their neighbors increased exponentially.

FOXP2 could have aided this transition when early humans first started to talk, she says.

Taken together, this evidence suggests the development of fire technology occurred at some point between 800,000 and 1.2 million years ago, revealing a new timeline for when the earliest humans started to cook food.

At a time when our earliest human ancestors had recently mastered walking upright, the heart of our Milky Way galaxy underwent a titanic eruption, driving gases and other material outward at 2 million miles per hour.

As this adjacent chart reveals, modern warming increases over the last 60 years don't even match the warming increases of the prior 60 - year period, when earlier human emissions were just a fraction of contemporary amounts.

Not exact matches

For example, when political newcomer David Brat successfully challenged House Republican majority leader Eric Cantor to represent Virginia in the U.S. Congress, it came as a surprise only to those reporters who didn't bother to go to Virginia and talk to «actual humans,» as Rutenberg observes (echoing an earlier analysis by Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi).

Toyota's earlier victories owe much to human - resources practices adopted when it began manufacturing in North America in the 1980s.

Earlier this year, Chinese scientists caused a controversy when they announced they'd used the gene editing technique to tweak the genomes of human embryos.

In the early days of human existence, for example, it served a survival purpose, helping us fight back when we were attacked by predators or other humans.

Since the early days of the Internet when Bill Gates wrote in his book The Road Ahead that the «information superhighway» would become the «ultimate go - between» and that «only the humans involved in a transaction will be the actual buyer and seller» there's been a constant theme that middlemen are finished.

In early December 2013, Bezos made headlines when he revealed a new, experimental initiative by Amazon, called «Amazon Prime Air,» using drones — remote - controlled machines that can perform an array of human tasks — to provide delivery services to customers.

Within that century and a half there's some good news about the global human condition that ought to be kept in mind when remembering the bad news of the twentieth century and the early twenty - first.

I believe that throughout most of our early human history, when our species population was still relatively small, you simply didn't see rampant homosexuality.

Early cosmologies also pictured the cosmos relative to the human observer, as we continue to do when we speak of sending a rocket «upward» into space or refer to Australians as living «down under.»

We humans are aware of change in personal development, as described in Shakespeare's «seven ages of man»; so we are used to planning for the next day, the next year or even for a lifetime as when, in early adulthood, we choose a career or a spouse.

(Gen. 6:3) The tyrannies and destructions of our day are really the same in kind as those that made human life either a shambles or a prison house, or both, in the days of Nero when this earliest Gospel was written.

The human fetus in the earliest stages of its development, when it is virtually incapable of morphological definition, is a case in point.

That was in the early»70s, when with long hair, bobbles, bangles and beads and a gleam of communitarian utopianism in my eyes, I finally found my way into the fourth century treatise by Nemesius, peri phuseos anthropon («On the Nature of the Human»), where it at length dawned on me that ancient wisdom could be the basis for a deeper critique of modern narcissistic individualism than I had yet seen.

When my new acquaintance discovered that I was a theologian and that I was particularly interested in studying how Romanesque art and architecture illustrated the Augustinian - Anselmian character of the faith of the early Middle Ages — with its profound pessimism about the human condition apart from grace — the conversation sent him into a mood of self - reproach and even to consideration of abandoning his dissertation topic.

Either American democracy is living on social capital inherited from an earlier time when Americans shared a common perspective on life's questions, in which case we face a slow descent into the fragmented and violent world Hauerwas sees; or else the enthusiastic, individualistic and yet genuinely loving piety of Emerson, Whitman and Ellison has a better grasp of our human nature, and it really is possible to be both democratic and virtuous.

When death comes, appraisal must also be made in the same way, for the total pattern of a given human life, made up as it is of a particular «routing» of occasions bound together in the fashion we indicated earlier, has also contributed, or failed to contribute, in its very totality, to the creative advance in good.

The Prime Minister raised human rights when she visited China earlier this year.

I've never dreamed in my worst nightmares, nor could have I imagined in my early years, that I will see the day when human beings are capable of being so corrupt and brazenly unashamed, and so dead in their consciences that they thought it perfectly normal to call evil good, and good evil, as we are seeing today.

The oneness of being that the early Christian writers tried to communicate when they described Christ, fully human.

This has always happened throughout church history, when new statements are brought forth to complete earlier insights in order to do justice to the inexhaustible riches of divine revelation even in the earthen vessel of human language.»

Micah, the Ephraimite, had an image of Yahweh; (Judges 17:3 - 4) Gideon made one out of captured gold; (Judges 8:24 - 27) the teraphim were household gods, human enough in appearance to supply David with a substitute when he fled from his foes; (I Samuel 19:12 - 16 [cf. Genesis 31:17 - 35]-RRB- and, indeed, so customary were «graven images» that while early protests were made, as in the law of Exodus, «Thou shalt make thee no molten gods,» (Exodus 34:17.)

Even in the twentieth century, when many in «Christendom» talked of the «post-Christian era,» suffered from a loss of nerve, and were under a dark cloud of pessimism, a Pope dedicated the entire human race to Christ and some Roman Catholics and Protestants still took seriously the early Christian dream of making disciples of all nations, baptizing them, and teaching them to observe all that Christ commanded.

Look, when we think about ending an early human life, this is something that is really bad for the embryo or early fetus that dies, it's losing out tremendously — I agree with that as I already said.

No longer can we live as if we were in an earlier age, when ethical teaching was either ignorant of what we now know to be the case or unwilling to give due recognition to human existence as we have come to understand it.

My early polemical attitude toward the Catholic Church had been modified when, in the days of the New Deal social revolution, the Catholic Church revealed that it was much more aware of the social substance of human nature, and of the discriminate standards of justice needed in the collective relations of a technical culture, than was our individualistic Protestantism.

The human race is in the midst of a great transition involving such an enormity and rapidity of change as to constitute a transformation as far - reaching in its implications as that earlier great evolutionary leap when biological man became cultural man.

In my opinion, taking either of those guys with to Puerto Rico would be done as a human interest story, akin to when the Marlins gave Adam Greenberg an at - bat in 2012 after his career was derailed when he was beaned in the head in his first career plate appearance years earlier.

Ken Green, Calcavecchia's great friend since his early days on Tour, essentially folded into human origami and disappeared when marital headaches took over his life.

When they cry and you answer their cry, this is an early form of communication between your baby and other humans.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

He likes to cuddle with us, and we're not opposed to when he asks to join us in the early morning hours, because what he wants is human touch.

Interestingly, but not really surprising, when a human infants inherent need for contact and proximity (reassurance through touch, parent directed vocalizations, emotional support) are met by parents early in their lives rather than becoming «dependent» as is always suggested in the popular press the reverse is actually true: that is, early dependence leads to early independence and self sufficiency and, perhaps even, enhanced self — confidence.

In the very earliest time When both people and animals lived on earth A person could become an animal if he wanted to and an animal could become a human being.

i can come from this as an RN as well, and introducing formula can undermine an early breastfeeding relationship, especially when the mother is in the hospital constantly being pushed to use it by every single nurse who has not taken a class at all on the biological working of the human breast.

As noted earlier, average fat content of human milk is highly variable, but has not proven to be significant when calculating baby's total energy intake or weight gain.

Start»em early It's a natural, human instinct that children have when it comes to food: If they haven't been exposed to a something before the age of 3, they're not going to eat it, because they're afraid it will hurt them.

The early years are when we can make the most powerfully positive difference in a human being's life.

«Scientists discover evidence of early human innovation, pushing back evolutionary timeline: Evidence of innovation dates to a period when humans faced an unpredictable and uncertain environment, according to three new studies.»

I studied history like I said earlier and when you study history, it teaches you that every human being is a grain of sand in the Sahara.

If you follow the evolution of human society per the theory of the early philosophers: Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau; it is posited that when humans decided to move from a state of survival of the fittest in which they roamed in the bush mainly in small family groups and decided to settle in larger societal groups, they needed rules and regulations to order society.