Sentences with phrase «which homo»

Dave, your «alternative world» would be one in which Homo Sapiens had evolved differently with less self - gratification in short term thinking and more in long term thinking which quite likely would have inhibited the ability to survive the environment present during that time when the «higher» brain functions and complex social interactions were themselves emerging.

We already have a catastrophe the likes of which homo sapiens have never before experienced.

I distinguish between the harsh climate regime in which homo sapiens would have been forced to acquire the skills of intellect and compassion for adaptation (~ 50,000 to ~ 20,000 years ago), and the benign climate regime which allowed these skills to flower into advanced civilization.

-- connect with ancestral ways and sample a lifestyle in which homo sapiens were thought to have evolved.

We already have a catastrophe the likes of which homo sapiens have never before experienced.

I distinguish between the harsh climate regime in which homo sapiens would have been forced to acquire the skills of intellect and compassion for adaptation (~ 50,000 to ~ 20,000 years ago), and the benign climate regime which allowed these skills to flower into advanced civilization.

«This flexibility may have been a key reason for the success of what now appears to be an early radiation» of human relatives, out of which Homo ultimately arose, Ward adds.

Flight from planet Earth For Starkman and other futurists, the fun begins a billion years from now, a span 5,000 times as long as the era in which Homo sapiens has roamed Earth.

The historical Jesus as a proven divine fact is a worldly security with which the homo relgiosus arms himself in his effort to become self - sufficient before God, just as did the Jew in Paul's day by appeal to the law.

Not exact matches

The ethical paradigm of neoclassical economics centers on «homo economicus,» who is driven by self - interest to seek the maximization of subjective material preferences — which is shown to be achievable (under highly restrictive assumptions) by competitive markets.

Yuval Harari, in his book Homo Deus, depicts a data - ist future in which humans become subservient to data, eroding what we consider free will.

Indeed, «work» is so far typical of the human species that it is reasonable to add it to the epithets by which we distinguish it: Homo sapiens is Homo laborans — a «worker.»

But in his intellectual exploration as homo viator, he does not always seem to recognize the extent of his own accomplishment in justifying the profound «Southernness» which is always at issue.

In our materialistic times, man is identified as homo faber — which means that it is his use of tools, his utilization of wood and stone, that differentiates him from the animals; that it is his practical reason, his doing, that marks him as man.

I should add, all these words which describe «sexual orientation»: homo, trans, ped, hetero, etc, are not actual science.

One wonders how Eliade will respond to this nonbook, for it attempts to unmask him as a historian of religions and to unveil him as a Christian homo religiosus immersed in a labyrinthine world in which God is dead.

Something new happened with the rise of the homo species, but this was within a grand and aeons - old scheme of the rise of life, in which the Creator has always been immanent as well as transcendent.

I have referred to the almost contradictory aspect which the section «homo» in the order of primates assumes in the eyes of naturalists: that of a single family suddenly emerging, at the end of the Tertiary Period, to achieve the dimensions of a zoological layer in itself.

Many biologists, and not the least eminent among them (all being convinced that Man, like everything else, emerged by evolutionary means, i.e. was born in Nature) undoubtedly still believe that the human species, having attained the level of Homo sapiens, has reached an upper organic limit beyond which it can not develop, so that anthropogenesis is only of retrospective interest.

Anselm's theory, stated in his classic Cur Deus Homo, runs as follows: because we can not satisfy God's honor, which our sin has violated, Christ volunteered to become human and die for us — thus making good our past disobedience and satisfying our debt to God.

Explicitly or by inference they talk as though Man today had reached a final and supreme state of humanity beyond which he can not advance; or, in the language of this lecture, that, Matter having attained in Homo sapiens its maximum of centro - complexity on Earth, the process of super-molecularization on the planet has for good and all come to a stop.

b We may accept that the human brain reached the limit of its development at the stage which anthropologists call Homo sapiens; or at least, if it has continued to develop since then, that the change can not be detected by our present methods of observation.

Our understanding of sex in the narrower sense of genital activity and in the wider sense of relationship with others has been so altered in recent years that the assumed fixity of thought in this area, with reference to auto - erotism, homo - erotism, and hetero - erotism, along with the related fixity which has been traditionally accepted in respect to judgements upon the right or wrong ways of sexual expression, has been shown to be indefensible by any intelligent standards.

The video, which surfaced on YouTube last week, shows a child in front of the congregation, singing «I know that God is right, and somebody's wrong... ain't no homo going to make it to heaven.»

The model of the human being with which economists work, Homo economicus, is also purely modern.

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.

This patience, which is complemented by a gritty determination to see real legal and economic reforms take hold, is all the more striking in that Ukraine must confront daily the cultural and social deterioration created by the sad reality of Homo Sovieticus: men and women who grew up under a brutal political system that was built on falsehoods, that maintained itself through terror, and that taught everyone that trust in another human being can be very costly.

For Rubenstein, God merges with that death to which all life inevitably moves; to be homo religiosus is to be aware of death.

To take a short deep dive here, there are two types of lactobacilli: homo - fermentative, which produces primarily milder - flavored lactic acid (think yogurt); and hetero - fermentative, which produces lactic acid, but also stronger - flavored acetic acid (think vinegar).

It is generally accepted as fact that prior to some precise point in the past - of which the actual moment in time is not important for discussion - that there was no such thing as a homo sapien.

• His first political campaign was his father's primary race against Ed Koch, during which Mario Cuomo's supporters put up signs in Brooklyn and Queens that said, «Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo.»

The ancient teeth, which feature one of the largest canines of any ancient Homo find, probably come from a member of Homo habilis,

We can guess that this coat was lost by the time of Homo erectus, as its skeleton's proportions show that it was adapting to heat stress like modern humans do, and part of our adaptation involves an enhanced sweat gland cooling system which would not function well with a full coat of body hair.

AS A species made up of eukaryotic cells complete with mitochondria, nuclei and other complex structures, it's easy for us Homo sapiens to look down on the far simpler prokaryotes, the cells of which lack such structures.

While it is widely accepted that the origins of modern humans date back some 200,000 years to Africa, there has been furious debate as to which model of early Homo sapiens migration most plausibly led to the population of the planet — and the eventual extinction of Neanderthals.

The oldest DNA from a member of our Homo genus is a fragment of genetic code from 430,000 - year - old Neanderthal ancestors found in Spain's Sima de los Huesos cave, which stays at a cool 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Language seems to set humans apart from other animals, but scientists can not just hand monkeys and birds an interspecies SAT to determine which linguistic abilities are singularly those of Homo sapiens and which we share with other animals.

One million years ago, this valley was populated by hand - axe - making Homo erectus, which evolved into H. rhodesiensis and then into the nearly anatomically modern H. sapiens idaltu.

«It's more advanced than Homo habilis, which appears later.

Furthermore, these ancient butchers were not members of our own genus, Homo, but the more primitive Australopithecus, specifically A. afarensis, the species to which the celebrated Lucy fossil belongs.

Candidates for southern California's mastodon bone breakers include Neandertals, Denisovans and Homo erectus, all of which inhabited northeastern Asia around 130,000 years ago.

A less likely possibility, Holen says, is Homo sapiens, which reached southern China between 80,000 and 120,000 years ago (SN: 11/14/15, p. 15).

The similarities strengthen the proposal that Lucy's species, which lived from 2.95 million to 3.8 million years ago, was the direct ancestor of Homo.

«Right now, the research group is analyzing the nuclear genome the results of which could provide us with information about its relationship with the Neanderthals and about the existence of genomic variations associated with the immune system that accounts for the evolutionary success of Homo sapiens over other human species with whom it co-existed.

Homo habilis («handy man», «skillful person») is a species of the genus Homo, which lived from approximately 2.5 million to 1.8 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene.

The newly developed method, which saves time and money, will first be used to study obsidian tools made by early humans, including Neanderthals and Homo erectus, tens of thousands of years ago.

Together with a reassessment of known fossils, published in Nature this week by Spoor and colleagues, the find is stimulating new efforts to sort out the mixed bag of early Homo remains and to and to work out which forms emerged first.

Homo ergaster («working man») is an extinct hominid species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which lived throughout eastern and southern Africa between 1.9 to 1.4 million years ago with the advent of the lower Pleistocene and the cooling of the global climate.

Editor's note: The 2015 conference «Fire and the Genus Homo» was sponsored by the Wenner - Gren Foundation, which also supports SAPIENS.

In a paper describing the fossil remains in the April 9 Science, Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and his colleagues suggest that A. africanus gave rise to A. sediba, which in turn gave rise to Homo.