Sentences with phrase «with other ancestors»

I began to feel that the Mass gave me a living connection with my ancestors in England and Scotland before the Reformation and with other ancestors thousands of years earlier than that, in the woods and in the caves on the mudflats of Europe.

Not exact matches

20 When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their ancestors, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting me and breaking my covenant.

Maybe along the way, we will answer the questions about God or some sort of other dimension that explains the stories our ancestors came up with about «God».

The garden of eden is part of myth, wheras humans descending from a common ancestor with other apes is reality.

We also evolved from monkeys, in that we branched off from old world monkeys slightly after new world monkeys had already branched off, so we share a common ancestor with other monkeys.

We share a common ancestor with other eukaryotes, but eukaryotes branched off into tons of different forms of life.

In these and many other ways, we can feel our co-humanity with our ancient ancestors.

No wonder Islam in those areas was being fingered into conflicts and unending bloodsheds in that area if we include Afganistan...!?! No wonder Muslims are being fingered into conflicts at the western countries...!?! Just hope we do not misjudge and hope they will extend hands with Muslims, Christians and others towards improving life on their mainlands their ancestors were rooted from...!!

I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).

Joseph Smith ancestors are along with Eight U.S. presidents are known to be descended from Mayflower passengers, and a number of other famous people including astronauts, poets, politicians, actors and actresses, directors, inventors and others are descendants as well.

And I mentioned the importance of maintaining such continuity as is possible, in this and in other respects, with our ancestors in the Christian fellowship.

Since the phase of man's life which makes modern man's situation most obviously different from that of all his ancestors is technical or mechanical achievement, it is reasonable to suspect that our predicament is associated, in some way or other, with this development.

What I said is that we have no evidence of that common ancestor, only conjecture that it might explain the data we do have (along with other explanations).

With our linguistic feet thus firmly planted in the real world from the time our humanoid ancestors first learned to manipulate noises and marks, we latter - day inheritors of that linguistic ability are in a position to talk about, among other things, where we should pin our hopes for salvation.

[1] Our world is not at the centre of the universe; history starts fifteen thousand million years ago with the Big Bang, we human beings are the result of an evolutionary process, and we share a common ancestor with the other primates.

As our ancestors went from nomads to settling in, discovering fire, growing crops and mixing with other cultures and their food ways, the repertoire of food and its preparation evolved.

IgA and IgG have the potential to retard streptococcal growth; streptococcus mutans is highly susceptible to the bactericidal action of lactoferrin, a major component of human milk.9, 10 Rugg - Gunn reported that cariogenic bacteria may not be able to utilize lactose, the sugar found in breastmilk, as readily as sucrose.8 Confirming the findings of other researchers, this author has evaluated approximately 600 skulls to find little evidence of problems with dental decay among our prehistoric breastfed ancestors.11, 12,13,14,15

By comparing five Canaanite genomes with those of other ancient and modern populations, the researchers identified the Canaanites» ancestors and discovered their descendants, modern Lebanese people.

With our latest collection of Everything Worth Knowing, we aim to catch your curiosity with the story of how our distant ancestors left the oceans, help you learn the basics of talking to E.T. and make sense of the systems that affect how we make decisions — among other thiWith our latest collection of Everything Worth Knowing, we aim to catch your curiosity with the story of how our distant ancestors left the oceans, help you learn the basics of talking to E.T. and make sense of the systems that affect how we make decisions — among other thiwith the story of how our distant ancestors left the oceans, help you learn the basics of talking to E.T. and make sense of the systems that affect how we make decisions — among other things.

He and Just plan on continuing their work with other sciences our ancestors knew little about, including genetics and computer science.

Combined with other features, it also suggests other apes have evolved to be significantly different to the common ancestor we share with them.

We show that Neandertals shared more genetic variants with present - day humans in Eurasia than with present - day humans in sub-Saharan Africa, suggesting that gene flow from Neandertals into the ancestors of non-Africans occurred before the divergence of Eurasian groups from each other.

«This takes us at least a few hundred thousand years back, towards our common ancestor with other hominins.»

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.

For one thing, Suddendorf says, the subjects «already have language and have grown up with language,» and so it would be expected that they would learn more effectively when they could talk to each other, which may not have been true for our earliest ancestors.

While at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Cagan compared DNA from the tame rats and mink at Novosibirsk, and from other domesticated species, with DNA from aggressive counterparts and wild ancestors.

The researchers were trying to find pairs of groups with a common ancestor, in which one group engaged in conflict between the sexes, while the other didn't.

With the dawn of agriculture more than 10,000 years ago, our ancestors began settling in villages and living in larger groups, making tolerance of other people and cooperative behavior increasingly necessary.

Evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare, also at Duke, is part of a small group of scientists who think they might know how humans evolved this ability, sometime during the 5 million to 7 million years since we shared a common ancestor with other primates.

Habitual bipedal locomotion is a defining feature of modern humans compared with other primates, and the evolution of this behaviour in our clade would have had profound effects on the biologies of our fossil ancestors and relatives.

Tibetan brown bears, on the other hand, share a more recent common ancestor with their relatives in Eurasia and North America.

The Persian carpet flatworm, the cuttlefish and the black ghost knifefish look nothing like each other — their last common ancestor lived 550 million years ago, before the Cambrian period — but a new study uses a combination of computer simulations, a robotic fish and video footage of real fish to show that all three aquatic creatures have evolved to swim with elongated fins using the same mechanical motion that optimizes their speed, helping to ensure their survival.

In a new report in Nature Communications, researchers conclude that this Neandertal, as well as others whose mtDNA was previously sequenced, inherited their mitochondrial genomes from mating with an early ancestor of Homo sapiens.

As the ancestors of modern humans made their way out of Africa to other parts of the world many thousands of years ago, they met up and in some cases had children with other forms of humans, including the Neanderthals and Denisovans.

Miller - Struttmann and her colleagues then compared other decades - old data about plants visited by the bees with recent work on bee visits, and discovered that these two species had acquired broader tastes than their recent ancestors, taking nectar from many more kinds of flowers than before.

Instead, Erlandson and others believe that coastal voyaging began with our modern human ancestors, Homo sapiens.

Together with his lab's previous work and that of other pioneers of ancient DNA, the Big Picture message is that our prehistoric ancestors were not nearly as homebound as once thought.

My job was to analyze their anatomical affinities with other human ancestors and use medical imaging to look inside them.

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, and legislation like it in other countries with large indigenous populations, is changing the relationship between archaeologists and the people whose ancestors we study.

By turns wry and giddy, Cormier teases out our uniquely human take on hedonism with tidbits as varied as the power of our orgasms (hint: no other creature on Earth can best us) and what the discovery of a 40,000 - year - old wooden flute reveals about music and our ancestors.

Twenty million years older than the oldest known fossil of a direct turtle ancestor, Eunotosaurus africanus has broadened ribs inside its body and elongated vertebrae in its spine compared with other reptiles, but those bones aren't fully fused to form an external shell as is the case in modern turtles.

Asexual organisms, on the other hand, are stuck with all the mutations their ancestors pass down to them.

Maybe our direct ancestors and Neanderthals largely coexisted (as did many other overlapping hominid species before them), with occasional bouts of quasi-tribal warfare that ebbed and flowed.

But as they moved out of the trees and began walking upright on the ground in the past 5 million years or so, the foot had to become more stable, and bit by bit, the big toe, which was no longer opposable, aligned itself with the other toes and our ancestors developed an arch to work as a shock absorber.

The origins for reptiles contrast with other famous Australian animal groups including marsupials and birds, which include many more species descended from ancestors that lived on Gondwana, a super continent that included Australia, Antarctica, South America, Africa and Madagascar.

With the invention of electric light bulbs in the 1870s, followed by the development of television, the Internet, and other high tech devices, researchers have argued that the duration of sleep has been shortened from the «natural» levels evolved in our hunter - gatherer ancestors.

But other researchers argued that the DNA of living Polynesians showed evidence that their Lapita ancestors had lingered in Melanesia, mixing with the locals and slowly spreading eastward.

«This reflects the initial historical event that brought their ancestors into contact as well as a lack of mixing with other groups since then.»

Furthermore, several molecular studies have concluded that whales share a common artiodactyl ancestor with hippos and are thus more closely related to these animals than to any other living artiodactyl or to a mesonychian.

But the picture has become murkier in recent years, as research teams working in Kenya and farther away in Chad have identified fossils contemporaneous with Lucy that they propose belong to two other species — also candidate human ancestors.