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Thank the ancestors of people in Copenhagen and Oslo for the fact that today we don't ask for a handful of pea-night instead of peanuts.
But about 10,000 years ago, our ancestors began to learn the secrets of selective breeding and early agricultural techniques.
Back then, our once-nomadic ancestors began to settle in the Crescent.
Our ancestors created these hand axes 1.5 million years ago, shaping them to not only fit the task at hand but also their hand.
All of the crops that we eat today, wheat, rice and maize, are highly genetically modified from their ancestors, but we don't consider them GM because they're being produced by conventional breeding.
Scientists think that crying and feeling withdrawn is what originally helped our ancestors secure social bonds and helped them get the support they needed.
Our cavemen ancestors and favorite poets might not want any part of such a paradise.
If you go back in your own family history, chances are you will discover that at a certain point, your ancestors were forced from their homes, either escaping a war or fleeing discrimination and persecution.
In meat-heavy diets, there would have been a low-risk of cavities developing because lean meat contains very little sugar, but that's not all our early human ancestors ate.
See, they were connected around something, just like our ancestors who evolved their social cognitions telling stories around the campfire.
I take inspiration from our ancestors.
Our primitive ancestors, when they found their homes and livelihood endangered, they dared to make their way into unfamiliar territories in search of better opportunities.
Along the path from our wormy, Cambrian ancestors to primates dressed in suits, innumerable forks in the road led us to this very particular reality.
Now go back to the Cretaceous Period and look at our tiny, fuzzball ancestors.
Our Chinese ancestors constructed a very complicated theoretical framework based on yin and yang, the five elements and the 12 zodiac animals.
Our ancestors were very busy surviving poverty, drought, famine, riot, disease and civil war.
For nationalists, globalism is rapidly deconstructing what our ancestors took decades to build.
All of us, whether we realize it or not, seek answers to these questions, with our ancestors kind of whispering in our ears.
We should live like our immigrant ancestors.
That, not something as mundane as making money, is a tribute to your ancestors.
Slapping thighs, shuffling feet and patting hands: this was how they got around the slave owners' ban on drumming, improvising complex rhythms just like ancestors did with drums in Haiti or in the Yoruba communities of West Africa.
They evolved over 4.4 million years ago among our first ancestors, and they're not going to change if you swipe left or right on Tinder.
When you sit down in a bar, in a coffee house, on a park bench, your ancient brain snaps into action like a sleeping cat awakened, and you smile and laugh and listen and parade the way our ancestors did 100,000 years ago.
For millions of years, our ancestors lived in little hunting and gathering groups.
She, people like her, her ancestors, have not had the best experiences at the hands of doctors and the hospital or insurance companies.
Their ancestors appeared around the same time as the first small mammals, and they were probably able to survive because they were evolving— and growing—at the same time as their mammalian predators.
Well, our ancestors lived immersed in conflict, and they fought right where they lived.
But that is exactly what our ancestors did.
She's ripping these things to shreds and keeping her claws in tip-top shape because this is exactly what her ancestors did in order to survive.
From the moment that our ancestors, perhaps two and a half million years ago or so, began imitating, there was a new copying process.
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