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The last common ancestors between humans and chimps date somewhere between six and eight million years.
There are a number of reasons to doubt that the human mind is a blank slate, and some of them just come from common sense.
But if you instead look at what is common to the world's cultures, you find that there is an enormously rich set of behaviors and emotions and ways of construing the world that can be found in all of the world's 6,000-odd cultures.
Now, given both the common sense and scientific data calling the doctrine of the blank slate into question, why should it have been such an appealing notion?
I think we're sort of on the cusp of robots becoming common, and I think we're sort of around 1978 or 1980 in personal computer years, where the first few robots are starting to appear.
They are pretty common.
But I believe that the first step towards holding conversations about things like equity is to begin by building a common language.
We also trained fresh graduates, female and male, which is not very common in the community.
What if we ran a campaign that was not about running against someone, but was about bringing people together behind a common vision?
It allows you to draw all the stakeholders in your community that care about homelessness or crime-fighting or education or vacant and abandoned properties, and bring those people to the table so you can work together to address your common goal.
And so we've got white folks and black folks, Hispanic folks and Native American folks, we've got members of Congress, members of the city council, business leaders, religious leaders, Trump people and Hillary people, all joined by one common belief, and that is that a kid should have an equal shot at a good life in our city, regardless of what part of town they happen to be born in.
The thing that all the work has in common is that it challenges the assumptions about conventions of space.
It was easy: we immediately realized that mobile phones were becoming increasingly common in Africa and most of the regions could get access to one.
It may sound for many common sense, but it's not common practice, and that's why actually many reforms fail.
As a public and as citizens, we no longer know if we're seeing the same information or what anybody else is seeing, and without a common basis of information, little by little, public debate is becoming impossible, and we're just at the beginning stages of this.
When did we come to live in a world where these types of typos, common errors, this do-your-best attitude or just good enough was acceptable?
And this was a pretty common sight.
They take on many forms, but the common thread is that they're uncontrollably fascinating to us as human beings, because they're portals to a memory, and they hold the important power of keeping stories alive.
FDG is a common one because the rate at which cells consume glucose can signal the presence of cancer; the location of an infection; or the slowing brain function of dementia.
In addition, it lowers our cortisol levels, thus reducing anxiety, which is a common stimulant for neurological symptoms.
But nevertheless, there are certain common threads that emerge from these comparisons of past societies that did or did not collapse and threatened societies today.
One interesting common thread has to do with, in many cases, the rapidity of collapse after a society reaches its peak.
Vemma was eventually charged with operating a pyramid scheme: a common type of fraud where members make money by recruiting more people to buy in.
It also helps reduce the risk of the most common cancers, like breast, prostate and colon.
Stories like ours are, unfortunately, far too common.
In the United States, it's the most common reason patients are admitted to the hospital, and it's our number one health care expense.
In the not-too-distant future, repairing humans is going to go from something that is far-fetched science fiction into common medical practice.
Why is this so much more common and yet people haven't heard of it?
Today, no one can say for sure what the common motif of a knight fighting a snail means— or why the knight so often appears to be losing.
But the margins show a fox being hanged by geese, a possible allusion to the common people turning on their powerful oppressors.
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