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Our powerful reaction to images, to the expression of emotion in art, to the beauty of music, to the night sky, will be with us and our descendants for as long as the human race exists.
These women are descendants of Polynesian navigators, trained in the old ways by their elders, and now they're passing it on to me.
In chapter two, I photograph the descendants of Arthur Ruppin.
These are the descendants of Hans Frank who was Hitler's personal legal advisor and governor general of occupied Poland.
So to me, the mindset that denies that, that denies that we're in sync with the biorhythms, the cyclical rhythms of the universe, does not create a hospitable environment for women or for people associated with labor, which is to say, people that we associate as descendants of slaves, or people who perform manual labor.
But I also have colleagues who are fine with AI taking over and even causing human extinction, as long as we feel the the AIs are our worthy descendants, like our children.
They were passed down from different ancestors to all their descendants, not just us.
They're descendants of farmers who began migrating from the upper Egypt in the '40s, and today they make their living by collecting and recycling waste from homes from all over Cairo.
So the descendants of the Great Migration could either become precision watchmakers at Shinola, like Willie H., who was featured in one of their ads last year, or they can actually grow a business that would service companies like Shinola.
Finally, Richard Feynman, famous physicist, once wrote that if human civilization were destroyed and you could pass only a single concept on to our descendants to help them rebuild civilization, that concept should be that all matter around us is made out of tiny elements that attract each other when they're far apart but repel each other when they're close together.
My equivalent of that statement to pass on to descendants to help them build artificial intelligences or to help them understand human intelligence, is the following: Intelligence should be viewed as a physical process that tries to maximize future freedom of action and avoid constraints in its own future.
Now, it's not just ancestors we share, descendants.
If you have kids, and they have kids, look how quickly the descendants accumulate.
And she was there, and her descendants, they all lived there, and she cleaned for the boys of UVA.
Now, 83 percent of the victims are Mayan victims, victims that are the descendants of the original inhabitants of Central America.
And when you look at those tiny green algae on the right of the slide here, they are the direct descendants of those who have been pumping oxygen a billion years ago in the atmosphere of the Earth.
Those are built by the descendants of the first organisms that gave us the first fossil on Earth.
And so I envision that our descendants, hundreds of years from now, will embark on an interstellar journey to other worlds.
To understand how traits pass from one living being to its descendants, we need to go back in time to the 19th century and a man named Gregor Mendel.
To clearly visualize how alleles are distributed amongst descendants, we can a diagram called the Punnett square.
As a teenage mother, she has proved that she is a successful wife by bringing children and descendants for her husband, who will carry on his name in the future.
Don't we deserve a hero to remind everyone that our country was build on the struggles of immigrants?" "And what about the struggles of Native Americans who were nearly wiped out and forced into reservations and whose descendants still suffer from poverty and discrimination?
The impact it would leave affected not only these slaves and their descendants, but the economies and histories of large parts of the world.
What happened to those Africans who reached the New World and how the legacy of slavery still affects their descendants today is fairly well known.
Thus, slavery in Europe and the Americas acquired a racial basis, making it impossible for slaves and their future descendants to attain equal status in society.
Because this historical language was never written down, we can only reconstruct it by comparing its descendants, which is possible thanks to the consistency of the changes.
When descendants of these animals later moved onto land, they moved from gill-based ventilation to air-breathing with lungs.
And as the descendants of these explorers, we have their nomadic blood coursing through our own veins.
This is the surprising part: given that you started with just two red-eyed mosquitos and 30 white-eyed ones, you expect mostly white-eyed descendants.
Brian and his team have begun collecting that soil and preserving it in individual jars with family members, community leaders and descendants.
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