For example, at the time that Darwin first published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ( 1859 ), no remains of human ancestors had yet been found.

Natural selection occurs in modern human populations.

The true forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval Natural law tradition that became prominent during the Enlightenment with such philosophers as John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, and Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, and featured prominently in the political discourse of the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

Natural law is the human " participation " in the eternal law in rational creatures and is discovered by reason.

Natural language processing ( NLP ) is a field of computer science, artificial intelligence, and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human ( natural ) languages.

* Natural language generation: Convert information from computer databases into readable human language.

** Natural rights theories, such that of John Locke or Robert Nozick, which hold that human beings have absolute, natural rights.

Purely through the use of his reason, Hayy goes through all the gradations of knowledge before emerging into human society, where he revealed to be a believer of Natural religion, which Cotton Mather, as a Christian Divine, identified with Primitive Christianity.

* Natural language processing, a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human ( natural ) languages

Natural levees commonly form around lowland rivers and creeks without human intervention.

While traditional industrial capitalism primarily recognizes the value of money and goods as capital, Natural Capitalism extends recognition to natural capital and human capital.

The Physiocrats thought there was a " Natural order " that allowed human beings to live together.

Natural capital and human economic survival.

* Natural rights are rights which are " natural " in the sense of " not artificial, not man-made ", as in rights deriving from deontic logic, from human nature, or from the edicts of a god.

Natural building tends to rely on human labor, more than technology.

* Natural human thinking possesses no advantages over computer minds.

Provided with a human face and a scaly tail, as in Dante's vision of Geryon in Inferno xvii. 7 – 17, 25 – 27, hybrid monsters, more akin to the Manticore of Pliny's Natural History ( viii. 90 ), provided iconic representations of hypocrisy and fraud well into the seventeenth century, through an emblemmatic representation in Cesare Ripa's Iconologia.

** Natural resource, anything obtained from the environment to satisfy human needs and wants

Plastinated human hand, Museum of Natural History, San Diego, 2009Each Body Worlds exhibition contains approximately 25 full-body plastinates with expanded or selective organs shown in positions that enhance the role of certain systems.

Natural hazards include human footsteps, electrical outlets, bugspray, spiders, antlions, lawnmowers, and rain, which washes away pheromone trails and can flood the bottom of ant nests.

Natural hair, either human or from an animal such as a goat or yak, must be carefully sorted so that the direction of growth is maintained, root to root, and point to point.

' Natural laws were thus the statutes of a well governed universe that had been decreed by the Creator with the intention of promoting human happiness.

Natural hazards to eggs or chicks include storms, high winds, and abnormal high tides, and human disturbances can cause the abandonment of nests and chicks as well.

However, for Aquinas, following Aristotle, the State of Nature is not logically ( or temporally ) prior to the politically constituted community but is that community, i. e. for both Aristotle and Aquinas the political state is natural for human beings ( see Encyclopedia of Political Theory, by Mark Bevin, s. v., " Thomism, " Natural Law ").

Natural draft wet cooling towers at many nuclear power plants and large fossil fuel-fired power plants use large hyperboloid chimney-like structures ( as seen in the image at the left ) that release the waste heat to the ambient atmosphere by the evaporation of water.

Natural draft wet cooling Hyperboloid structure | hyperboloid towers at Didcot Power Station ( UK )

Natural convection cooling an Earthship

File: NatureCoolingWallOrania. JPG | Natural cooling and heating wall.

Instead of cooling towers, the station has a man-made cooling lake, which is also a popular fishery — LaSalle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area — managed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

Following a talk by Mr. Clark at the New York State Natural Food Associates Convention, a man from the audience offered to ship his unsprayed apples to the school from Vermont.

Natural gas public utility companies would be given the right of eminent domain, under a bill by Sen. Frank Owen 3, of El Paso, to acquire sites for underground storage reservoirs for gas.

The two most common systems are the classification adopted by the website AmphibiaWeb, University of California ( Berkeley ) and the classification by herpetologist Darrel Frost and the American Museum of Natural History, available as the online reference database Amphibian Species of the World.

Natural allegiance was acquired by birth within the Sovereign's dominions ( except for the issue of diplomats or of invading forces or of an alien in enemy occupied territory ).

* The Natural Religion by Dr Brendan Connolly, 2008

* Almond Production Manual Published by University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, this handbook includes amongst other chapters a history of almonds, trends in orchard management, and almond farm economics.

# Natural gas import and distribution, held by ArmRosGazprom ( ARG ) ( controlled by Russian monopoly Gazprom )

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

Unlike the Oriental Natural, the Akoya pearl, and the South Sea and Tahitian cultured pearls, abalone pearls are not primarily judged by their roundness.

According to The Natural History " by Pliny the Elder:

The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.

In March, 2012 the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruling in an action brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council and others, ordered the FDA to revoke approvals for the use of antibiotics in livestock which violated FDA regulations.

* Expression of viral proteins coupled to MHC proteins on the surface of the infected cell, allowing recognition by cells of the immune system ( such as Natural Killer and cytotoxic T cells ) that then induce the infected cell to undergo apoptosis.

Sir Isaac Newton was probably the discoverer of astigmation ; the position of the astigmatic image lines was determined by Thomas Young ( A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 1807 ); and the theory was developed by Allvar Gullstrand.

He might also have been influenced by the name of a legendary island mentioned in The Natural History by Pliny the Elder.

Natural beryllium, save for slight contamination by cosmogenic radioisotopes, is essentially beryllium-9, which has a spin of-3 / 2.

Natural hazards are posed in Burundi by flooding and landslides.

Natural instruments are still played for period performances and some ceremonial functions, and are occasionally found in more modern scores, such as those by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.

* A Natural arch is formed when a sea stacks is eroded through by waves.

Natural selection is the evolutionary process by which heritable traits that increase an individual's fitness become more common, and heritable traits that decrease an individual's fitness become less common.

* Natural gas ( methane ), used by many for home cooking on gas stoves, has a cyan colored flame when burned.