Anthropologists study topics including Homo sapiens origin and evolution, the organization of human social and cultural relations, human physical traits, how humans behave, the variations among different groups of humans, how the evolutionary past of Homo sapiens has influenced its social organization and culture, and so forth.

His advocacy of Spiritualism and his belief in a non-material origin for the higher mental faculties of humans strained his relationship with the scientific establishment, especially with other early proponents of evolution.

Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of extraterrestrial life.

The discovery and confirmation of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964 secured the Big Bang as the best theory of the origin and evolution of the cosmos.

The discovery of the cosmic microwave background in 1965 lent strong support to the Big Bang model, and since the precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background by the Cosmic Background Explorer in the early 1990s, few cosmologists have seriously proposed other theories of the origin and evolution of the cosmos.

In Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Dennett writes that evolution can account for the origin of morality.

These permanent villages and towns predate those of southern Eritrea and northern Ethiopia suggesting, according to Peter Schmidt, "... it is they, not sites in Arabia that were the vital precursors to urban developments ... likewise students of evolution and distribution of languages now believe that Semitic and Cushitic languages are of African origin.

Darwin's book did not address the question of human evolution, saying only that " Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history ".

It was a widely held idea among traditional theories of the origin of language ( glottology ), assumed as a premise that children's use of language gives insights on its origin and evolution.

A Raetic variant is conjectured to be at the origin or parallel evolution of the Elder Futhark ᛟ.

Paleontology seeks information about several aspects of past organisms: " their identity and origin, their environment and evolution, and what they can tell us about the Earth's organic and inorganic past ".

In 1950, Pius XII promulgated Humani Generis which acknowledged that evolution might accurately describe the biological origins of human life, but at the same time criticized those who " imprudently and indiscreetly hold that evolution ... explains the origin of all things ".

The modern era of cosmology began with Albert Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity, which made it possible to quantitatively predict the origin, evolution, and conclusion of the universe as a whole.

* A much better understanding of the evolution of the universe was achieved, its age ( about 13. 75 billion years ) was determined, and the Big Bang theory on its origin was proposed and generally accepted.

Broom claimed there was a plan and purpose in evolution and that the origin of Homo sapiens is the ultimate purpose behind evolution.

Although quantum evolution may happen at any taxonomic level ( 1953, 389 ), it plays a much larger role in " the origin taxonomic units of relatively high rank, such as families, orders, and classes.

The most widely accepted mechanism for the origin of long-duration GRBs is the collapsar model, in which the core of an extremely massive, low-metallicity, rapidly rotating star collapses into a black hole in the final stages of its evolution.

According to their analysis, the rate of flower size evolution was more or less constant throughout the family except at the origin of Rafflesiaceae, where the flowers rapidly evolved to become much larger before reverting to the slower rate of change.

in 2011, and Islam 2011 ) does not support this linear evolution and instead suggests a second domestication event as the origin of the Erythroxylum novogranatense varieties.

Hinduism includes a range of viewpoints about the origin of life, creationism and evolution.

It addresses the origin and evolution of embryonic development ; how modifications of development and developmental processes lead to the production of novel features, such as the evolution of feathers ; the role of developmental plasticity in evolution ; how ecology impacts in development and evolutionary change ; and the developmental basis of homoplasy and homology.

Compared to most other Cambridge colleges of medieval origin, Magdalene College's chapel is much smaller and cosier, in line with the college's relatively small population.

Because of the different school variations, a compromise set of rules has to be found and this is the origin of the famous Cambridge Rules that will be published in 1863.

In 1843 he discovered nodules of coprolitic origin in the Red Crag at Felixstowe in Suffolk, and two years later he called attention to those also in the Cambridge Greensand and remarked that they might be of use in agriculture.

The origin of the harp, soloists ; Endellion Quartet ; London Sinfonietta ; King's college choir, Cambridge / Adès, Stenz, Cleobury ( EMI Debut )

The origin, organization, and influence of the towns of New England: a paper read before the Massachusetts Historical Society, December 14, 1865, ( Cambridge, 1867 ) ( online version )

The history of the area as a botanical garden has its origin in Henry Harold Pearson, a botanist from Cambridge University who came to the Cape Colony in 1903 to take up a position as professor in the newly-created Chair of Botany at the South African College ( the predecessor of today's University of Cape Town.

This expression came into usage during the last decade of the 19th century ; the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary makes an unattributed claim that the term is of Australian origin.

Despite there being no evidence that this practice goes back more than a few decades, apocryphal tales and oral tradition among some within the University of Cambridge would attribute its origin to the time of the reign of Henry VIII.

While the historicity of this account of the origin of Pennying is almost as doubtful as the validity of its posing actual mortal danger to the Sovereign, Pennying has certainly lasted long enough to become a credible tradition within Oxford, Cambridge and a few other places ( such as the University of St Andrews ) elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish of the University of Cambridge, UK dubbed the first discovered pulsar LGM-1 for " little green men " because the regular oscillations of its signal suggested a possible intelligent origin.

The Hero established Raglan as a leading proponent of the " myth-ritual " theory of the origin of religion, whose antecedents included Sir James Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists.

These workshops were the origin of many companies, including: Cambridge Technology Group, Business @ Web ( which later was renamed One Wave ), Open Environment Corporation, Cambridge Technology Partners, Cambridge Executive Enterprises, Cambridge Technology Enterprises, C-Bridge and CellExchange.

This marked the origin of the Cambridge High School, which began in a new building erected at the corner of Amory and Summer streets and was immediately flooded with over 135 applicants.

The long history of the school is related in An Epoch-Making School, by former Deputy Principal Rosemary Gardiner ( 1983 ), which presents the transformations of the school from its origin as the Higher Grade Schools in Melbourne Place ( 1913 ), through its successive incarnations as the Central School for Boys and Girls and then Cambridge Grammar School for Girls.

" A former Rugby School pupil, Albert Pell, was organising football matches at the university in 1839 but, because of the different school variations, a compromise set of rules had to be found and these are held to have been the origin of the Cambridge Rules.

In sum, it can be said that the techniques and standards of present day have their origin at the turn of the century.

While the origin of state-owned automobiles may be obscured, subsequent developments concerning the assignment, use, and management of state automobiles can be related more clearly.

One can take a vase of about 800 B.C. and, without any knowledge of its place of origin, venture to assign it to a specific area ; ;

`` Such a vicious statement can only have its origin in the desire of a new political candidate to try to make his name known by condemning a man of world stature.

These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to a Turkish alphabet of Latin origin.

By its geological origin, islands forming archipelagos can be referred to as oceanic islands, continental fragments and continental islands.

As neither tune is attributed and both show elements of oral transmission, scholars can only speculate that they are possibly of British origin.

The term can trace its origin to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan when millions of Afghans took refuge in neighboring Pakistan and Iran.

Alternatively they can be organized by whether the raw stock is of natural, or synthetic origin, or by their starting physical phase.

For the case of an object that is small compared with the radial distance to its axis of rotation, such as a tin can swinging from a long string or a planet orbiting in a circle around the Sun, the angular momentum can be expressed as its linear momentum,, crossed by its position from the origin, r. Thus, the angular momentum L of a particle with respect to some point of origin is

Though the origin is ambiguous, the draughtsman of the charter issued by Æthelstan used the term in a way that can only mean ' wide ruler '.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

In certain Gulf Arab countries, " bachelor " can refer to men who are single as well as immigrant men married to a spouse residing in their country of origin ( due to the high added cost of sponsoring a spouse onsite ), and a colloquial term " executive bachelor " is also used in rental and sharing accommodation advertisements to indicate availability to white-collar bachelors in particular.

The origin of the term " born again " is the New Testament: " Jesus replied, ' Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.

* Steric forces between polymer-covered surfaces or in solutions containing non-adsorbing polymer can modulate interparticle forces, producing an additional steric repulsive force ( which is predominantly entropic in origin ) or an attractive depletion force between them.

Thus, the sum of all applied forces and torques ( with respect to the origin of the coordinate system ) in the body can be given by

Many people of Chaoshan origin, also known as Teochiu or Teochew people, have settled in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore, Hong Kong, Cambodia and Thailand ; influences they bring can be noted in the cuisine of Singapore and that of other settlements.

In some circumstances, mainly depending on the origin and the composition of the raw materials used, the high-temperature calcination process of limestone and clay minerals can release in the atmosphere gases and dust rich in volatile heavy metals, a. o, thallium, cadmium and mercury are the most toxic.

The field of computer music can trace its roots back to the origin of electronic music, and the very first experiments and innovations with electronic instruments at the turn of the 20th century.

Centrifugal force ( from Latin centrum " center " and fugere " to flee ") can generally be any force directed outward relative to some origin.

In the case of a central force, relative to the origin of the polar coordinate system, can be replaced by, meaning the entire force is the component in the radial direction.

which can be recognized as a circular path around the origin with radius α.