Sentence examples for human lost from inspiring English sources

For weeks, I didn't know what to make of the encounter, and still don't, except that from the vast, denuded valley to the fleeing lion, I couldn't have asked for a starker image of wildness on the run, and me alone, pitiably human: lost, dumb and ill equipped to deal with the danger or the beauty of this place.

And nothing can minimize the humans lost.

It presumably evolved from the head louse after humans lost their body hair and started wearing clothes.

By contrast, as each day's headlines remind us, humans lost their innocence, real or imagined, a long time ago.

Humans lost their body hair, they say, to free themselves of external parasites that infest fur -- blood-sucking lice, fleas and ticks and the diseases they spread.

Dr. Alan R. Rogers, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Utah, has figured out when humans lost their hair by an indirect method depending on the gene that determines skin color.

When Jane Goodall observed chimpanzees making tools in 1960, humans lost their self-aggrandizing status as the world's only tool makers.

Viewers discover that images of humans lost in their private thoughts and beset by anxiety already appeared in Egypt by the mid-third millennium B.C.

But when humans lost their fur, perhaps because they needed bare skin to sweat efficiently, they developed dark skin to protect against ultraviolet light.

In fact, humans lost both stature and strength with the invention of agriculture (Richards 2002).

A new theory proposes that humans lost their thick fur as an adaptation to cut down on parasites and that smooth skin became a sexy symbol of health.