Sentence examples for timescale of human from inspiring English sources

Gore tells us that the astrologers of ancient Babylon used a double clock – one for measuring the timescale of human affairs and another for tracking the celestial movements they believed shaped earthly events.

In addition to increased research activity and theoretical shifts, by the early 1960s technological innovations for the first time permitted the creation of a reliable absolute timescale of human evolution.

In some cases, environmental changes (both natural and non-natural) have apparently resulted in the formation of stable alternative ecological states (that is, given the short timescale of human appreciation) that are potentially irreversibly different than pre-existing ones, so-called novel ecosystems (Hobbs et al. 2006,2009).

Nevertheless, Kraus (2005): 171) describes barrier breachings, which did "not recover on the timescale of human lifetime" in case the event was so strong that the sediment was transported into deeper water consider the narrow reef and steep offshore slope of Bonaire where it was out of reach for long-term wave action.

On the timescale of human civilisation the stars have largely maintained the same position relative to each other.

This approach is based on the observation that the timescale of human travel is much faster than the timescale of the epidemiological dynamics.

The temporal arrival and disappearance of more complex structures than simple edges and the timescales of human communication are only two examples of the wide possible research that still needs to be explored in this matter.

Although a few random breaks might escape detection on the timescale of a human life, this hypothesis is difficult if not impossible to prove experimentally; since late passage human fibroblasts show increased levels of spontaneous but not of induced DNA damage (40), repair-independent mechanisms probably generate DNA damage in aging cells.

Indeed, the timescale of actual human impact on African vegetation may be causally linked to the awareness of it by Europeans.

This would reduce such a journey to the timescale of one human generation: some of the scientists caught up in the beginning of the project could expect to see results within a working lifetime.

Only 4% of Papua New Guinea's reefs are within officially designated marine protected areas [ 6], and while alternative conservation measures (such as traditional closures [ 7, 8]) do exist, there is a real potential for the faunal and structural composition of Papua New Guinea to be substantially altered in the timescale of a single human generation.