Sentences with phrase «early populations from»

Early populations from Europe and the Near East were not just farming, though.

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So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

According to StatsCan, Canada's business population grew 2 % in the first quarter from a year earlier, the fastest pace since 2008.

Jesuit missionaries in South America used quinine to treat malaria as early as 1600, but legend has it that they heard that it could be used to treat the illness from the native Andean population.

It's a little early for such a strategy since some of the effects aren't clearly known, but from the research I've seen it looks right now that there are going to be areas of his country that are going to run out of water, and disturbingly those are the same areas we have increased population growth.

A striking 46 percent of renters ages 25 to 34 — the core of the millennial population — spend more than 30 percent of their incomes on rent, up from 40 percent a decade earlier, according to a report by Harvard University's Joint Center of Housing Studies.

Early - stage businesses are taking advantage of Jacksonville's emerging startup scene, and it's inexpensive business and labor costs, low taxes, a young population and an attractive quality of life entice entrepreneurs from around the country in ways that the more established tech - hubs of California and New York can not.

By the way, my own «quick mental calculation» shows 7.5 % of US males and 25.3 % of US females (from my earlier sources), assuming a 50 % gender split in a 300M population is only 16.4 % of the total population.

By early June 1099 Jerusalem's population had declined from 70,000 to less than 30,000.

So too are many among the 2 \ % of the population that is homosexually oriented (the 10 \ % figure from the earlier Kinsey Report was fallacious).

As populations shift, as overall church adherence expands, and as religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th century.

An allele which dominates early in the game has a very high probability of completely excluding the other allele from the population.

Nearly one - fifth of the U.S. adult population — and one - third of those under the age of 30 — identify in this way; an increase from 15 percent just 5 years earlier.

It took nearly 2,000 years for the gospel to spread from the early church to nearly half the world's population.

It happens over generations as later generations stay in many ways quite similar but in certain respects become rather different from earlier generations, especially in small, isolated populations facing novel selection pressures.

The new rules ushered in earlier this year from Brussels may well incur incremental costs for bakers and snack manufacturers, but with one per cent of the UK's population potentially suffering from coeliac disease, the market for foods with the gluten sliced out holds considerable potential.

When Roger Chen arrived in the United States from Taiwan in the early 1980s, he quickly noticed that there were no food stores that catered to the growing Taiwanese population in southern California.

Signs and symptoms associated with early pregnancy loss: findings from a population - based preconception cohort.

As of July 1, New York's estimated population of 19,745,289 was down 1,894 people from a year earlier.

One of the themes that emerged early on was the difference between the perception that immigration is a real problem — and that immigrants are taking jobs, houses and money from the indigenous population — and the reality, which is the opposite.

Federal figures from earlier this year showed that 190,900 Erie County residents were on Medicare, and that figure would grow as the population ages.

She says research published earlier this year shows bear population expanding from traditional ranges in the Southern Tier.

The man from Kostenki shared close ancestry with hunter - gatherers in Europe — as well as with the early farmers, suggesting that his ancestors interbred with members of the same Middle Eastern population who later turned into farmers and came to Europe themselves.

All non-Africans stem from one major founding population, the studies agree, but earlier human migrations are also recorded in present - day people's DNA, one study finds.

In this study, researchers analyzed ovarian tissue from populations of reproductively «young» (equivalent to women in their early twenties) and «old» mice (equivalent to women ages 38 - 45).

Analysis of stone tools and ancient DNA suggests an indigenous population, rather than migrants from earlier agricultural communities within the Fertile Crescent.

While fossil records prove that some anatomically modern human groups reached the Levantine corridor (the modern Middle East) as early as 100,000 years ago, genetic testing indicates that human populations inhabiting the globe today descended from a single group that migrated from Africa only 70,000 years ago — an unexplained gap of 30,000 years.

A new University of Washington study, with funding and satellite data from NASA and other agencies, finds a trend toward earlier sea ice melt in the spring and later ice growth in the fall across all 19 polar bear populations, which can negatively impact the feeding and breeding capabilities of the bears.

In Asia and Europe they would encounter populations of hominid species from earlier migrations that had evolved their own differences.

If I had to choose one, I'd say it's the rise in caloric availability from 3,200 per capita per day in the early 1980s to the present 3,900 per day today — roughly twice the population's need.

«The majority have just normal pregnancies, but they're drawn from a low - resource population that's at greater risk of early delivery and developmental problems,» she says.

That ancestor originated roughly 15,000 years ago after diverging from a closely related Siberian dog population about 1,000 years earlier, she said.

The species, Atelopus varius, vanished suddenly from streams across Costa Rica and Panama in the late 1980s and early 1990s, one of the many victims of the deadly chytrid fungus that has decimated amphibian populations around the world.

A substantial population of feral dromedaries, descended from pack animals that escaped in the 19th and early 20th centuries, thrives in the Australian interior today.

Every two years, researchers from the American Cancer Society analyze data for cancer risk factors and screening from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to strengthen cancer prevention and early detection efforts and highlight disparate populations.

It's when the railing is still warm and slightly greasy from an earlier passenger's hand that my thoughts turn to the subway's microbial population.

The researchers used statistical methods from population genetics to analyze three well - known changes in the English language: how past - tense verbs in American English have taken the «- ed» ending, (as when «spilt» became «spilled»), how the word «do» became an auxiliary verb in Early Modern English (as in «Did you sing?»)

Sometimes called Bushmen, the Khoisan are the world's most genetically diverse people and diverged from other populations very early in human history.

Overall, the study's data from mitochondrial DNA — different from nuclear DNA in that it helps scientists trace maternal lineages — reveal that population structure in humpback whales is largely driven by female whales that return annually to the same breeding grounds and by the early experience of calves that accompany their mothers on their first round - trip migration to the feeding grounds.

Finney believes that changes in climate cause the cycles in salmon populations, and as scientists struggle to understand the rate and effects of global warming, salmon may help them distinguish normal climate variations from the early warnings of a system gone dangerously wrong.

«Part of what was exciting about the design of this clinical trial is that we decided early on to accept women from a younger and generally sicker population than is typically enrolled in clinical trials,» says Dr. Cristofanilli, who is also a researcher at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University.

As early as 1991, Cavalli - Sforza proposed the Human Genome Diversity Project: an effort to collect DNA samples from hundreds of populations worldwide.

While the model suggests that present - day Europeans received contributions from at least three ancestral populations, it also suggests that Early Near Eastern farmers carried genetic material that falls outside the typical non-African variation.

«The recent discovery of tumor - promoting milieus, referred to as metastatic niches, that are established at distant sites prior to or upon the arrival of disseminated tumor cells could explain cancer cells that relapse early, but in late relapsing populations, what tumor cells do from the time of dissemination to the time they become clinically detectable has been a big question.»

Earlier surveys and applied research conducted by WCS and the South Sudan Wildlife Service estimated an elephant population of some 2,300 in the country prior to the civil war, which began in December 2013, down from an estimated 79,000 in the 1970's.

In the early stages of plant regeneration, plants benefit from the interaction with animals: bees pollinate flowers and maintain gene flow among plant populations, while birds disperse seeds that can establish as seedlings at new locations.

These occur in geographically isolated populations descended from early pastoralists who lived in different parts of Africa and Eurasia.

In 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) downgraded giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) from endangered to vulnerable, on the basis of a 2011 — 14 population survey by the Chinese government that reported 1,864 adult pandas, up from 1,596 in the early 2000s.

Early herds were vulnerable to disease, droughts and storms, disasters that would have forced pastoralists to replenish herds from wild populations better adapted to harsh local conditions.

The high «genetic continuity» in East Asia is in stark contrast to most of Western Europe, where sustained migrations of early farmers from the Levant overwhelmed hunter - gatherer populations.