Sentences with phrase «first human ancestors»

The remnants of a remarkably petite skull belonging to one of the first human ancestors to walk on two legs have revealed the great physical diversity among these prehistoric populations.

First human ancestors to live on the savannah

Proponents now believe the finds suggest that the first human ancestors to leave Africa may have been far more anatomically primitive — and may have left far earlier — than previously thought.

Long before the first human ancestor struck a fire with a spark from a flint, there were Ice Ages, interspersed with warm periods.

Not exact matches

Ted, our ancestors in Britain were at first barbarians, some of them cannibals whose relish for certain choice portions of human bodies, like well - cooked male buttocks and female breasts, is in the historic record, and it was Christian missionaries who saved our forebears from their savagery.

Genetic science proves that wrong and that while the first humans may have evolved from one subhuman species, all subsequent humans, from every race, were descendant from those first humans — thus confirming the very biblical concept of all humans having a common ancestor.

God made us humans, and little has gone well in human relationships since our first ancestors disobeyed God.

Genetic science proves that wrong and that while the first humans may have evolved from one subhuman species, all subsequent humans, from every race, were descendant from those first humans - thus confirming the very biblical concept of all humans having a common ancestor.

This passage admits of both monogenetic and polygenetic interpretations, since it is unclear whether the «humanoid population» is to be regarded as the first humans, or the immediate ancestors of the first humans.

According to Wall - Scheffler's research on the energetics of load carrying, the latter is the most likely option taken not just by humans but by our first bipedal ancestors.

The origins of Europeans used to seem straightforward: The first modern humans moved into Europe 42,000 to 45,000 years ago, perhaps occasionally meeting the Neandertals whose ancestors had inhabited Europe for at least 400,000 years.

First, when humans» ancestors descended from the trees to sleep on the ground, individuals probably had to spend more time awake to guard against predator attacks.

That's the story of paleoanthropology, at least according to Ann Gibbons's book The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Doubleday, $ 26), a deliciously soap - operatic account of efforts to trace human ancestry through the study of fosHuman: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Doubleday, $ 26), a deliciously soap - operatic account of efforts to trace human ancestry through the study of foshuman ancestry through the study of fossils.

Others contend the two are not human ancestors at all because they appeared around 400,000 years after the first evidence of H. habilis, the earliest in the Homo line.

For the first time, researchers describe a new type of human ancestor on the basis of DNA rather than anatomy

The first divergence produced the gorilla lineage, while the second produced the ancestors of chimpanzees and humans.

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia offer a glimpse of the time when humans and chimps were first going their separate evolutionary ways — and may represent the earliest known human ancestor.

Wouldn't it be neat to know when human ancestors first started making stone tools or to study past pandemics and their sources with crystal - clear clarity?

Previous research had established the wolf as the ancestor of today's dog, but when and where humans first domesticated the animals remained unclear.

The mutations in these regions represent key changes in human evolution over the last 40,000 years, after our ancestors first left Africa and were going global.

Ann Gibbons is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine and the author of The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors, which was a finalist for the LA Times best science and technology book in 2007.

The tools, whose makers may or may not have been some sort of human ancestor, push the known date of such tools back by 700,000 years; they also may challenge the notion that our own most direct ancestors were the first to bang two rocks together to create a new technology.

Subsequent finds have pushed back the dates of humans» evolutionary ancestors, and of stone tools, raising questions about who first made that cognitive leap.

It's also clear how this mild region, sheltered by mountains from the cold steppes to the north and from arid plains to the south, would have appealed to a band of human ancestors who may well have been the first to venture out of Africa nearly 2 million years ago.

Although this provides one of the first glimpses of cooperative understanding outside humanity — and raises the possibility that such abilities might have been present in our common ancestor more than six million years ago — it does not mean that chimpanzees can communicate about a shared goal, like human children.

It has never been «disqualified» as a human ancestor because it never qualified as one in the first place.

The first stems from when humans» ancestors descended from the trees to sleep on the ground.

Comparison of genes on the sex - determining X and Y chromosomes indicates that the ancestor of human sex chromosomes first arose from an identical pair of standard chromosomes approximately 240 to 320...

Previous research has shown that the first instance of fire use occurred around 1.9 million years ago, around the time humans» ancestors began to develop bigger noggins.

William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestors.

First, our early ancestors led the way in human evolution.

The dating of this species is significant, in that a date earlier than habilis makes this species the first habiline, and with its very large brain, a candidate for being a direct human ancestor.

More specifically the scientists provide the first genetic evidence of a scenario in which early modern humans left the African continent and mixed with archaic (now - extinct) members of the human family prior to the migration «out of Africa» of the ancestors of present - day non-Africans, less than 65,000 years ago.

«Scientists believe the almost - complete fossilised skeleton belonged to a previously - unknown type of early human ancestor that may have been an intermediate stage as ape - men evolved into the first species of advanced humans,» Richard Gray wrote in the Telegraph.

In other words, God would have governed all worlds from within human love, first through the original human ancestors and as population naturally expanded, through all people.

The idea is simply that for the first 99.5 % of our existence (ancestors back as far as 2 Million years ago, homo erectus), we only ate wild plants and animals, while for the last 0.5 % of our existence (since the agricultural revolution in the last 5,000 - 10,000 years), humans now almost entirely eat farmed plants and animals.

Using the latest scientific research and studies of primitive tribal lifestyles, Bond first explains the actual diet that our ancestors followed — a diet that was and still is in harmony with the human species.

Humans inherited the ability to fall in love at first sight from our animal ancestors.

They were also created by shortsighted ancestors who believed that human personality was the root of a «warring world,» instead of «political ideology, religious belief, race or nationalism,» as Ms. Roth puts it in the first book.

Recent genetic analysis has revealed that the common ancestor of the modern housecat was Felis silvestris, a species of wildcat that first came into contact with humans around 9,000 years ago.

This lineage may show that humans began selective breeding of dogs soon after first domesticating the wild ancestors of our family pet.

The ancestors of Felis catus first settled alongside humans in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East.

MR:... The first thing developed country governments should do is *** provide resources for adaptation so that people do not have to leave the homes of their ancestors due to human induced climate change.

The First Idea: How Symbols, Language and Intelligence Evolved from our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans

It is with this set of identities, and the lessons of my ancestors, tightly folded together within me, that I have become the first woman to be appointed to the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission.