Sentences with phrase «for gene hunters»

For gene hunters, it's relatively straightforward to determine where a version of a particular gene lies on a given chromosome.

Not exact matches

For years, the favored recipe for making a modern European was this: Start with DNA from a hunter - gatherer whose ancestors lived in Europe 45,000 years ago, then add genes from an early farmer who migrated to the continent about 9000 years aFor years, the favored recipe for making a modern European was this: Start with DNA from a hunter - gatherer whose ancestors lived in Europe 45,000 years ago, then add genes from an early farmer who migrated to the continent about 9000 years afor making a modern European was this: Start with DNA from a hunter - gatherer whose ancestors lived in Europe 45,000 years ago, then add genes from an early farmer who migrated to the continent about 9000 years ago.

Gene hunters have had an outstanding year, bagging genes for Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and many other hereditary illnesses.

At least 20 genes under positive selection in cats are associated with vision - related pathways, which fits with the importance of visual acuity for these natural - born hunters.

Our hunter - gatherer ancestors, whose genes we share almost unchanged, would roam their environments on the hunt for food for hours or even days on end.

Some scientific problems with modern paleo movement include: 1) dogmatic insistence on the Raymond Dart model of «man the hunter», which has been contested and supplanted in paleoanthropology for decades; 2) ignorance about the speed of evolutionary adaptation, for example our very recent acquisition of lactase persistence and high amylase gene number; 3) focus on the diets of 80 - 10,000 years ago, dismissing the 40 million years when our lineage were predominantly herbivorous forest dwellers.

Of course, we know that genes alone are not responsible for cancer because we share many of the same genes as our hunter — gatherer ancestors and even just the same genes as our ancestors several generations ago, and yet the rate of cancer keeps going up.

The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy by Mark Sisson is a journey through human evolution, comparing the life and robust health of our hunter - gatherer ancestors with a day in the life of a modern family.