Sentences with phrase «from sapiens»

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We didn't evolve from monkeys... we evolved from apes (h0m0 sapiens means wise ape), with a common ancestor to monkeys.

Fair is foul and foul is fair is the paradox of our decade and the crisis of culture and character, with no happy denouement in sight, may well escalate to end in a collapse and chaos unless we act globally and locally to save homo sapiens from going back to barbarity.

Ho.mo sapiens evolved from ho.mo erectus about 250,000 years ago.

The direct creation of each human soul at the moment of conception was also regarded as a theological difficulty - since the conference accepted that homo sapiens had evolved from non-rational animal precursors.

From the time the species Homo sapiens consolidated itself to become the only survivor of the various hominoid species that had evolved as a result of divergence, humankind slowly spread over the earth, moving into previously uninhabited areas.

At the same time, the H. neanderthalis genomic evidence indicates that they truly were distinct from H. sapiens.

Who knows, maybe 160 million years from now there will be even more highly intelligent beings around here, who will look back at h.o.mo sapiens with quizzical interest; and will discuss the many strange ideas that we had.

Some 4,000 years ago, the 6 breeding humans from the boat began the pro-create at an astounding rate, somehow seeding the entire planet with the diversity of ho / mo sapiens we see today.

Add to this extant biogeography, Neanderthal DNA sequences clearly showing their distinction from H. sapiens, demonstrable speciation in the lab and in the field, etc, etc..

As he states at the outset, this is a book about life, the universe and everything, from the Big Bang to the ascendancy of H - omo sapiens.

Jesus» life stands as a model of the transition from Homo sapiens to Homo universalis.

Thirteen theses in defense of so - called heteronormativity and other supposed heresies, from a Christian and specifically Catholic perspective, for the purpose of public debate: 1) Homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species that depends for its propagation and socialization on the complementary....

John Calhoun takes a long overview of the history of homo sapiens from the earliest beginnings of his cultural pilgrimage to the present.

The earliest known fossils of homo sapiens date from about 100,000 years ago, and paleontologists tell us that hominid species go back some 4.4 million years.

These tiny but intricate carvings from mammoth - ivory are the work of early Homo sapiens, having been radiocarbon - dated to between 30,000 and 33,000 years old, and therefore represent some of the earliest known symbolic art.

Now, we're asking Homo sapiens to crank up their interesting by telling a better version of the truth — adding that extra something to take their stories from dull to dazzling, whether it's in an Instagram post or a tale told over an ice - cold Dos with friends.»

One wonders what we can learn from the practices of a subspecies of homo sapiens that did not survive, while modern humans did survive.

They came from Africa, reached the Levant, then retreated or went extinct before a second, successful wave of African Homo sapiens arrived in the region around 60,000 years ago.

As researchers recently sequenced the genomes of more than a dozen ancient members of our species, Homo sapiens, in Europe and Asia in rapid succession, they added a third genetic component: a «ghost» lineage of nomads who blew into northeast Europe from the steppes of western Asia 4000 to 5000 years ago.

The invariance likely results from either a recent selective sweep, a recent origin for modern Homo sapiens, recurrent male population bottlenecks, or historically small effective male population sizes.

A 45,000 - year - old leg bone from Siberia has yielded the oldest genome sequence for Homo sapiens on record — revealing a mysterious population that may once have spanned northern Asia.

But the problem with this idea is that no remains of anatomically modern humans have been discovered in the Middle East from this crucial period, after H. sapiens left Africa and before it colonized Europe and Asia.

From this, he proposes a new theory for the evolution of the human brain: Homo sapiens developed rounder skulls and grew bigger parietal cortexes — the region of the brain that integrates visual imagery and motor coordination — because of an evolutionary arms race with increasingly wary prey.

We thought that Homo sapiens were confined to Africa until 120,000 years ago, but a jawbone from an Israeli cave reveals an exodus over 170,000 years ago

There is no getting away from it: Homo sapiens is both the basest of animals and the most noble.

But to my mind that is not how it has turned out — rather the reverse with a near equivalence of a modest 20,000 genes across the vast range of organismic complexity from the millimetre - long Caenorhabditis elegans to the 60 - trillion - celled Homo sapiens.

Discovered deep in a cave by amateur speleologists, the partial cranium also fills a major gap in the fossil record of Homo sapiens» journey from Africa to Europe.

The skull was unquestionably from H. sapiens, says Hershkovitz: it was similar in shape to those of earlier African and later European humans.

Trinkaus and colleagues, describing the partial skulls in March in Science, won't speculate on whether they belonged to Homo sapiens transitioning from archaic to modern, the elusive Denisovans or an as - yet - unidentifi ed hominin species.

Language seems to set humans apart from other animals, but scientists can not just hand monkeys and birds an interspecies SAT to determine which linguistic abilities are singularly those of Homo sapiens and which we share with other animals.

«Thus, both palaeo - anthropological and genetic evidence increasingly points to multiregional origins of anatomically modern humans in Africa, i.e. Homo sapiens did not originate in one place in Africa, but might have evolved from older forms in several places on the continent with gene flow between groups from different places,» says Carina Schlebusch.

When the team compared these scans with those of the skulls of Homo sapiens from temperate regions, they found Neanderthals» sinuses were only bigger because they had bigger faces; the two species» sinuses had the same relative size relationship (Journal of Human Evolution, DOI: 10.1016 / j.jhevol.2010.10.003).

Newly excavated Middle Stone Age tools and red pigment chunks from southern Kenya's Olorgesailie Basin appear to have been part of a long trend of climate - driven behavior changes in members of the Homo genus that amped up in H. sapiens.

TOOLING DOWN By around 320,000 years ago in East Africa, Homo sapiens or a close relative had shifted from making large chopping implements (left) to fashioning spearpoints and other small tools (right).

Now the residue from all the oil and coal burned to power modern civilization may provide the best marker for the start of a new geologic epoch that highlights Homo sapiens's world - changing impact, known as the Anthropocene, or «new age of humans.»

Oldest known Homo sapiens fossils come from northern Africa, studies claim.

Studies of DNA from living Africans, and from the 2,000 - year - old African boy, so far indicate that at least several branches of Homo — some not yet identified by fossils — existed in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago, says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin — Madison, a member of the H. naledi team who refrains from classifying Jebel Irhoud individuals as H. sapiens.

Still, additional genetic analyses have typically led researchers to conclude that Homo sapiens arose in Africa and replaced the archaic humans it encountered as it spread out from its birthplace without mingling with them.

There is a lot of indication that suspiciously points a finger to us; us being Homo sapiens, because their extinction seems to coincide with the arrival of human beings on land mass after landmass, and then after a while back, there is this question from it: «Well, if human beings wiped out all the animals on this landmass and, why do we still have big animals in Africa?»

That woman was part of the first population of our species that inhabited Europe following the Eurasian expansion of Homo sapiens from Africa, and the lineage she belongs to reinforces the hypothesis of a back - migration to Africa during the Upper Palaeolithic, say investigators.

«We are actually transitioning from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis — a creature that begins to directly and deliberately engineer evolution to its own design.»

From this data, we've known for three decades that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa some 200,000 years ago.

Churchill and Hare were part of a group that studied a sample of Homo sapiens skulls dating from 200,000 years ago through to the present.

Rose calls them «a trail of stone breadcrumbs,» strewn by a group of H. sapiens from the Nile Valley to Arabia.

Just 70 000 years — the merest eye - blink of geological time — covers our ancestors» transformation from smart ape to self - conscious Homo sapiens.

Stone tool makers ventured from Southeast Asia to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi deep in the Stone Age, far earlier than previously thought and probably before Homo sapiens originated in Africa 200,000 years ago, researchers say.

For these researchers, the bursts of demographic expansion caused by climate change in southern Africa were probably key factors in the origin of modern humans» behaviour in Africa, and in the dispersal of Homo sapiens from his ancestral home.

The most recent glacial period, for example, occurred from roughly 90,000 years ago until 15,000 years ago, and Homo sapiens who had mastered the widespread use of fire were around for the entire duration.

These first members of our H. sapiens clan evolved in Africa some 200,000 to 300,000 years ago from more primitive Paleolithic foragers.

Researchers have yet to retrieve DNA from fossils dating between 200,000 and 300,000 years old that either securely or possibly belong to H. sapiens.