Sentences with phrase «homo sapiens»

Various human species, including our own Homo sapiens, have endured ice ages and warming periods as well as floods and droughts.

Changes in fauna, landscapes, and climate were associated with novel adaptive behaviors in the earliest Homo sapiens.

How did Homo sapiens come to be the last species standing?

Extavour's own lab focuses on dissecting insect embryos and ovaries, searching for genetic clues to the origin of multicellularity and the complex organisms that multicellularity made possible, including Homo sapiens.

Medicine may soon look totally different — and so could Homo sapiens.

«Until this discovery, it was assumed that comparable engravings were only made by modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Africa, starting about 100,000 years ago,» says lead author José Joordens, researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University.

As the popular story goes, the brutish hominins were simply no match for cultured, intelligent Homo sapiens and quickly went extinct.

It was provisionally suggested that it belonged to an unusually early Homo sapiens to the east of the Wallace line.

Homo sapiens may not have had sex with Neanderthals after all — but perhaps it doesn't matter in any case

Archaeologist Ladislav Nejman of the University of Sydney said one of the biggest questions is the beginnings of human exploration of this landscape by Homo sapiens who arrived in this area for the first time.

Misliya Cave on Israel's Mount Carmel has yielded what its discoverers regard as a partial Homo sapiens jaw with an estimated age of between around 177,000 and 194,000 years old.

Most large mammals, termed megafauna (animals weighing more than 100 pounds), became extinct in the past 50,000 years, during the late Pleistocene epoch, when Homo sapiens colonized the earth.

As archaic bands of Homo sapiens left Africa and spread over the world's continents, their DNA evolved.

Homo sapiens has already notched up a mind - boggling 200,000 years on Earth.

A half - million years ago, the brains of our ancestors started to grow again; 200,000 years ago they finally reached about the same weight as Homo sapiens brains today.

This past May, concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere reached levels never before experienced by us, Homo sapiens.

Instead, Erlandson and others believe that coastal voyaging began with our modern human ancestors, Homo sapiens.

To achieve human - dolphin discourse, Lilly believed, Homo sapiens and Tursiops truncatus had to share their lives.

Fossils found in Morocco suggest the Homo sapiens lineage became distinct as early as 350,000 years ago — adding as much as 150,000 years to our species» history.

Gould uses this to debunk the idea of progress, particularly in the lineage of Homo sapiens.

But if H. naledi consumed underground plants, Stone Age Homo sapiens in Africa likely did as well, Constantino says.

Adult lactose intolerance appears to have been the normal condition for Homo sapiens 100,000 years ago.

We all carry the same genes for skin color, but our genes responded differently to changes in solar intensity as bands of Homo sapiens migrated away from the unrelenting sun of the equator.

LEAVING EARLY This nearly 200,000 - year - old partial jaw found in Israel indicates that Homo sapiens left Africa a surprisingly long time ago, scientists say.

Yet both Mus musculus and Homo sapiens are nature's children, sharing much perceptual, cognitive and affective processing.

FOSSILS found in Morocco suggest our species began to appear as early as 350,000 years ago — adding as much as 150,000 years to Homo sapiens history.

Or are these remains simply a population of small - bodied humans (Homo sapiens), like ourselves, but with one or more individuals suffering from a developmental disorder?

In 1758 the Swedish taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus dubbed our species Homo sapiens, Latin for «wise man.»

Image: A mussel shell engraved by Homo erectus between 540,000 and 430,000 years ago Credit: Wim Lustenhouwer, VU University Amsterdam Source: Kate Wong's World's Oldest Engraving Upends Theory of Homo sapiens Uniqueness on Observations These scratches may not look like much but they predate the existence of our species, Homo sapiens, and upend any claim -LSB-...]

The find — the first made with genetic, not fossil evidence — suggests that Central Asia was occupied at that time not only by Neandertals and Homo sapiens but also by a third, previously unknown hominin lineage.

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In a new report in Nature Communications, researchers conclude that this Neandertal, as well as others whose mtDNA was previously sequenced, inherited their mitochondrial genomes from mating with an early ancestor of Homo sapiens.

Modern Homo sapiens preceded Neanderthals on Mount Carmel and followed a similar pattern of life for 60,000 years.

Neanderthals had brain ability, tool skills, and cultural advancement comparable to Homo sapiens, so why did they go extinct while humans survived?

The most important sites, dating between 500,000 to 100,000 years ago were based at the lower end of river valleys, providing ideal bases for early hominins — early humans who lived before Homo sapiens (us).

What we call pristine today, Martin says, is a poor reflection of what would be here if Homo sapiens had never evolved.

To be sure, monogamy is possible and in many ways, desirable, but it isn't the default biological mating system for Homo sapiens.

We'll navigate the featureless white using GPS technology, and we'll walk in spots where Homo sapiens has never stepped.

He also speaks of what makes Homo sapiens special.

What is the chance Homo sapiens will survive for the next 500 years?

In this diagram based on a new DNA study, Homo sapiens originates as a genetically distinct species between 350,000 and 260,000 years ago.

«Scientists discover oldest known modern human fossil outside of Africa: Analysis of fossil suggests Homo sapiens left Africa at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.»

«We don't know if early Homo sapiens fossils or the Florisbad individual were genetically related to the Ballito Bay boy,» he says.

19 Meanwhile, the dwindling number of Homo sapiens resentfully move to an old - species planet, to be cared for by androids programmed to feign interest in stories about prostates and half - remembered episodes of Perry Mason.

DEEP PAST A new comparison of ancient and modern human DNA concludes that Homo sapiens emerged earlier than typically thought, perhaps around 350,000 years ago.

As a result, it provides the best benchmark so far for gauging when Homo sapiens originated in Africa, evolutionary geneticist Carina Schlebusch of Uppsala University in Sweden and her colleagues conclude.

What is beyond doubt is that Homo sapiens survived and turned to farming soon after the ice retreated, setting the stage for the rise of modern civilisation.

This personal ornament was created roughly 60,000 years before Homo sapiens reached Europe, say paleontologist Davorka Radovčić of the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb and her colleagues.

Before they disappeared, the Denisovans found time to interbreed with Homo sapiens.

After the first Homo sapiens arose in Africa, several bands walked out of the continent about 60,000 years ago and into the arms of Neandertals and other archaic humans.