Sentences with phrase «about ancient humans»

Confused by the flood of news about ancient humans?

Researchers were able to determine the genome of stomach bacteria that infected the famous Iceman at the time of his death, in the process giving us clues about ancient human migrations.

«It is a very exciting article about an ancient human DNA genome that is helping us better understand the peopling of the Americas,» he said.

Not exact matches

You just have to take the time to think about it long enough to see that these ancient written texts were written by humans with less knowledge about science than we have now.

Disputed questions about the nature of Christ's divinity or the details of human salvation are not ancient quarrels that modern Christians ought to forget.

When I speak about the Bible as a human product, I have sometimes thought we should say at the end of a lectionary reading, «Some thoughts from ancient Israel.»

For wisdom about the human condition, ancient scripture can be interesting and revealing — as can any good literature, visual art, poetry, music, and such.

Apparently, reading ancient hieroglyphs and cave paintings in the here and now tell us more about the truth of the alienated human being than any day to day feeling of ennui while ordering a latte at Starbucks.

Rather, what is needed in Indianapolis and Atlanta and everywhere today, like what was needed in ancient Jerusalem, lies deep underneath such issues: the truth about human hurt and human hope.

Earlier this week The Guardian ran a story about human sacrifice and ancient Roman history.

Researchers found a way to test ancient teeth for clues about when humans cut nursing short.

Higham's team collected and radiocarbon - dated about 20 samples of artifacts and animal bones with cut marks, which presumably were discarded by ancient humans.

In February, researchers published the first ancient American human genome, sequencing DNA from the remains of a boy known as Anzick - 1, who was buried about 12,600 years ago in what is now western Montana.

Perhaps strangest of all are the self - replicating, viruslike pieces of DNA that infected ancient humans and still make up about 8 percent of our genome.

Scuba - diving archaeologists have unearthed artefacts from an ancient butchering site that seem to settle a debate about when humans spread across the Americas.

The Well - Tempered City What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life

From ape to human, the brain grows about fourfold, but most of that increase occurs in the cortex, not in more ancient structures.

Researchers have little clue about H. floresiensis» evolutionary relationship to other ancient - human relatives, and whether they mated with humans or other species is an open question.

Prompted by the extraordinary DNA identity, the scientists used information from decades - old botanical collections, knowledge of the seasonal movements of ancient hunter - gatherer - farmers and molecular DNA clock calculations to work out that the plants» seeds had almost certainly been transported by humans about 10,000 years ago.

Scientists have been giving us new views of the prehistoric world in the past decade that hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

Three ancient river systems, now buried, may have created viable routes for human migration across the Sahara to the Mediterranean region about 100,000 years ago, according to research published September 11 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Tom Coulthard from the University of Hull, UK, and colleagues from other institutions.

Even as the first Clovis tools were being found at Blackwater Draw, other archaeologists were discovering evidence of ancient human activity in Chile at about the same time as the Clovis culture.

In order to compare the ancient humans to present - day people, the team also generated genome - wide data from about 2,400 humans from almost 200 diverse worldwide contemporary populations.

The new views of the prehistoric world hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

«Ancient ancestor of humans with tiny brain discovered: Homo naledi raises intriguing questions about our evolutionary past.»

Bees began specializing as pollen and nectar feeders and living in social groups about 60 million years ago — their ancient biology was then suddenly expected to keep pace with a barrage of changes that humans had exposed them to over just 200 years.

Human sacrifice took place at one time or another in just about every ancient civilization in which someone had the rank and power to decide who died, until the rise of Judeo - Christian and Islamic religions that condemned it.

Walking upright is one of the defining features of the human lineage, and as feet are the only structure that make contact with the ground in bipeds, they can tell us a lot about our ancient relatives» way of moving.

«This significantly shifts debates about the origins of art - making and supports ideas that this fundamental human behaviour began with our most ancient ancestors in Africa rather than Europe.

Remnants of ancient viruses, which make up about 8 percent of the human genome, are not just silent hitchhikers.

Archaeologists have made a discovery in southern subtropical China which could revolutionise thinking about how ancient humans lived in the region.

This contrasts with many archaeological sites in Russia, Europe, and the Americas where ancient humans are rarely directly related to living people nearby, thanks to wholesale migration and mixing since the invention of agriculture about 12,000 years ago.

We have known about this human and animal pathogen, TB, since ancient times, and it has always been considered something that is transmitted either through oral or aerosol exposure,» said lead study author Kathleen Alexander, DVM, PhD, professor, Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

Now, researchers say they've come up with RNA probes that filter out human DNA quickly and cheaply, meaning we can learn a lot more about our ancient relatives.

But new genetic studies of ancient DNA from Neandertals have found that they and the last ancestor they shared with humans, about 600,000 years ago, also lacked much genetic variation, which would require at least three dramatic bottlenecks — an improbable scenario.

The connection between group size and facial evolution tells us something about our own ancient history too, since human faces are about as plain as it gets.

Now, DNA from an ancient femur bone has revealed that humans and Neandertals were mating and mixing about 52,000 to 58,000 years ago — a much smaller window than the previous best estimate.

Although it was just about possible to dismiss A. sediba, with its assortment of ancient and modern features, as a quirk of human evolution, the new find hints that such «mosaicism» is not the exception in early humans but the rule, says Berger.

«They can play the ancient game of Go and beat the best human player in the world, as done recently by DeepMind's AlphaGo about a decade before anybody expected.

«The ability to identify nicotine and other plant - based drugs in ancient dental plaque could help us answer longstanding questions about the consumption of intoxicants by ancient humans,» said Shannon Tushingham, a WSU assistant professor of anthropology and co-author of a new study on the research in Journal of Archaeological Science Reports.

The new discovery may reveal details about the settlement, survival techniques and technology of ancient humans.

Naturally, paleoanthropology also plays a key role, as we have to turn to the fossil record for many clues about our ancient primate, human and nearly human ancestors.

This ancient lineage of humans went extinct about 40,000 years ago, about the same time modern humans expanded across the world.

The «Out of Africa» theory of human migration proposes that our ancient Homo sapiens ancestors evolved in Africa before migrating in a single wave to the Asian continent about 60,000 years ago.

The discovery of ancient human remains in an important cave site in South Africa raises major questions about the evolution of our direct ancestors, Homo sapiens.

While still carefully thinking about how best to utilize the MacArthur stipend, Novembre is excited for upcoming projects focusing on ancient DNA, particularly in human populations from within the past 10,000 years.

While many different schools of health and performance have unique philosophies about how to reestablish harmony and ideal function in the human system, most modern practitioners of the health sciences are shifting some of their focus to ancient views — namely, that a healthy gut is the foundation of longevity and vitality.

It embodies an ancient philosophy based on a deep understanding of eternal truths about the human body, the mind and the spirit.

In case you're new to the science of Paleolithic nutrition, humans don't actually need grains to survive... grains were never a part of the ancient human diet until agriculture came around only about ten thousand years ago.

These most intimate of ancient human artifacts were often ignored or discarded during many previous archaeological excavations, but careful study of materials painstakingly recovered from human paleofeces says a lot about what ancient human dietary practices were like, given their incredibly high content of fiber, undigested plant remains.