Sentences with phrase «about human evolution»

Please do your research on the subject matter, as there is much more to learn about human evolution.

Knowing something about human evolution tells us that we, as a species, have not developed that far.

For example, party and ideology are among several factors that influence public views about human evolution.

Whenever scientists make a major discovery about human evolution, we get treated to a lot of misconceptions.

For decades theories about human evolution proliferated in the absence of hard evidence, but now human genetic data banks are large enough to put assumptions to the test.

«Our primary aim,» they write, «is to put questions about human evolution into a testable, quantitative framework and to offer an objective means to sort out apparently unsolvable debates about hominin phylogeny.»

When Reich entered college, in 1992, most of what scientists knew about human evolution came from fossils.

In the past, most of the big news about human evolution came from remote dig sites in places like Africa or Indonesia.

While the Human Genome Project revealed much about our common humanity, recently scientists have begun to learn a lot about human evolution from the small genetic differences that set us apart.

«Regardless of age, this species is going to cause a paradigm shift in the way we think about human evolution, not only in the behavioral implications — which are fascinating — but in morphological and anatomical terms,» Harcourt - Smith said.

Years later Lee was contacted out of the blue by a journalist from her home country of South Korea and asked to write a series of columns about human evolution for a broad readership.

(That thought comes to mind because I've been learning about human evolution lately).

But Manot is not only a fluke for our knowledge about human evolution.

Because these animals occupy a completely different environment than people do, Muthukrishna says, «they provide us with a useful control group for testing hypotheses about human evolution.»

Erin was previously an associate editor at EARTH and an assistant editor at Smithsonian magazine, where she blogged about human evolution.

So while I think the paradigm has been an extremely positive development on the whole, it has tended to prematurely narrow the kinds of hypotheses that are considered about human evolution.

Differences in religious affiliation and worship service attendance are central to the public's views on a handful of science topics; foremost among these are beliefs about human evolution.

Largely ignored were the great majority of scientists who think the Turkish quadrupeds mean precisely nothing about human evolution.

It's always tempting to make up just - so stories about human evolution, says Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK.

Schwartz's conclusion — that today's reality may be tomorrow's discarded truth, and that ideas which run counter to received wisdom should not be dismissed out of hand — is particularly welcome, and a refreshing sentiment from a participant in the current debates about human evolution.

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Most coverage highlighted that the divide between Democrats and Republicans about human evolution had widened to a 24 — percentage point margin (67 percent of Democrats accept that humans evolved versus 43 percent of Republicans) from just a 10 - point margin in 2009.

Creationists eagerly seized on the statement of Richard Leakey, its discoverer, that 1470 «wipes out everything we have been taught about human evolution [this proved to be wrong], and I have nothing to offer in its place».

And yet often he seems unaware even of what fellow creationists are saying about human evolution, let alone real scientists.

September 30, 2004 Added a review of Gary Parker's book Skeletons in your Closet, a creationist book for kids about human evolution.

Added an article about the human evolution exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History.

Surviving: The Body of Evidence University of Pennsylvania site about human evolution.

She is also the managing editor of This View of Life, a magazine about human evolution, and a teaching assistant in the chemistry department at Hunter College.

Vanessa Woods, an Australian chimp aficionado, had never heard of bonobos until she fell for Brian Hare, an American scientist whose dream is to compare the behavior of chimps and bonobos living in Congolese sanctuaries and figure out what the differences reveal about human evolution.

Laura van Wyngaarden, COO of the Canadian legal AI company Diligen recently spoke at a TechTO event in Toronto about human evolution and our journey from...

One of the best - known theories about human evolution — that the ancestors of Homo sapiens originated in Africa before populating the rest of the world 2 million years ago — is coming under fire.

At a meeting on human origins, held this month in Gibraltar, bones in a Spanish cave and stone tools in Asia sparked controversial new ideas about human evolution and migration.

«There is still a lot we do not know about human evolution and, especially, about the Neanderthals,» said Dr. Zilhão.

Fossil bones and stone tools can tell us a lot about human evolution, but certain dynamic behaviours of our fossil ancestors — things like how they moved and how individuals interacted with one another — are incredibly difficult to deduce from these traditional forms of paleoanthropological data.

The finding challenges an idea central to our thinking about human evolution: that our species didn't properly leave Africa until about 60,000 years ago.

«So, potentially, by studying dogs and domestication we can learn something about human evolution.»

Regardless of the age, Berger said earlier this year, before publishing the H. naledi discovery, the fossils will force paleoanthropology to rethink long - held theories about human evolution.

Palaeoanthropologists often use chimps as «proxies» for our common ancestor, so Ardi's debut may mean that much of what we think we know about human evolution will have to be rethought.

At the time, little was known about human evolution, and Boule's findings made headlines worldwide.

There's a dirty little secret in paleoanthropology: What we know about human evolution is that we don't know much of the story.

For decades theories about human evolution had proliferated despite the absence of much, if any, hard evidence.

What can your experiments tell us about human evolution?

Zimmer's excellent article provides thought - provoking answers to some of the most familiar questions about human evolution.

Brown knew he was looking at something strange, something that would challenge our ideas about human evolution, as soon as he laid eyes on that first skull from Liang Bua Cave.

They argued that his bones provided the answer to a long - standing and delicate question about human evolution: did our ancestors interbreed with Neanderthals?

Evelyn is a soon - to - be third year PhD student at Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins, interested in what growth and development of the mammalian dentition can tell us about human evolution.

Added a page of links to crackpot theories about human evolution.