Sentences with phrase «about human migration»

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Many also have raised questions about the impact of globalization on the condition of women, on gender issues, on questions of migration, and as we are going to be discussing in this Consultation on the situation of human rights.

The reported slave auctions have raised questions about whether European Union migration agreements meant to curb Mediterranean crossings are instead turning human traffickers into slave traders as increasing numbers of migrants find themselves stuck in Libya, penniless, desperate and vulnerable.

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.

There has been debate about the cause of these discrepancies, and it has been proposed that a hominin migration out of Africa might have occurred prior to the major dispersal of modern 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.

The article is about how specific genetic changes that either cause disease or protect against disease can help researchers trace human migrations over thousands of years.

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.

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.

«Migration decisions, like all livelihood decisions, are about much more than material quality of life,» argues geographer Edward Carr of the University of South Carolina, who studies human migration in countries such as Ghana and was not involved in the Mexico emigration research.

«Studying the history of organisms that we use and breed, and that we've had an effect on, tells us about history as well as culture and human migration.»

The slow migration of humans from Africa to Europe brought about the eventual doom of Neanderthals, according to a new study.

But such newer HAR mutations are found in people around the globe, indicating that they predate the long - distance human migrations that began about 60,000 years ago.

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.

These fragments are traces of interbreeding that followed the «out of Africa» human migration dating to about 60,000 years ago.

Revolutionise scientific understanding of the population biology of infectious disease, by providing an unprecedented level of information about genetic diversity, population structure, evolutionary selection, demography and gene flow, and by enabling this to be linked to information about the behaviour and migration patterns of human and pathogen populations.

«The high - resolution portrait of human genetic diversity afforded by these studies allows new inferences to be made about our migration out of Africa,» write Serena Tucci and Joshua Akey in an accompanying News & Views article.

«The migration of human food choices to pet food and treats is continuing, and as people age, learn more about nutrition and alter the choices they make, those same decisions are being made for their pets at the same time,» says DeLorenzo.

This single, elegant work raises complex questions — which continue to resonate — about land use, food production, population growth, migration, labor, power structures, and human engagement with the natural world.

Back in 2002, when I wrote about «The Megalopolis as Eco-Strategy» (part of a special Science Times section), a lot of scientists told me that the mass migration of humans from rural areas to cities would have environmental benefits in the long run.

What the Human Development report provides is a framework for thinking about how climate change affects the range of options for improving human lives, as experienced through food security, education, health, natural disaster risks, migration, and sHuman Development report provides is a framework for thinking about how climate change affects the range of options for improving human lives, as experienced through food security, education, health, natural disaster risks, migration, and shuman lives, as experienced through food security, education, health, natural disaster risks, migration, and so on.

Of course, given the extensive human migrations over the millennia, these findings are largely presumptive, and only provide limited information about a single line of ancestors on either parental line.

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