Sentences with phrase «ancestors of modern humans»

Berger is not claiming that he has found the missing link — a direct ancestor of modern humans who made a great evolutionary leap from australopith to Homo.

They tend to see ergaster as a direct ancestor of modern humans with erectus being an evolutionary dead - end.

Homo erectus — an early ancestor of modern humans — resembled a squat body builder more than a svelte distance runner, a newly unearthed fossil pelvis suggests.

Paleontologists Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris have long believed the shape of three fragmented femur fossils from Orrorin skeletons shows that the animals walked upright, a trait strongly associated with primate ancestors of modern humans.

These tall, relatively large - brained ancestors of modern humans arose about 1.9 million years ago and soon afterward invented a sophisticated new tool, the hand ax.

Some believe they derived from the Asian ancestor of modern humans called Homo erectus, with their tiny bodies evolving «to survive the constrained resources they faced in a new island environment» although no Homo erectus remains have been found on that island, Flores.

In contrast, the two Neanderthals from European caves that were sequenced for this study — one from Croatia, another from Spain — both lack DNA derived from ancestors of modern humans.

Most analyses of primate evolution over the past two decades have concluded that adapiforms are strepsirrhines, and not direct ancestors of modern humans.

When the ancestors of modern humans migrated out of Africa, they passed through the Middle East and Turkey before heading deeper into Asia and Europe.

Researchers have identified the evolutionary origins of human herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 and -2, reporting that the former infected hominids before their evolutionary split from chimpanzees 6 million years ago while the latter jumped from ancient chimpanzees to ancestors of modern humans — Homo erectus — approximately 1.6 million years ago.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified the evolutionary origins of human herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 and -2, reporting that the former infected hominids before their evolutionary split from chimpanzees 6 million years ago while the latter jumped from ancient chimpanzees to ancestors of modern humans — Homo erectus — approximately 1.6 million years ago.

For almost a century, Neandertals were considered the ancestors of modern humans.

It is currently somewhat controversial whether H. ergaster or the later, Asian H. erectus was the direct ancestor of modern humans.

As the ancestors of modern humans made their way out of Africa to other parts of the world many thousands of years ago, they met up and in some cases had children with other forms of humans, including the Neanderthals and Denisovans.

Now researchers working at two sites on Gibraltar have discovered that Neanderthals were in fact skillfully exploiting the diverse dietary riches of their coastal environment around 40,000 years ago — some 10,000 years before the ancestors of modern humans ever set foot on the peninsula.

Tomas Marques - Bonet of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra noted that studying gene flow between ancient humans such as Neanderthals, Denisovans and the ancestors of modern humans has revealed numerous genes under selection that affect disease and an individual's traits.

These environmental records, in combination with ancient tools that have been excavated from archeological sites within Olorgesailie, help tell the tale of a hominin species that could very well be the ancestor of modern humans.

It gives an excellent account of scholars» perceptions of Neanderthal's place in human prehistory, which changed according to whether they were regarded as the ancestors of modern humans, or as an extinct side branch.

Homo sapiens, the ancestor of modern humans, shared the planet with Neanderthals, a close, heavy - set relative that dwelled almost exclusively in Ice - Age Europe, until some 40,000 years ago.

Groups of Homo erectus that remained in Africa may in fact be the direct ancestors of modern humans.

A new study debunks the idea that a diminutive early human species knick - named the «hobbits» of Indonesia were closely linked to an ancestor of modern humans.

Still, he doubts H. naledi was a direct ancestor of modern humans.

Approximately 750,000 years ago, according to Rogers, the forerunners of Neanderthals and Denisovans left the ancestors of modern humans behind in Africa to make their way across Eurasia's expansive territory.

Paleoanthropologists have disagreed about how they relate to other human groups, some positing they were ancestors of both modern humans and Neanderthals, others that they were a nonancestral species replaced by the Neanderthals, who spread across Europe.

The area holds a unique position in the story of human history: It may be where the ancestors of modern humans first interbred with Neanderthals.