Sentences with phrase «ancestors thousands of years old»

Some people trace their origins back to antiquity and ancient Greece, making their direct ancestors thousands of years old.

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But imagine your ancestors from thousands of years ago — a mama prechewing some rib meat from a bear, spitting it out, and offering it to her 5 - month - old.

Paintings and engravings made by ancestors of the San peoples encode the history and culture of a society thousands of years old

Our ancestors going back thousands of years show signs of atherosclerosis, as suggested by modern research using CT to detect evidence of calcium deposits associated with atherosclerotic plaques in the arteries of mummies as old as 5,000 years.

«Our results show that we can now study DNA from human ancestors that are hundreds of thousands of years old.

Though its physical features are closer to human than other australopithecines, A. sediba is hundreds of thousands of years younger than the oldest fossils assigned to the genus Homo, meaning it is unlikely to be our direct ancestor.

«Because DNA rapidly degrades in the tropics, genetic studies are not possible in fossils of human ancestors older than only a few thousand years,» she said.

The mass production of grains through agriculture is only a few thousand years old... Compare that to our ancestors historical existence as hunter - gatherers as far back as a couple of million years, and our current species (homo sapiens) 200,000 - year history as hunter - gatherers.

Somewhere in the forest above me, among the thousand - year - old cypresses, lies the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the mythic ancestor of the Chinese people.

You can learn how his ancestors lived for thousands of years, taste local native foods and gain an understanding of the world's oldest living culture.