Sentences with phrase «ancestors were at our age»

Many of us are in better physical condition than our ancestors were at our age.

Not exact matches

The thrust of the genetic and archaeological evidence is that the ancestors of Native Americans walked or paddled from Siberia between 13,000 and 17,000 years ago, at the height of the last ice age.

The location, date, and composition of the artifacts suggest not only that our ancestors had adapted to the climate, says Michael Waters, an archaeologist at Texas A&M University, but that they may also have been in a position to migrate across the Bering Land Bridge to North America before glaciers closed off the route at the height of the last ice age.

They add: «What is similar between now and then is the human genetic material, our genome, including ancient polymorphisms that were uncovered to predispose the carrier to the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease... however, our ancient ancestors were certainly susceptible to many other conditions, such as infectious diseases, nutritional deprivation, and trauma, which often resulted in death at an early age, before atherosclerotic heart disease had a clinical impact.»

Modern mimic: The first formalized suggestion that we should be relying on meat and modeling ourselves, at least food-wise, after our cave - dwelling ancestors came from The Stone Age Diet, a 1975 book by gastroenterologist Walter Voegtlin.

They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.

It is worth mentioning that a female Australian Kepli (a presumed ancestor of the Australian Cattle Dog) has recently died at the age of 30 years old.

So for her to be Peach's Daughter is out, but for her to be an ANCESTOR is in, IF Rosalina is, say traveling at light or warp speeds, she would, relative to the Mushroom Kingdom's Earth - Like Planet, age a lot slower than her descendants.

At the beginning of the ice ages 2.5 million years ago, our ancestors were walking upright but had ape - sized brains; they were just starting to make stone tools.