Sentences with phrase «ancestral human populations»

(3) Starches would have been readily available to ancestral human populations in the form of tubers, as well as in seeds and some fruits and nuts;

Perhaps H. sapiens evolved out of ancestral human populations that inhabited this larger region encompassing Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

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Genetic evidence offers impressive support for human evolution and also strongly suggests that our ancestral population has never been smaller than about 10,000, «Mitochondrial Eve» and «Y - chromosome Adam» notwithstanding.

Even though early human - like species were present at the same time as the ancestors of some present day great apes, the researchers found that the evolutionary history of ancestral great ape populations was far more complex than that of humans.

Warinner and colleague, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., co-direct OU's Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in the past.

These differences suggest that the ancestral population of apes that gave rise to humans, chimps, and bonobos was quite large and diverse genetically — numbering about 27,000 breeding individuals.

The groups that evolved into bonobos, chimps, and humans all retained slightly different subsets of this ancestral population's diverse gene pool — and those differences now offer clues today to the size and range of diversity in that ancestral group.

* Correction, 22 March, 4:42 p.m.: This story has been corrected to remove any implication that because the San's ancestors branched off early from other human populations, living San are unusually closely related to ancestral humans.

Alu - insertion polymorphisms are a boon for the study of human population genetics and primate comparative genomics because they are neutral genetic markers of identical descent with known ancestral states.

Studies show that the San carry some of the most divergent (oldest) Y - chromosome haplogroups, specific sub-groups of A and B, the two earliest branches on the human Y - chromosome tree, suggesting they may be descendents of a population ancestral to all modern humans.

As more human genomes from different populations are sequenced, it will be exciting to see if any traits are associated with carrying the mutated versus ancestral version of polymorphic HARs.

Studies of Chinese populations show that 97.4 % of their genetic make - up is from ancestral modern humans from Africa, with the rest coming from extinct forms such as Neanderthals and Denisovans5.

Rob's taken a more historical perspective, looking at different types of human populations and the impact of ancestral lifestyles on microbiomes.

Although the vast majority of genetic variation exists within populations (Lewontin, 1972), a measurable proportion of human genetic variation does exist between populations of different ancestral origins.