A few researchers have argued that
ancestral humans did not regularly control fire until more recently, and others, such as Richard Wrangham of Harvard University, think that our ancestors mastered fire much earlier.
Not exact matches
Each can serve as a useful tool for determining
ancestral relationships because they don't undergo the shuffling and swapping of genetic material that occurs routinely in most
human chromosomes.
By comparing how gut microbes from
human vegetarians and grass - grazing baboons digest different diets, researchers have shown that
ancestral human diets, so called «paleo» diets,
did not necessarily result in better appetite suppression.
The mutant far more easily infected
human immune cells than
did the
ancestral pseudotype, the team reports today in Cell.
Ancestral humans carried 40.7 million more DNA base pairs than people
do today, researchers report online August 6 in Science.
Much of our enjoyment of earthdog tests as
human participants derives from the clear, obvious, and exuberant joy our dogs display when they are given an opportunity to
do something similar to their
ancestral purpose: going to ground, working quarry, partnering with a
human handler.
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.