Sentences with phrase «ancestral humans living»

The Elias lab has shown that pigmented skin provides a better skin barrier, which was critically important for protection against dehydration and infections among ancestral humans living in sub-Saharan Africa.

In indigenous Australians and Papua New Guineans, mingling with the Denisovans (the «other Neanderthal,» an ancestral human living primarily in Asia) introduced genes related to «spermatogenesis, fertilization, cold acclimation, circadian rhythm, development of brain, neural tube, face, and olfactory pit, immunity,» as well as «female pregnancy, development of face, lung, heart, skin, nervous system, and male gonad, visual and smell perception, response to heat, pain, hypoxia, and UV, lipid transport, metabolism, blood coagulation, wound healing, aging.»

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Either way, for ancestral human infants, an inattentive mother would have been implicitly terrifying, because it would have indicated that the infant's life was at risk.

But perhaps more importantly, no human infant (meaning no present living human beings) would or could be alive today had our ancestral mothers not have slept next to their infants for physiological regulation, management, protection, and to breastfeed throughout the night.

What's more, they claim, the ear tubes present strong evidence that it's an evolutionary cousin to the ancestral line of apes from which humans and living apes derive.

* 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.