Sentences with phrase «ancient ancestors»

These were amazingly ancient ancestors, a new study finds.

«This significantly shifts debates about the origins of art - making and supports ideas that this fundamental human behaviour began with our most ancient ancestors in Africa rather than Europe.

Unexpected sophistication is also turning up among our even more ancient ancestors.

A new analysis of bones, feathers and teeth from 120 dinosaur species validates what some scientists had suspected: Modern birds» ancient ancestors evolved quickly and shrank continually, researchers report in the Aug. 1 Science.

It's strange that it did not occur to hardly anyone before the 1970s — as far as I know — since it would seem to be the «natural» thing that presumably was done by our most ancient ancestors.

clade The entire group of living and extinct species that all descend from some common ancient ancestor.

The post that seems to have caused much of the excitement was «Exceptional Humans Did Not Evolve from Apes,» which briefly commented on the latest scientific discovery about our putative ancient ancestors.

OUR ancient ancestors are off the hook about contributing to climate change.

From millimeter - scale dots in surface waters to relative giants in the depths, larvaceans have jellyfish - translucent bodies but a cordlike structure (called a notochord) reminiscent of very ancient ancestors of vertebrates.

Human hands may have changed little from those of ancient ancestors while chimps» hands have continued to evolve, researchers say.

Exclusive to One Kings Lane: Following the time - honored skills of ancient ancestors, this brightly hued hammock is painstakingly crocheted by hand by artisans in the north of Colombia.

Using information from fossils, and the DNA of living species, we were able to further determine that at around 24 million years old, Palaeopotorous is not just primitive, but likely represents the most distant forerunner of all known kangaroos, rat - kangaroos and their more ancient ancestors,» said Dr den Boer.

There is some controversy surrounding the scientific rationale of eating like our ancient ancestors — i.e., animal proteins and plants, the kinds of foods and that would be amassed by a hunter - gatherer society.

This is where human morality originated as even the burried remains show that our ancient ancestors cared for those in their social groups and cave paintings show that knowledge was being passed down from one generation to the next more than 45,000 years ago.

In these and many other ways, we can feel our co-humanity with our ancient ancestors.

Apparently he thought of it as coming in with «Adam's fall,» the transgression of an ancient ancestor fastening sin upon his descendants; but he also thought of it as related to the activities of demons, about the existence of which neither Paul nor his contemporaries had any doubt.

1) Adam and Eve sought an understanding of good and evil 2) God Expected Adam and Eve to be good (obedient) without having an understanding of good and evil 3) It was better to punish Adam and Eve instead of fixing them 4) It was a good idea to punish us today because of something our ancient ancestors did

Are all of our ancient ancestors in hell?

In the first place, our ancient ancestors created a 10 - digit numbering system only because we happen to have 10 fingers.

Probiotics, especially the soil - based ones (the kind we'd be exposed to if we worked outside, got our hands dirty, and generally lived a human existence closer to that of our ancient ancestors), really seem to mesh well with resistant starch.

It seems like we've gone back to the woods, retracing the culinary steps our ancient ancestors trod around the campfire as we reach out for ever more exotic meats to grill up in our backyards.

Juicy and sweet fig is one of the first fruits in which our ancient ancestors -LSB-...]

I am participating in the ritual of creation that my ancient ancestors knew.

Spelt is an ancient ancestor of modern wheat that makes a dense, crisp - crusted bread.

Our ancient ancestors grew up in a world of stress and scarcity.

Also, commenting on Paleo diet, I'm not sure just what it is, except that it's a diet of what some people think that our ancient ancestors ate ten thousand or more years ago.

How can we know what was available to our ancient ancestors, especially plant foods, as they might have had plants that no longer exist, and we might have plants that they did not have.

The 8 Safest Natural Sweeteners to Use Sweet foods were a rare delicacy for our ancient ancestors.

Sweet foods were a rare delicacy for our ancient ancestors.

You dismiss the wisdom and knowledge of our ancient ancestors and use faulty anologies.

Our ancient ancestors all breastfed their babies and toddler, so a new mother was always surrounded by a whole tribe of experienced, knowledgable and supportive women.

What about our ancient ancestors?

Clawed forelimbs allow northern seals to eat like their ancient ancestors.

Our ancient ancestors certainly did.

Did our ancient ancestors build to please the ears as well as the eyes?

«Groundwater «pit stops» enabled survival, migration of our ancient ancestors: New study reveals the importance of African groundwater in kick - starting the evolutionary history of humans.»

So the orangutan chromosome setup looks the most like the ancient ancestor revealed by Kim's team, with eight ancient chromosomes intact.

In contrast, the very fact of an ancient ancestor like Boskop, who appears un-apelike and in fact in most ways seems to have had characteristics superior to ours, was destined never to be popular.

Caves in Europe and Russia housed the soil that researchers used to find genetic traces to our ancient ancestors.

You can blame — or thank — your ancient ancestors for what could be a life - saving aversion to scaly serpents.

They stem from the idea that evolution makes minuscule changes over millions of years, so we haven't had enough time to adapt to the modern industrial world — and that we would be healthier and happier if we lived more like our ancient ancestors.