Sentences with phrase «archaic humans as»

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Never, as modern human beings, can we experience the one - possibility consciousness of a primitive or archaic culture in which myth quite simply is the received construction of the world.

Is it not at least archaic, if not hopelessly irrational, to hold that one person, Jesus of Nazareth, born in obscurity two thousand years ago is, as the Second Vatican Council teaches «the goal of human history, he is that point in which the desires of history and civilisation converge.

Before dismissing Augustine as being ancient, his dilemma as being archaic and his solutions as being irrelevant, it is well that we take a close look at what has been happening in secular education and also at the relationship between human / social studies in secular institutions on the one hand and Christian institutions on the other.

«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression is that interbreeding with archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.

The transition from archaic to modern humans might not have occurred in one place in Africa but in several, including southern Africa and northern Africa as recently reported.

Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors — the so - called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins.

Still, additional genetic analyses have typically led researchers to conclude that Homo sapiens arose in Africa and replaced the archaic humans it encountered as it spread out from its birthplace without mingling with them.

That in turn could help determine when humans interbred with archaic hominids on other continents — such as Neandertals in Europe and Denisovans in Asia — whose genes linger in the DNA of some modern people (SN: 6/13/15, p. 11).

«It opens up our ability to ask questions about how Middle Pleistocene hominins lived in this region and it might be a key to understanding the nature of interbreeding and population dispersals across Eurasia with modern humans and archaic populations such as Neanderthals.»

As archaic humans, Neanderthals and other hominin species migrated out of Africa, what followed was a wave of size - biased extinction in mammals on all continents that intensified over time.

Rather, they write in a paper published online in the Journal of Anatomy, it appears the chin's emergence in modern humans arose from simple geometry: As our faces became smaller in our evolution from archaic humans to today — in fact, our faces are roughly 15 percent shorter than Neanderthals» — the chin became a bony prominence, the adapted, pointy emblem at the bottom of our face.

In terms of features from the late archaic / early modern humans found throughout the Old World, the researchers observed the fossils as having a large size that fitted a large brain, and cranial vaults that were lightly built and had modest brow ridges.

But ancient - DNA sequencing is beginning to shed some light on the issue.11 For example, by comparing a human HAR sequence with the HAR sequence of an archaic hominin, researchers can estimate if the HAR mutated before, after, or during the time period of our common ancestor.12 This approach has revealed that the rate at which HAR mutations emerged was slightly higher before we split from Neanderthals and Denisovans.3, 13 As a result, most HAR mutations are millions of years old and shared with these extinct hominins (but not with chimpanzees).

Discovered in Zhirendong, a cave in Guangxi province, the jaw has a classic modern - human appearance, but retains some archaic features of Peking Man, such as a more robust build and a less - protruding chin.

In 1856, three years before the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, a group of miners uncovered human fossils in a limestone cave in the Neander Valley of northern Germany — what would later be named Neanderthal 1, the first specimen to be recognized as belonging to another, archaic species of human.

Here, for the first time, we specifically define cases of immediate adaptive introgression (iAI), in which archaic haplotypes rose to high frequencies in humans as a result of a selective sweep that occurred shortly after the introgression event.

Modern medicine seems to be pretty archaic by working against the immune system as opposed to working in collaboration with animal or human immune systems.

Both Aliens and humans, friend and foe alike, are described as having, «terribly archaic» AI.