Sentences with phrase «at archaic humans»

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«Archaic human admixture with modern Ho.mo sapiens occurred at least twice in history: with Neanderthals, and with the population to which the Denisova ho.minin belonged.

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.

«We found that interbreeding with archaic humans — the Neanderthals and Denisovans — has influenced the genetic diversity in present - day genomes at three innate immunity genes belonging to the human Toll - like - receptor family,» says Janet Kelso of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Other geneticists at the meeting zeroed in on archaic DNA «deserts,» where living humans have inherited no DNA from Neandertals or other archaic humans.

Pääbo suggests that X Woman may belong to a group of archaic humans who migrated out of Africa at a different time from Neanderthals or modern humans.

«There are certain classes of genes that modern humans inherited from the archaic humans with whom they interbred, which may have helped the modern humans to adapt to the new environments in which they arrived,» says senior author David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

The researchers were searching for archaic DNA sequences in those human genomes at frequencies much higher than would be expected if those genes weren't doing people any good.

Many kinds of archaic humans walked the planet at the same 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.

Published this week in Nature, the findings also hint at when modern humans interacted with other archaic humans.

The DNA data suggest not one but at least two instances of interbreeding between archaic and modern humans, raising the question of whether Homo sapiens at that point was a distinct species (see sidebar).

The fossils included characteristics from late archaic / early modern humans, Middle Pleistocene Eurasians, and western Eurasian Neanderthals, hinting at possible intermixing.

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).

Both of these archaic human cousins lived in the same cave, although at different times in the past.

«Population genetics theory tells us that means a small population size» for those archaic humans, said Montgomery Slatkin, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not convinced of Rogers» results.

In Winters's new work, the spaces of the digital age are mediated by the human gesture, creating hybrid images, at once contemporary and archaic.

At a first gaze, the idea of reinterpretation of earlier movements within the genre of figurative sculpture seems to be the main thread of the exhibition; the «Human Statues» by Frank Benson re-visit the classic models of sculpture with a post-modern attitude, suggestions of an archaic past revive in Schütte's warriors, while a Minimalistic taste gives shape to Georg Herold's haggard creatures.