Sentences with phrase «at human migration»

It can even be useful for archaeologists who look at human migration routes, and are interested to see how the European environment developed over the last 20 000 years.»

Expect many more Mozambique - like [now Egypt - like] situations to play out, along with a resulting increased desire and attempt at human migrations.

Not exact matches

«If climate were causing this, we would expect to see these extinction events either sometimes (diverging from) human migration across the globe or always lining up with clear climate events in the record,» said Lyons, assistant professor of biology at Nebraska.

The report from a team of scientists at Vanderbilt University is the first part in a wide - ranging, $ 7.5 million analysis of environmental stress and human migration scenarios in the low - lying South Asian nation.

Food shortage, drought, migration and human security are issues in a society that can later unfold to big issues between states, Slaughter said at the event.

Researchers were able to determine the genome of stomach bacteria that infected the famous Iceman at the time of his death, in the process giving us clues about ancient human migrations.

Al Wusta's ancient human fossil — combined with comparably ancient stone tools found at other Arabian Peninsula sites (SN: 4/4/15, p. 16)-- challenges the view that humans left Africa in one or a few major migrations, says paleoanthropologist María Martinόn - Torres.

«We know that there are likely to have been at least two admixture events into the ancestors of present - day people — the shared event early during modern human migration out of Africa, and a second event into the ancestors of present - day Asians,» says Kelso.

Several dating techniques applied to archaeological materials and the fossil itself suggest the jawbone is between 175,000 - 200,000 years old, pushing back the modern human migration out of Africa by at least 50,000 years.

The region of the Middle East represents a major corridor for hominin migrations during the Pleistocene and has been occupied at different times by both modern humans and Neandertals.

At the Natural History Museum in London, for example, Chris Stringer, an expert on modern human origins, continues to lean toward a terrestrial migration route out of Africa.

Should this happen, the H. erectus idea would go down the drain, and we would be looking at a possibility of another, yet unknown, migration of humans out of Africa perhaps as early as 2 million years ago.

Steele, who studies how food sources and environmental change influenced human evolution and migration, was part of the international research team that began excavating at the site in 2004.

At a meeting on human origins, held this month in Gibraltar, bones in a Spanish cave and stone tools in Asia sparked controversial new ideas about human evolution and migration.

By combining genetic data, ancestry information, and electronic health records, scientists are able to identify neighborhood - level patterns of migration in the New York City area, according to research presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

«It's very interesting work that should help us fill in the picture of how human migration is tied to the dissemination of leprosy,» says Daniel Hartl, a population geneticist at Harvard University.

At the dawn of human history, long migrations were not for weaklings.

BETHESDA, MD — By combining genetic data, ancestry information, and electronic health records, scientists are able to identify neighborhood - level patterns of migration in the New York City area, according to research presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

Our collaborative influenza projects: 1) characterizing the temporal and spatial evolutionary dynamics of the IAV and IBV circulating globally in humans and wild birds, 2) identifying the IAV genotypes circulating in pigs at county fairs (swine - human interface) to determine if fairs produce novel reassortants or enable zoonosis / reverse zoonosis, 3) determining if specific internal gene segment constellations enhance viral fitness, 4) detecting epistatic interactions between gene segments, and 5) assessing the impact of inter-hemispheric migration of viruses / gene segments.

A comprehensive look at the genomes of the human bones of 51 people reveals otherwise - there was a wave of complex migrations, beginning with the Aurignacians followed by Gravettians and Magdalenians.

Older traces of modern humans previously discovered outside Africa, such as the roughly 100,000 - year - old remains from the Skhul and Qafzeh caves in Israel, were discarded by scientists as evidence of unsuccessful efforts at wider migration.

A new study, looking at the sex - specifically inherited X chromosome of prehistoric human remains, shows that hardly any women took part in the extensive migration from the Pontic - Caspian Steppe approximately 5,000 years ago.

In 2009, two German scientists looked at whether the migration of substances from plastic packaging material into foodstuffs contributes to human exposure to man - made hormones.

Actor - producer Gael Garcia Bernal takes a strikingly complex look at the timely issue of human migration from Central America to the United States, which is rarely depicted with such honest humanity.

Thus, at both national and European level, detention centres as a part of border control or return programs are much more related to migration policy based on migration flows» management than to protection or care for humans.

The included middle overlaps the subject (migrants) and the object (migration), is more than the sum of causes (external debt), and effects (internal poverty), and thus the included middle is always at a superior reality level, almost always at a human reality level, which is kindness, and the included middle of the migration phenomenon is no exception.

The first whole - genome analyses of ancient human DNA from Southeast Asia reveal that there were at least three major waves of human migration into the region over the last 50,000 years.

Final Assessment: Written, digital, or photographic policy brief in which the students discuss the ethics, problems, and solutions of human migration, which is housed on a class wiki and could be shared at a symposium on migration.

«The migration of human food choices to pet food and treats is continuing, and as people age, learn more about nutrition and alter the choices they make, those same decisions are being made for their pets at the same time,» says DeLorenzo.

Filmed on location in the ravishing and remote Guangxi province and at the famous Shanghai Film Studios and various sites around Shanghai, TEN THOUSAND WAVES combines fact, fiction and film essay genres against a background of Chinese history, legend and landscape to create a meditation on global human migrations.

Filmmaker Raymond Depardon and eminent philosopher Paul Virilio discuss the relationship between ideas of homeland and rootedness, at a time when human migration has reached an unprecedented scale.

«For this original performance, Jonah Bokaer uses movement to explore the timely subject of human migration around the Mediterranean Basin, a narrative of personal significance to the artist, who is of Tunisian heritage,» said Andrea Grover, Century Arts Foundation Curator of Special Projects at the Parrish, and curator of Platform.

Indian artist Girjesh Kumar Singh's Laaga Chunari mein daag (Look at you) assembles a compendium of human faces sculpted out of broken bricks from destroyed buildings, incorporating an elegy to the impermanence of the idea of home and an inevitable metaphor for the tragedy of today's mass migration.

An interdisciplinary scholar, Jennifer's research interests and expertise are situated at the intersections of gender, sexuality, feminism, technology, law, and migration and she has lectured widely and published articles and a book on the laws, policies, and technologies designed to respond to human trafficking and sex work in the United States.

She learned that the native population of crows circulates between Syracuse and nearby Auburn, NY; and that this migration is partly in response to harassment and, at times, state - sanctioned violence at the hands of a human population who view them as a nuisance.

Skyscrapers, power transmission lines, vehicles and other existing human artifacts / activities are much more lethal to birds than are wind turbines — at least, since small turbines sited on migration routes have become a thing of the past.

Coming at a time in which migration and asylum are topics often used to manipulate the political opinion of the electorate both in Europe and in the world, the opinion could serve as a wake - up call as it recalibrates the EU's migration and asylum policy on the fundamental values it is constructed on: respect for human rights and obligations stemming from international treaties.

He currently teaches human rights and migration law at VU University.