Sentences with phrase «between ancestors»

Sassen's photographs explore a complicated chain of history between the ancestors of the Saramacca and the Netherlands, and reflects on her life - long documentation of the African continent.

New research uses innovative data modelling to predict which species acted as an intermediary between our ancestors and those of chimpanzees to carry HSV2 — the genital herpes virus — across the species barrier.

To place the horse evolutionary history in a chronological context, we estimated the divergence time between the ancestors of the ancient horse population and ancestors of the modern horse populations, as well as the divergence time between the ancestors of Przewalski's horses and domesticated horses.

New research from the University of Cambridge and Oxford Brookes University predicts which species acted as an intermediary between the ancestors of Homo...

Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts By Alexander Langlands With an archaeologist's eye for detail, Langlands goes beyond the glue gun to explore the connection between our ancestors and modern makers.

By sequencing ancient DNA from the fossils of human ancestors, researchers have recently discovered new types of ancient humans and revealed interbreeding between our ancestors and our archaic cousins, including Neandertals.

Researchers say the findings suggest close contact between our ancestors and gorillas.

It is also possible that she was descended from the hybrid spawn of an ancient tryst between her ancestors and Neanderthals.

This is roughly the same level that lurks in the genomes of all of today's non-Africans, owing to ancient trysts between their ancestors and Neanderthals.

On top of that, you don't seem to know the difference between ancestors and descendants.

We are, as are all others, a transitional species, a link between our ancestor species and our descendant species yet to come.

@Colin «Every species is a transitional species between its ancestor and the next species along a temporal continuim..

That potential connection between ancestor spirits and nature is one that is common to many cultures, and it's beautiful to see how that belief or memory might manifest into creative works such as those done by Inoue.

Not exact matches

Their braincase (shown below in blue) also seemed to fall somewhere between what one might expect in an ancient human ancestor and a modern human, albeit slightly more similar to those of our archaic ancestors.

Applicants need to prove that they are the offspring of present or former Chinese citizens, and there is no limit to the number of generations in between the applicant and his ancestor.

Similarly the enormous skeletal changes between upright man and his buckled - over simian ancestor have to be explained.

Given the choice between the canon of scripture and modern principles of interpretation, I have no question where to camp, but I am, to a large degree, challenged by what looks like a major disconnect between modern scholarly discipline and the understanding of our ancestors in the faith.

The single cell organism has an ancestor who probably came to earth frozen ice attached to a meteor that was blown off a distant plant due to some sort of plantary collision between a comet and a planet or two planets, or even a large meter collision... Evolution does not require that you believe to exist, it simply exists.

This is particularly relevant to the genetic relationships between humans and our ancestors.

Lost within a constantly shifting boundary between knowledge and faith, the author proposes a flexibility which accommodates reverence in the evolving God of our ancestors and humility before the Power which we infer lies behind Him whom we reverence.

We can track most species to a common ancestor species» = > ah, but that fact does nt differentiate between supernatural creation of major life forms using genetic mutation as a vehicle, vs an entirely naturalistic process that occurs randomly.

George Clooney may want to look into some sort of police protection from whoever among ancestry.com's employees was well - versed enough in his ancestors to notice similarities between him and Abraham Lincoln.

They do seem to be genetically quite distinctive in many ways, on the other hand there is compelling if disputed evidence of interbreeding between them and the ancestors of modern populations in Europe.

I marveled at a chart that showed a diagram of the tree of life, where relationships between different mammalian species were figured out solely by comparison of their DNA sequences, providing powerful support for Darwin's idea of descent from a common ancestor with natural selection operating on randomly occurring variations.

Last Sept. 18, when Hurricane Fifi came bellowing up the channel between the Bay Islands and the mainland with winds of 120 to 140 mph, the Roatànians simply rode out the storm as their ancestors have been doing since the days of Morgan.

Yoshi told me that there was no reason to draw hard and fast lines between Buddhism and Shintoism, because most Japanese people practice some mix of the two, with a dose of ancestor worship mixed in.

«Breastfeeding Older Children» by Ann Sinnott has a priceless chapter (actually, the whole book is amazing) about the relationship between sustained breastfeeding and our ancestors» natural child spacing.

Ironically, through their influence on Kant, they are one of the ancestors of Rawls» idea of the overlapping consensus, which, to mix Rawls» and Rousseau's terms, allows for people to be forced to be free from within their own comprehensive doctrines, and so of the liberalism Pettit insistently claims can not make proper sense of the relation between law and freedom.

«Our study revealed an unexplained correlation between the happiness today of some nations and the observed happiness of Americans whose ancestors came from these nations,» says Professor Oswald.

Between these two drives, our ancestors were able to distract from their own self - impermanence, allowing them to cope with the anxiety and thus minimize its potential negative impact on reproductive success.»

Studies of DNA mutation rates suggest that apes and Old World monkeys first evolved from their shared common ancestor in the late Oligocene, between 25 and 30 million years ago.

The researchers conclude «The correlation between lineage specific adaptations and ability to restrict viruses endemic to the same hosts supports the hypothesis that lentiviruses closely related to modern SIVs were present in Africa and infecting the ancestors of cercopithecine primates as far back as 16 million years ago, and provides insight into the evolution of TRIM5 specificity.»

By mapping persistent springs across the African landscape, the researchers have been able to model how our ancestors may have moved between water sources at different times and how this impacted their ability to traverse the landscape as the climate changed.

The resemblance between archaea and eukaryote DNA wrapping means that the first organism that used this storage scheme was an ancestor of both modern eukaryotes and archaea, the researchers conclude.

«The potential for mirror self - recognition evolved between 18 and 14 million years ago in the shared ancestor of hominids... We do not know what this creature looked like, but it is likely to have known what it looked like.»

So there's a discontinuity between the dark - dwelling, food - gathering ancestor and the descendants that feed themselves photosynthetically.

Ancient genomes show definitively that our ancestors not only met, but mated with Neanderthals — multiple times — between 40,000 and 100,000 years ago.

Boyd also noted that «congruence between the evolutionary trees of lice and symbiotic bacteria can be traced to 20 - 25 mya when the lice parasitizing monkeys diverged from a common ancestor of hominid lice.»

«It shows that the relationship between ticks and birds is an ancient one: It was present in the ancestors of both lineages.»

Fossil records show that ancestors of the giant pandas swapped meat for bamboo between 7 and 2 million years ago.

DNA evidence identifies the pet cat's ancestor as the Arabian wildcat Felis silvestris lybica, and places its origins somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago in the Middle East.

Sometime between three million and two million years ago, perhaps on a primeval savanna in Africa, our ancestors became recognizably human.

The relationships between the various cancerous cells from a single person can be plotted out in much the same way as evolutionary biologists plot relationships between species: by drawing phylogenetic trees, branching diagrams that trace «descendants» back to a common ancestor.

Recent genomic analyses have «flip - flopped» between whether sponges or comb jellies are our deepest ancestors, leading experts to suggest available data might not have the power to resolve this specific problem.

To test this hypothesis, an international team led by evolutionary biologist Philipp Khaitovich of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences in China and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, set out to see how many brain - related genes implicated in schizophrenia underwent positive natural selection since humans and chimpanzees diverged from a common ancestor between 5 million and 7 million years ago.

This precision squeeze between thumb and fingers is uniquely human and a legacy from our flint - wielding ancestors.

However, the demographic boom the ancestors of the Bantus dates back to between 7,000 to 10,000 years ago, which might call into question the impact of agriculture, which emerged more than 2,000 years later.

Based on the mutation rate and assuming an average of 7 years between each generation, Wallner estimates the most recent common ancestor to 18 of the 21 modern breeds lived about 700 years ago.

Archaeologists working on the eastern coast of England have found a series of footprints that were made by human ancestors sometime between one million and 780,000 years ago.

The researchers were trying to find pairs of groups with a common ancestor, in which one group engaged in conflict between the sexes, while the other didn't.