Sentences with phrase «comprehensive evolutionary study»
White and his colleagues note that «surprisingly few» comprehensive evolutionary study systems have been described, although the number is growing.
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A comprehensive and technically sophisticated study published in the May 7 issue of Science, «A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome,» by Max Planck Institute evolutionary anthropologists Richard E. Green, Svante Pääbo and 54 of their colleagues, demonstrates that «between 1 and 4 % of the genomes of people in Eurasia are derived from Neandertals» and that «Neandertals are on average closer to individuals in Eurasia than to individuals in Africa.»
J. David Archibald, an evolutionary biologist at San Diego State University, praised the new study as being the most comprehensive analysis yet into the evolution of placental mammals based on the shapes and forms of fossils.
«This is one of the most comprehensive studies that attempts to date when these evolutionary divergences happened,» says Luis Chiappe, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California, who wasn't involved in the new research.
Jan Janecka, a postdoctoral fellow working with evolutionary genomicist William Murphy at Texas A&M University in College Station, has now jumped into the debate with a two - pronged molecular study, the most comprehensive approach attempted thus far.
But a comprehensive study of the bones of H. floresiensis finds that not only is the species probably older than H. erectus, but it inhabits a completely different limb of our evolutionary tree.