Sentences with phrase «crucial for human evolution»
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This «identity fusion» may have been crucial for our evolution, allowing groups of unrelated humans to cooperate in dire times.
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A new study concludes that the art of conversation may have arisen early in human evolution, because it made it easier for our ancestors to teach each other how to make stone tools — a skill that was crucial for the spectacular success of our lineage.
When it comes to human evolution, Europe and the Near East are crucial places: Europe has the first cave art, and the Near East has the first sightings of modern humans out of Africa, for example.
A lot of research supports the idea that teaching is crucial for the evolution of culture (New Scientist, 20 November 2010, p 38), but cooperative breeding helps to explain why humans are so particularly good at it compared with the other apes.
A study of how a monetary system can change behavior finds that filthy lucre may have been crucial for the evolution of large human populations.
Such familiarity would have been crucial in designing the forgery, which catered to geologists» desire for confirmation of ideas about human evolution based on a small number of fossil remains, and would have validated Dawson's well - known scientific aspirations.
They're a crucial part of human evolution, and they care for us in ways we never could have imagined, even just a few years ago.