Sentences with phrase «debates about human origins»
«The story that the bonobo can be safely ignored or marginalized from debates about human origins is now off the table,» says de Waal.
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The researchers argue that quantitative and statistical methods provide a better way to settle debates about human origins than the descriptive analyses that have been used in the past.
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Birmingham, U.K. — A provocative new theory about the origin of «mad cow disease» and its human counterpart stirred debate at the annual International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology here yesterday.
«This significantly shifts debates about the origins of art - making and supports ideas that this fundamental human behaviour began with our most ancient ancestors in Africa rather than Europe.
And while the origins of modern human behavior have been widely debated, there has been much less discussion about the evolution of modern human anatomy.
«What surprised me the most about the modern human origins debate when I first started learning about it is how little people really knew about what is going on in Asia,» Bae said.
While questions related to the when and where of humanity's origins remain hotly debated, one matter about our collective genetic makeup is clearer: All humans appear to be hominid hybrids, made up of DNA from different and distinct populations.