Sentences with phrase «driven human evolution»

We have now started to put together a coherent picture of how the changing East African landscape has driven human evolution over the last ten million years.

His suggestion that warfare and violence are «adaptive» behaviors that help drive human evolution quickly attracted fiery criticism.

Not exact matches

The onward drive of «Evolution'therefore, does not lie in material mutation, nor in any fundamental change to human nature and its laws of good and true.

This rapidly evolving game created a new selective pressure that forced «Adam» and «Eve» to use their brains much more, thus forever driving human brain evolution forward.

Religion will cease to be the driving influence of humanity only when 400 millions years of evolution of the primitive parts of the human brain is removed.

Two million years ago we were just your average primate — then we started to have some revolutionary ideas and human evolution went into hyper - drive

In fact, he awaits a new, technologically driven stage of evolution that will qualify cyborgs for a branch on the human family tree.

Human «self - domestication» is a hypothesis that states that among the driving forces of human evolution, humans selected their companions depending on who had a more pro-social behaHuman «self - domestication» is a hypothesis that states that among the driving forces of human evolution, humans selected their companions depending on who had a more pro-social behahuman evolution, humans selected their companions depending on who had a more pro-social behavior.

Experts have long suspected that complex social interaction drove the evolution of large brains in humans.

A growing number of examples show that humans not only contribute to the extinction of species but also drive evolution, and in some cases the emergence of entirely new species.

«Humans artificially drive evolution of new species.»

«The idea that social interaction may have facilitated or led to selection for us to be individually recognizable implies that human social structure has driven the evolution of how we look,» said coauthor Michael Nachman, a population geneticist, professor of integrative biology and director of the UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.

Among scientists studying human evolution, it has been almost universally assumed that the need to make more vitamin D at Northern latitudes drove genetic mutations that reduce production of the pigment melanin, the main determinant of skin tone, according to Elias.

But specifically how human variants of such genes shape our brain in development — and how they drove its evolution — have remained largely mysterious.

«For 15 years, an impressive amount of time and money poured into discovering the genomes of mammals, motivated by our drive to understand human evolution and to look for cures for disease.

Mechanistically distinct pathways of divergent regulatory DNA creation contribute to evolution of human - specific genomic regulatory networks driving phenotypic divergence of Homo sapiens.

«It is essential to understand the dynamics of cultural inheritance at different temporal and spatial scales, to uncover the underlying mechanisms that drive these dynamics, and to shed light on their implications for our current theory of evolution as well as for our interpretation and predictions regarding human behavior.»

«It's a fascinating example of how human activities can drive evolution,» he added.

«Humans don't have that kind of structural coloration, which is an evolution driven adaptation we did not adopt.»

The rapid advance of the human brain, the authors maintain, has not been driven by evolution of protein sequences.

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, presents compelling evidence that stone tool - making helped to drive the evolution of language and teaching among prehistoric human ancestors in the African savanna.

Insights into the tool use difference between chimpanzees and bonobos can help us identify the conditions that drove the evolution of human technology

Applying the model has identified more than 2,000 genes — roughly 10 percent of the human genome — suggesting that selective sweeps were a frequent occurrence that drove the evolution of humans away from their primate ancestors.

This means that insects didn't face the same selective pressure for super smart parents that mammals do, so they didn't get to tap into the positive feedback loop that may have driven the evolution of intelligence in humans.

The project «Preprogrammed versus stochastic clonal evolution of relapsing Acute Myeloid Leukaemia: Impact on disease development and therapeutic responses» will dissect why the subpopulations of primary human blood cancer cells that drive leukaemic relapse resist relevant clinical treatments in vivo.

Not for the capability of humans to dominate and change the planet, considering themselves at the apex of evolution, but for our metacognitive ability to construct past and future scenarios and our drive to link minds together, communicating ideas and forming a «group brain».

From homo habilis and his stone tools to Steve Jobs and his iPad, technological advancements have been a key driving force behind human evolution.

By using finger - / paw - driven touchscreens, S. Jobs made it possible for babies, toddlers, primates, even cats to «use» an iPhone... He has also successfully reversed 2.7 M yrs of human evolution (to tools)-- too easily abandoned in favor of our greasy sausage - like fingers fumbling over 500 + DPI screens

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They share common ancestors with the Pharaoh Hound, and their evolution has been driven by their environment more than by human intervention — they developed in the area surrounding Mount Etna, an active volcano.

A long time after we modern Prometheans disappear, or retreat to a position where we are no longer interfering in the Earth System, the great processes that drive planetary change — orbital forcing, plate tectonics, volcanism, natural evolution and so on — will overwhelm human influence.

Agree, and what can help drive that is a science establishment and a political norm that treats people with respect and does not manipulate our rather weak animal brains (we are genetically very close to all other mammals, who is surprised a dog runs in a pack — then you shouldn't be surprised humans do too)-- of course I truly believe that is beyond us and our current limited evolution, we are just talkin» dogs — so... lets dream on and hope we can get better despite our great organic limitations.