Sentences with phrase «early ancestors»

New techniques and very old bones overcome the limits of genome sequencing for prehistoric horses, ancient cave bears, and even our own early ancestors.

Across the Mediterranean Sea (upper left and center) is Europe; far below Egypt is East Africa and sites where remains of early ancestors of humans have been unearthed.

The results, published in the journal Current Biology, identify a key point in the evolutionary transition from soft to hard bodies in early ancestors of arthropods, the group that contains modern insects, crustaceans and spiders.

From early ancestors as late as pioneers and farmers, keeping the home or homestead required strength and constant effort, day in and day out, on top of the physical rigors of childbearing, breastfeeding, and hormonal fluctuation to facilitate it all.

Early ancestors come together: Humanity's roots may lie in single, diverse genus.

Similar in size and weight to a modern human, and with humanlike hands and feet, the new species has a braincase more similar in size to earlier ancestors living two million to four million years ago, as well as shoulders, pelvis, and ribcage more closely resembling earlier hominins than modern humans.

In this artist's rendition of life in the middle Triassic, carnivorous Teleocrater rhadinus, newly identified as a very early ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, feasts on mammallike reptile Cynognathus.

Other early ancestors of the Boykin are reported to be the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, English Springer Spaniel, Cocker Spaniel and the American Water Spaniel.

As for us, humans have junked about 800 genes in the course of our evolution from mammalian and earlier ancestors going back millions of years.

Although many researchers (including Moyà - Solà) place human origins in Africa, Pau may bolster the notion that humans» earlier ancestors actually evolved in Eurasia and migrated to Africa.

Although humans first began to domesticate early ancestors of dogs about thirty thousand years ago, it wasn't until the 1880s that the first flea and tick treatments were developed at about the same time as the rabies vaccine, allowing dogs to move closer to our human packs.

The results, published today (7 May) in the journal Current Biology, identify a key point in the evolutionary transition from soft to hard bodies in early ancestors of arthropods, the group that contains modern insects, crustaceans and spiders.

Early ancestors of humans in Africa interbred with Neandertals about 110,000 years ago, an international group of researchers reports online February 17 in Nature.

Chinook and some of my other early ancestors provided vital transportation for Admiral Byrd's Antarctica expedition.

It was a way to explain incomprehensible forces of nature to our early ancestors, which evolution had given a surplus of imagination from oversized brains, without the discipline to use that brain power wisely.

«This early ancestor possessed primitive teeth and a small brain but it stood upright and walked on two feet.

I have a portrait of an ancestor who lost his land to the Crown because he was a Catholic; there is a tradition of an earlier ancestor who lost his life.

Trav, all the dna within your own body proves that all of your earliest ancestors came from South East Africa... I'm so sorry.

No one has power to alter these heavenly lights, for they serve to display the greatness of their Creator, and as our eyes see them now, so saw them our earliest ancestors, and so shall see them our latest posterity.26

Probably kept our early ancestors alive to be jumpy and always on guard for some cave bear suddenly springing from out of nowhere, but times have changed somewhat.

They took early hominid DNA and they merged it with their own to help evolve our early ancestors into the beings we are today.

This may or may not have been an intentional way to show how our early ancestors would have eaten their food.

Paleo experts took note of our modern - day behavior and thought, if obesity and disease rates are rising as quickly as processed foods are flying off shelves, maybe we should go back to our roots and eat like our early ancestors did?

Generally speaking, the Paleolithic Diet encourages eating foods that our early ancestors would have eaten: meats, organ meats, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds while limiting grains, sugars, processed foods, and dairy.

One of his earliest ancestors had walked all the way from Florida to Mexico City as part of a Spanish treasure - hunting expedition in 1528.

When we think of all the horror stories we've been told about what will happen if we don't follow a laundry list of rules about how to raise our children in today's modern, Western society, you can bet that pretty much none of it applied to our early ancestors (or even other cultures today).

These shared features, the authors say, suggest that it's time to rethink what we thought we knew about dinosaurs» earliest ancestors.

The tale begins with our early ancestors — where they traveled and with whom they consorted.

A set of 5.7 - million - year - old footprints, found on a Greek island, suggest that our earliest ancestors strayed far beyond their supposed African homeland

To survive, our early ancestors had to do several things repeatedly and very well: locate food, escape predators, mate and protect offspring.

It was practiced by some of our earliest ancestors, such as Homo habilis and the even older Australopithecus garhi, who walked on two legs, but whose facial features and brain size were closer to those of apes.

That's the story of paleoanthropology, at least according to Ann Gibbons's book The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Doubleday, $ 26), a deliciously soap - operatic account of efforts to trace human ancestry through the study of fossils.

It suggests communication among our earliest ancestors may be more complex than previously thought, with teaching and perhaps even a primitive proto - language occurring some 1.8 million years ago.

The study is the latest in a series of examinations Bello has made of human remains from a cave in southwestern England that, all together, suggest our early ancestors engaged in complex and unusual eating habits.

C. kunmingensis belongs to a group of animals called fuxianhuiids, and was an early ancestor of modern arthropods — the diverse group that includes insects, spiders and crustaceans.

At once it recalls the experience of our earliest ancestors — some of whom may have created rudimentary paintings on these walls — peering into the light.

Homo erectus — an early ancestor of modern humans — resembled a squat body builder more than a svelte distance runner, a newly unearthed fossil pelvis suggests.

«Tool use fundamentally altered the way our early ancestors interacted with nature, allowing them to eat new types of food and exploit new territories.

Piecing together the planetesimals, the earliest ancestors of the asteroids, hasn't been easy because eons of collisions have broken them apart.

It also suggests that the earliest ancestor of butterflies and moths flew during the day, not at night, as previously thought.

Several competing theories explain when and by what routes our earliest ancestors migrated out of Africa after they evolved there as early as 300,000 years ago.

For one thing, Suddendorf says, the subjects «already have language and have grown up with language,» and so it would be expected that they would learn more effectively when they could talk to each other, which may not have been true for our earliest ancestors.

For over 100 years, scientists have tried to reveal his story, posing theories as to what he looked like, where he came from and what he can tell us about our earliest ancestors.

Life's persistence connects us across time, to the early ancestors of mammals that lurked among the cycad trees of Mongolia some 300 million years ago (see page 44).

In the days of our early ancestors, decisions about the distribution of resources weren't made in courthouses or legislative offices, but through shows of strength.

Our earliest ancestors may have walked on two legs, but their heads were small, their teeth large and their arms long.

We've already transformed most of the biosphere beyond anything our early ancestors could have imagined, clearing, ploughing, burning, building, damming, domesticating, driving to extinction, dousing with chemicals and even changing the climate.