Sentences with phrase «early human evolution»

«This discovery challenges the established narrative of early human evolution head - on and is likely to generate a lot of debate.

It underscores the importance of developing large brains in early human evolution, Simpson says.

In their extreme focus on early human evolution in Africa, scientists may have missed major clues about our ancestry still buried in other parts of the world.

This savanna in Tanzania is typical of the kind of landscape that helped shape early human evolution.

However early human evolution played out, later mixing and mingling of populations had a big genetic impact.

These findings suggest that early human evolution involved many experiments «on different ways to be bipedal,» Harcourt - Smith said.

Hence, though the Pulse Climate Variability hypothesis is an interesting starting point for discussing early human evolution it may to simplistic to capture the whole range of evolutionary forcing occurring in East Africa in the Plio - Pleistocene.

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The mosaic anatomy of Australopithecus sediba raises serious questions about our understanding of early human evolution.

Funding: This research was supported by a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award for work on early human evolution (MM) and a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (SS).

In 2014 the Museum hosted a Symposium on Human Origins, inviting an international cadre of scientists to demonstrate and debate the latest findings in early human evolution.

They hunted in sediments that were the right age — 2.58 million to 2.84 million years old — and in an epicenter of early human evolution.

Newly discovered human - like footprints from Crete may put the established narrative of early human evolution to the test.

Early human evolution is characterised by pulsed speciation and dispersal events that can not be explained fully by global or continental paleoclimate records.