Sentences with phrase «early human populations»

Animal populations crashed — and likely early human populations as well.

In fact, early human populations with much less advanced technologies had far larger individual land footprints than societies have today.

Ash Parton and colleagues fall into the second camp, writing, «The dispersal of early human populations out of Africa is dynamically linked with the changing climate and environmental conditions of Arabia.

The study also uncovers several other major findings on early human populations.

Previous research suggests our ability to cooperate and exhibit empathy — both thought to be critical to human success — relied in part on the large brains of our hominin ancestors, relative to body size; and that selection against aggression within early human populations allowed us to thrive.

Shennan adapted Henrich's Tasmanian model to much earlier human populations.

Evidence from the Al Sibetah alluvial fan sequence indicates that during insolation maxima, increased monsoon rainfall led to the widespread activation of drainage systems and grassland development throughout regions that were important for the dispersal of early human populations.

Other archeological and fossil evidence, Cooke says, suggests the earliest human populations in Jamaica were foragers who lived off of available local resources, together with some cultivation of native island and mainland plants.

The development of modernity in early human populations has been linked to pulsed phases of technological and behavioural innovation within the Middle Stone Age of South Africa.