Sentences with phrase «evolution of modern humans»
«Our data show this process was ongoing two and a half million years ago, which allows us to consider a very drawn - out and gradual evolution of the modern human capacity for language and suggests simple «proto - languages» might be older than we previously thought,» Morgan added.
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How do Adam and Eve relate to what we have learned about the evolution of modern humans from Australopithecus afarensis and Homo habilis?
What that means, she says, is «these groups of hominid species were having impacts on a continental scale before the evolution of modern humans.»
Their conclusion: «We suggest that both the out - of - Africa and the multiregional models are too simple to explain the evolution of modern humans.»
The evolution of modern human brain shape.
Clip 3: Stringer and Pääbo on genes and gene mutations that may have contributed to the evolution of modern humans.
«In my view, what it does is to continue to make it more feasible that North Africa had a role to play in the evolution of modern humans.»
Among the remaining 15 regions, the team identified genes involved in metabolism and cognitive and cranial development, which suggests that aspects of these processes may have been functionally important for the evolution of modern humans.
According to this view, archaic humans were not replaced by anatomically modern humans, but rather, gene flow between Africa, Europe, and Asia, led to the evolution of modern humans from local populations.
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.
A project exploring the role of East Africa in the evolution of modern humans has amassed the largest and most diverse collection of prehistoric bone harpoons ever assembled from the area.
This helps open the door to a functional dissection of the role of gene regulation during the evolution of modern humans.»
The recent discovery of a 2.8 million year - old fossilized jawbone in Ethiopia is helping scientists clear up a clouded period in the evolution of modern humans.
UNLV anthropologist Brian Villmoare helped lead an international research team that discovered a 2.8 million - year - old fossilized jawbone in Ethiopia, filling a particularly elusive period gap in the evolution of modern humans.
Research about the evolution of modern humans has historically focused on the fossil records of Europe and Africa as well as the Levantine corridor connecting them.