Sentences with phrase «evolutionary significance of this find»
However, because of the nature of the chamber sediments and the lack of other animal remains at the site, the researchers have not yet been able to nail down the exact age of these fossils, without which «there's no way we can judge the evolutionary significance of this find,» Rick Potts, director of the human origins program at the Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Museum, who was not involved in the discovery, told the Associated Press.
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But the evolutionary point of our self - consciousness must be finding solace or significance in the inevitability of replacement.
«The main significance is this finding of continuity over about 7000 years,» says Mark Stoneking of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who wasn't involved with the work.
«Our suggestion is that the phenomenon has an evolutionary significance, because many of the tandem repeats are found inside DNA sequences that encode the structure of proteins.
These findings thus contradict the hypothesis of the well - known cognition scientist Steven Pinker, who claims that music may just be «auditory cheesecake» that is to say it is a delicious dessert but has no significance from an evolutionary perspective and is no more than just a by - product of language.