Sentences with phrase «extinct early humans»

In fact, plenty of «our» DNA has foreign origins — from extinct early humans to viruses — and can have both good and bad effects on health.

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Apr. 8, 2013 — At some point, scientists may be able to bring back extinct animals, and perhaps early humans, raising questions of ethics and environmental disruption.

A member of the now - extinct hominid species Homo erectus engraved a geometric design on a sea shell nearly half a million years ago, long before the earliest evidence of comparable etchings made by modern humans, researchers say.

Ice Age Immigrants (Eurasia 7,000 - 45,000 years ago) aDNA from 51 individuals reveals the earliest modern humans to reach Europe went extinct; those arriving in subsequent waves, starting 37,000 years ago, left descendants who remain to this day.

He was expecting to find the remains of an early modern human — Neanderthals were thought to be long extinct by that time — but the boy's skeleton was different.

More specifically the scientists provide the first genetic evidence of a scenario in which early modern humans left the African continent and mixed with archaic (now - extinct) members of the human family prior to the migration «out of Africa» of the ancestors of present - day non-Africans, less than 65,000 years ago.

The earliest humans, Homo sapiens, evolved with less muscle bulk when compared to the more muscular Neanderthals who eventually became extinct.