Sentences with phrase «extinct hominids»

People from Melanesia, a region in the South Pacific encompassing Papua New Guinea and surrounding islands, may carry genetic evidence of a previously unknown extinct hominid species, Ryan Bohlender reported October 20 at the annual meeting of the American Society of...

People from Melanesia, a region in the South Pacific encompassing Papua New Guinea and surrounding islands, may carry genetic evidence of a previously unknown extinct hominid species, Ryan Bohlender reported October 20 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.

Still, Jakobsson says he wouldn't be surprised if other groups of extinct hominids mixed with humans.

«Within human head and body lice there are distinct clades identified by their mitochondrial haplotypes; potentially a result of modern and extinct hominids exchanging lice.

To learn more about the evolution of the «power squeeze» — the grip we use to hold a hammer — University of Kent anthropologist Matt Skinner compared hand and wrist bones from living and extinct hominids using 3 - D X-ray technology.

The Lahn group concluded that the most likely scenario was interbreeding between prehistoric modern humans and a now extinct hominid that carried haplogroup D — most likely Neandertals.

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.

New research suggests that the DNA may not come from Neandertals or Denisovans, but from a third, previously unknown extinct hominid.

Furthermore, as modern genetic sequencing has revealed for H. neanderthalensis, their unique and distinct genomes also indicate these extinct hominids were absolutely not modern H. sapiens.

Evolutionary geneticist Liran Carmel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and colleagues found that the extinct hominids had lower levels of activity in a group of genes called the HOXD cluster, which governs limb growth.

Homo ergaster («working man») is an extinct hominid species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which lived throughout eastern and southern Africa between 1.9 to 1.4 million years ago with the advent of the lower Pleistocene and the cooling of the global climate.

Now researchers say that DNA inherited from these extinct hominids may have fortified the modern immune system.

Homo erectus, a long - extinct hominid species, may have enjoyed peaches much like those we eat today.

Analysis of a pigmentation gene in Neandertals suggests that the extinct hominids had humanlike skin color patterns

A team of scientists, primarily from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, made the discovery during efforts to reconstruct a full genome of the extinct hominid.

In fact, it may be from another extinct hominid.