Sentences with phrase «first human settlers»

Minuscule diamond fragments found in a sediment layer dating from thousands of years ago are bolstering the theory that a catastrophic comet impact wiped out many forms of life in North America, including what are thought to have been the first human settlers of the continent, the so - called Clovis people.

But if it lived long enough to confront the first human settlers, that might explain why the fossa looms large in local folklore — and why it still terrifies the Malagasy.

New genomic data suggest that the first human settlers on the Scandinavian peninsula followed two distinct migration routes.

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The first settlers of Salem, Hawthorne wrote in «Main - Street,» were «stalwart» men, who strode «sturdily onward,» brave and pious men of «thoughtful strength,» men «who do not merely find, but make their place in the system of human affairs.»

Researchers at the Sainte - Justine University Hospital Center and University of Montreal have discovered that the genomic signature inherited by today's 6 million French Canadians from the first 8,500 French settlers who colonized New France some 400 years ago has gone through an unparalleled change in human history, in a remarkably short timescale.

An international team of researchers including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena now analyzed for the first time, the genomes of the first settlers who lived on the island chains Tonga and Vanuatu 3100 - 2500 years ago.

Keywords: pedagogy, human services, settler colonialism, politics of teaching, twenty - first century