Sentences with phrase «first modern humans»

Published on Jan 15, 2013 Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans — people physically identical to us today — left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age.

So what happened when the first modern humans encountered the Neanderthals?

Program Description Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans — people physically identical to us today — left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age.

The first modern humans arose in Africa about 300,000 years ago.

The origins of Europeans used to seem straightforward: The first modern humans moved into Europe 42,000 to 45,000 years ago, perhaps occasionally meeting the Neandertals whose ancestors had inhabited Europe for at least 400,000 years.

The age and the morphology of Manot suggest that the first modern humans took this route.

It is likely that interbreeding happened already earlier on the way of the first modern humans through the Levant.

Brown suggests that forging tools was part of a «behavioural tool kit» that allowed the first modern humans to conquer the world.

No superhero's origin story is more epic than our own: Some 200,000 years ago, the first modern humans arose in Africa and went on to take over the world.

Drawing a parallel to the first modern humans to leave Africa, Impey casts space exploration and colonization as inevitable for our insatiably curious species.

That, says Theodore Schurr, an anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania, «lends credence to the reemerging hypothesis that the first modern human populations to arrive in North America and then populate the rest of the Americas used a coastal route to actually get there.»

THE mutant gene that causes cystic fibrosis came to Europe with the first modern humans, more than 50 000 years ago, claims an evolutionary biologist.

It is how we know that the earliest hominids walked the earth more than 6 million years ago and how we know the first modern humans lived more than 160,000 years ago.

The first modern humans in Europe were hunter - gatherers who arrived around 40,000 years ago.

Some researchers have posited that the ancestors of the Aborigines were the first modern humans to surge out of Africa, spreading swiftly eastward along the coasts of southern Asia thousands of years before a second wave of migrants populated Eurasia.

WHEN the first modern humans left Africa they were ill - equipped to cope with unfamiliar diseases.

However, most of the relics found by Zilhão date to 50,000 years ago, 10,000 years before the first modern humans arrived.

In 1997, a team of Australian archaeologists, led by the late Mike Morwood, was on the prowl for evidence of the first modern humans to arrive on the continent.

This suggests that the Manot people could be closely related to the first modern humans who later successfully colonized Europe.

Niyazov Bey, a Kazakh Turk living in Kazakhstan, was identified by the Genographic Project as one of the direct descendants of the first modern human settlers in Central Asia.

It's easy to imagine the first modern humans staring up at the heavens in wonder, their eyes and minds dazzled by a beautiful band of light splashed across the night sky, the ever - changing moon so large and bright, and pinpoints of light in every direction.

He assumed that the first modern humans did not interbreed with Neanderthals, as they would have been repelled by the Neanderthal's «extreme hairiness», «ugliness», and «repulsive strangeness».

Some scientists maintain that this latest mass extinction began when the first modern humans began to disperse to different parts of the world around 100,000 years ago, but the rot really set in when they turned their attention to agriculture around 10,000 years ago.