Sentences with phrase «for ancient hominin»

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That's why the most significant applications for ZooMS may be to identify fragmentary fossils and to learn more about ancient hominins» environments — especially the ones they created.

Harnessing fire for light, warmth, and cooking was a key event in hominin prehistory — but the smoke could have been disastrous for Neandertals and other ancient hominins in terms of survival and reproduction, New Scientist reports.

«This new work is important because for the first time it unambiguously demonstrates a third interbreeding [of modern with ancient hominins],» says David Reich of Harvard Medical School in Boston.

These findings provide independent evidence for large body - size individuals among hominins as ancient as 3.66 Ma.

We know, from reconstructions of ancient climate and geography that it certainly would have been possible for hominins to emerge from Africa as far back as 3m years ago.

«While the precise implications of the CI eruption for cultures and livelihoods are best understood in the context of archaeological data sets,» write Black and colleagues, the results of their study quantitatively describe the magnitude and distribution of the volcanic cooling and acid deposition that ancient hominin communities experienced coincident with the final decline of the Neanderthals.

Matthias Meyer analyzes ancient samples in a clean lab at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Meyer (left) and Juan Luis Arsuaga of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid discuss the unique characteristics of the hominin fossils found at Sima de los Huesos; Bones are ground into a fine powder before isolating and extracting the DNA in the sample.

«For me personally, I think Africa is still a strong contender for the split between chimpanzees, bonobos and whatever ends up with us, ancient hominins, but they are certainly putting forward a case in these two papers that is well worth archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, experts in the field, looking again at the record and thinking of if the African story does still stack up.&raqFor me personally, I think Africa is still a strong contender for the split between chimpanzees, bonobos and whatever ends up with us, ancient hominins, but they are certainly putting forward a case in these two papers that is well worth archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, experts in the field, looking again at the record and thinking of if the African story does still stack up.&raqfor the split between chimpanzees, bonobos and whatever ends up with us, ancient hominins, but they are certainly putting forward a case in these two papers that is well worth archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, experts in the field, looking again at the record and thinking of if the African story does still stack up.»

The «Cradle of Humankind» — a Unesco World Heritage Site located approximately 30 miles north of Johannesburg, South Africa — is famous for its rich and diverse deposits of ancient hominin fossils.

That's what scientists who study ancient humans will likely be doing following the revelation of a new technique that enables the recovery of hominin DNA directly from sediments without the need for fossils.

Scientists have identified the hominin species responsible for passing genital herpes to our ancient human ancestors.

But ancient - DNA sequencing is beginning to shed some light on the issue.11 For example, by comparing a human HAR sequence with the HAR sequence of an archaic hominin, researchers can estimate if the HAR mutated before, after, or during the time period of our common ancestor.12 This approach has revealed that the rate at which HAR mutations emerged was slightly higher before we split from Neanderthals and Denisovans.3, 13 As a result, most HAR mutations are millions of years old and shared with these extinct hominins (but not with chimpanzees).

While ancient fossils from hominins are not yet available for glycan analysis, this proof - of - concept study, published September 11, 2017 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may set the stage for unprecedented explorations of human origins and diet.