Sentences with phrase «for human evolution»

What is it that makes us human and what genetic changes have been crucial for human evolution?

These considerations add strength to the argument that intermittent fasting is good for human evolution and that our bodies actually perform better as a result of it.

But why aren't there tons of skeletal remains with the slight species changes that is required for human evolution from a monkey (or ultimately a fish).

The implications of using hormonal birth control for human evolution.

«But this was not always the case,» explains Professor Dr. Madelaine Böhme, director of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) at the University of Tübingen, who continues, «Our most recent study shows that the number of amphibian and reptile species used to be much higher in the course of geological history.»

«In terms of what fire means for human evolution, it's absolutely critical,» says Chazan.

Genetic evidence offers impressive support for human evolution and also strongly suggests that our ancestral population has never been smaller than about 10,000, «Mitochondrial Eve» and «Y - chromosome Adam» notwithstanding.

Trinkaus stresses that revising the timeline for human evolution isn't the same as starting from scratch: «The differences are of refinement, not in the basic story.»

It came from a continent few thought was key for human evolution: Africa.

Mysterious episodes of genetic duplication in our great ape ancestors may have paved the way for human evolution

PARIS — He may be called Little Foot, but for human evolution researchers he's a big deal: His is the most complete skeleton known of an early member of the human lineage.

This is a crucial window for human evolution, with the earliest claimed stone tools, found in neighboring Kenya, dating to 3.3 million years ago.

The most profound period for human evolution occurs at about 1.8 million years ago, a period which records the highest diversity of hominin species, including the appearance of Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus with a substantially larger brain capacity of 900cm3, and the first major dispersal of our ancient human ancesters out of East Africa into Eurasia.

Herculano - Houzel, S. & Kaas, J. H. Gorilla and orangutan brains conform to the primate cellular scaling rules: implications for human evolution.

In this standard view of human evolution, H. erectus first evolved there more than 2 million years ago (see «Two routes for human evolution»).

CRISPR has been touted as the next step for human evolution, but a new paper may cast doubt on its effectiveness.

Dr. Fisher is a biological anthropologist, a research professor, and a member of the Center for Human Evolution Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University.

Fossil evidence for human evolution will never be complete, as fossils themselves are rare geologic occurrences.

«The Cave Bear is a very different story,» says Professor Dr. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) at the University of Tübingen, and he continues to explain, «According to our newest findings, these extinct relatives of the Brown Bear lived on a strictly vegan diet.»

Dr. Mark Grabowski from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen together with his colleague Professor William L. Jungers from the University of Stony Brook, New York, break new ground in assessing the size and inferring the way of life of this unknown creature and its ancestors.

Human Breastfeeding is Not Automatic: Why That's So and What it Means For Human Evolution.

@blue: actually there is plenty of evidence for human evolution (in the form of fossils, genetics, geology, you name it).

The study resulted from a collaboration that developed when Gómez - Robles spent a semester at IU studying with Polly while she was a graduate student at the National Research Centre for Human Evolution and at the University of Granada, both in Spain.

«Under geological aspects, the small number of so few large animal species presents an anomaly,» explains Professor Dr. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, and he continues, «The most prominent example of prehistoric giants is, of course, the dinosaurs.»

Scientists of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment and the University of Tübingen have discovered what may well be the oldest known case of Leukemia.

«However, except alveolar inflammation and dental caries, the «individual G61» was not affected by any of these diseases — a female skeleton from the Neolithic graveyard of Stuttgart - Mühlhausen,» says Dr. Heike Scherf of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen.

For human evolution to proceed, explains Hochberg, favourable mutations must be expressed and passed on to the next generation.

Professors Hervé Bocherens and Johannes Krause of Tübingen's Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, along with Cosimo Posth and Christoph Wissing, also of the University of Tübingen, took part in the investigations.

«Unfortunately, there are very few fossil finds of Gigantopithecus — only a few large teeth and bones from the lower mandible are known,» explains Prof. Dr. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) at the University of Tübingen, and he continues, «But now, we were able to shed a little light on the obscure history of this primate.»

Scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment in Tübingen and from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt examined the demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus.

Since 2008, an international research team led by Prof. Dr. Madelaine Böhme from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) of the University of Tübingen has been studying prehistoric ecosystems and fossils in Vietnam.

During excavations in the open lignite - mining pit Na Duong in Vietnam, a joint team from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment Tübingen discovered the world's oldest bighead carp.

«The proportion of plants in the diet of the anatomically modern humans from Buran - Kaya III was significantly higher than in comparable Neanderthal finds — mammoths, on the other hand, appear to have been one of the primary sources of meat in both species,» said lead author Dr. Dorothée Drucker, a biogeologist at the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment.

«Anatomically modern humans colonized Europe around 45,000 - 43,000 years ago, replacing Neanderthals approximately 3,000 years later, with potential cultural and biological interactions between these two human groups,» said Professor Hervé Bocherens, a biogeologist at the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and lead author of a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.

«Sloths already occurred 10,000 years ago, for example the species Megatherium,» explains Professor Dr. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen.

Professor Christopher Miller of Tübingen University and the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) argues: «The findings from Schöningen suggest that archaic humans may have been able to survive in the Ice Age landscape of northern Europe without being able to make and control fire.»

In a small teaching resource booklet, which to my knowledge is his latest written opinion on the matter (Oxnard, 1991:30 - 31), he first gives the basic data on australopithecine postcranial anatomy, then discusses possible functional interpretations, and finally comes to what it means for human evolution.

Parker's book consists of an enormous amount of misdirection, and evasion of most of the best evidence for human evolution.

Brown has made no attempt to address the strongest evidence for human evolution.

Not only are these fossils entirely consistent with evolutionary theory, their transitional nature makes them strong evidence for human evolution, and a major problem for creationists, not the other way around.

Whereas a few of the creationists» criticisms of the fossil evidence for human evolution are technically correct — as in the case of Hesperopithecus — they are often trivial.