Sentences with phrase «great ape evolution»
The comparison with other sequenced genomes revealed that over the course of great ape evolution, about 90 % of the genome has been influenced by natural selection.
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The discovery came about while researchers were exploring and comparing the accumulation of copy number variants during great ape evolution.
Not exact matches
If there is indeed a soul or purpose for man that is greater than self (animal) evolution would point towards something greater not something less than or limited to the purpose of an ape or a plant.
Although it's not yet clear whether the acquired genes were ultimately beneficial or harmful, the finding strengthens the idea that such cross-species mating played an important role in the evolution of the great apes.
«Great ape genetic diversity catalog frames primate evolution and future conservation.»
The two Univerity of Washington studies, «Great ape genetic diversity and population history,» published in Nature, and «Evolution and diversity of copy number variation in the great ape lineage,» published in Genome Research, are funded by NIH grant HG002385 and support from the Howard Hughes Medical InstiGreat ape genetic diversity and population history,» published in Nature, and «Evolution and diversity of copy number variation in the great ape lineage,» published in Genome Research, are funded by NIH grant HG002385 and support from the Howard Hughes Medical Instigreat ape lineage,» published in Genome Research, are funded by NIH grant HG002385 and support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
The catalog of great ape genetic diversity, the most comprehensive ever, elucidates the evolution and population histories of great apes from Africa and Indonesia.
Analysis of great ape genetic diversity is likely to reveal ways that natural selection, population growth and collapse, geographic isolation and migration, climate and geological changes, and other factors shaped primate evolution.
Mysterious episodes of genetic duplication in our great ape ancestors may have paved the way for human evolution
The results, published in the 28 October issue of Science, will provide a better understanding of the genetic flow that plays a role in the evolution of great apes.
«We know that interbreeding played a role in human evolution, and now we know it was important for the great apes too,» says Hvilsom.
Our knowledge of hominid evolution — that is, when and how humans evolved away from the great ape family tree — has significantly increased in recent years, aided by unearthed fossils from Ethiopia, including the C. abyssinicus, a species of great ape.
To the research team's great surprise, the predictions of the model held up, not just for modern humans, but for over 17 ape and hominin species spread out across millions of years of higher primate evolution and diversification.
Even though the fossil record of human evolution is still patchy, it is much better than that of the great apes.
The famous image of evolution — monkey, ape, hunched proto - hominid, fully evolved and upright modern man — encapsulates the myth as vividly as a cross, a crescent and a seated Buddha encapsulate the great world religions.
Droughts and the glacial pace of the ice ages surely played some role in prehuman evolution, too, though it hasn't been obvious why it affected our ancestors so differently than the other great apes.
How do you square that conclusion with the undeniable facts of evolution and natural selection which have no «agenda» other than the survival and reproduction of animals, and, in our case, of the Great Apes and humans?