Sentences with phrase «how recent human history»

«This is a dramatic example of how recent human history has profoundly shaped patterns of genetic variation,» said Joshua Akey,...

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At a recent conference on the topic, organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, presentation after presentation highlighted how prehistoric people burned the forest, cleared it, farmed it, nurtured certain of its tree species, and even built cities in it, leaving lasting, if subtle, marks.
How do you house, feed and care for the millions of traumatised people who make up the biggest human migration in recent history?
It's interesting to think about how this kind of true love is a relatively recent concept in human history.
The authors explain how scientists piece together the Earth's «climate history» from tree rings, mud cores, ice cores, and other sources; how this history compares with recent climate patterns; and how greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide - much of it human - made - are impacting climate.
How is it that the conclusions of climate scientists can be called into question as a result of supposedly dubious statistical techniques, but the long history of nonsense from the skeptics, (such as the Robinson et al paper that accompanied the politically motivated Oregon Petition, the corporate funded propaganda campaigns of the Global Climate Coalition, and the recent urban myth that Martian «global warming» disproves a human influence on earthly climate) tells us nothing about the integrity of the skeptic theory of climate?
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