Sentences with phrase «human branch of the tree»

Based on this new fossil evidence and analysis, the team suggests that the human branch of the tree (shared with chimpanzees) split away from gorillas about 10 million years ago — at least 2 million years earlier than previously claimed.

Not exact matches

Old World monkeys, apes and hominins — the branch of the ape family tree that includes humans — inherited that ancestor's ability to see red, particularly against a green background.

She even followed cannibalism's environmental connection onto the human branch of the evolutionary tree.

In March he published an analysis of two swine branches of the H1N1 family tree — one of them a Eurasian strain that contributed segments of the novel H1N1 now infecting humans.

Those are the mutations ancestry companies look for when placing a person into one of the 20 «haplogroups,» the major genetic branches of the human family tree.

In fact, he awaits a new, technologically driven stage of evolution that will qualify cyborgs for a branch on the human family tree.

Near the bottom of this succession of rocks is Ardipithecus — not a chimpanzee, and not a human — but from the earliest portion of our branch of the hominid family tree.

Inermorostrum evolved its unusual feeding style just 4 million years after the toothed whale lineage split from the branch of the family tree that includes the ancestors of today's baleen whales such as humpbacks, which filter their food through frayed sheets of keratin, the same material in human fingernails.

Each successive mutation identifies a branching point, right out to the twigs at the tip of the tree, which represent individual humans.

The new tooth also contains DNA unlike that of Neandertals or modern humans, suggesting that Denisovans interbred with an even more mysterious branch of the human family tree — one that is either unknown to science, or known only from fossils without preserved DNA.

«Humans are eating away the richest branches of the fish tree of life,» says Alfaro.

Darwinius and Notharctus, on the other hand, are adapiform primates that are early relatives of living lemurs, the most distant branch of the primate family tree with respect to humans and other anthropoids.

Like Clarke, Berger believes the labels on the tree of human evolution could be wrong because we haven't found all the species, or branches, that make up the tree.

The new study evaluates this issue by measuring and comparing the rates at which teeth and brains have evolved along the different branches of the human evolutionary tree.

The fact that bonobos prefer bullies and humans don't suggests that an aversion to jerks is a fundamental aspect of human behavior that may be unique to our branch of the primate family tree.

«We don't have a tree of human populations with branches for Europeans and Asians and Arabs,» Templeton says.

An analysis of its sequence provided strong evidence that Neanderthals lie on a separate branch of the human family tree and are not our direct ancestors.

The eukaryotic trunk of the tree of life sprouted branches leading to organisms ranging from yeasts to humans.

A Tel Aviv University researcher was part of the team that released findings Thursday showing that the human evolutionary tree has fewer branches than originally thought, based on a 1.8 - million - year - old skull found buried under a medieval Georgian village.

You can think of humans as the very tip of just one branch on that tree called «hominid.»

This was something else — technically, some one else — probably with Neanderthal and Denisovan influence in that same branch of the human family tree.

Studies show that the San carry some of the most divergent (oldest) Y - chromosome haplogroups, specific sub-groups of A and B, the two earliest branches on the human Y - chromosome tree, suggesting they may be descendents of a population ancestral to all modern humans.

These proteins are found on every branch of the evolutionary tree from yeast to humans, and they play crucial roles in controlling the delivery of molecular messages inside cells.

Megafauna like the mastodon, wooly rhinoceros, or the saber - toothed tiger lived on every continent until the Pleistocene epoch, about 125,000 years back, when the human branch of the evolutionary tree spread from Africa to other continents.

The intricate branching patterns of trees have fascinated humans throughout recorded history.

«I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.»

A monstrous creature kills and impales humans on tree branches or other objects (one scene of such an attack is replayed several times).

Back in the wild and wacky 19th century, some scientists held a notion called recapitulation theory, which claimed embryonic development followed the branches of an organism's ancient evolutionary tree, from, say, fish to lizard to dog to human.

Over many years of personal anthropological studies (people watching from cafe windows or park benches), I have observed with complete fascination the human being's ability to learn: People using branches to lift kites from tree - tops, younger people using lighters as beer - bottle openers, people reading beneath trees soaking up words to ponder over, etc... People are very cool.

Detroit: Become Human tries to make every decision matter, yet when glancing upon a tree of branching choices in the pause menu, it's clear many scenarios have only a single conclusion.

Using broken tree branches, wire, Korean hanji paper, stones, human hair, fabric, and rope, his works elevate the objects and interactions that comprise daily life to the level of the mythical.

His latest series of Dendroids, for example, resemble silver tree sculptures, but study many dendritic forms, such as the branching human vascular and digestive systems and neuron structures.

Embracing invisible forces and unorthodox materials such as tree branches, wire, stones, human hair, fabric, and rope, his art elevates the mundane to the level of myth.

Traces of the body are also evoked by Bojan Šarcevic who laces the branches of a tree branch with human hair in an unsettling work (Presence at Night, 2010).

For example, in the book that accompanied her painting Aqueous Flesh (2009), Pundyk reveals that her reference for the human figure was clipped from a newspaper, tree branches from a photo taken out of her family - in - law's New York apartment, facial features from a candid photo of a friend on vacation in Paris, and an abstracted version of two women sourced from an image in a waiting room magazine.

For this Invites exhibition Lyddon has produced a new series of works, linked by the motif of trees in various guises — spreading branches, twisting roots, and dead stumps — which merge and morph into human form.

So they pose gracefully, more environment that person, and you notice the curves of the arresting human form as a comparative component of the natural landscape — the curve of a hip as smooth and durable as a river rock, a limb as slender and sturdy as a tree branch, the body as beautiful and lush of an offering as fruit.

He's now best known, perhaps, for large - scale sculptures of trees in bronze and wood which reveal the similarities between them and the human body — skin becomes bark, limbs branches, the torso the trunk.

The recurring framing of the tree's upper portion, with neither the main trunk nor the end of the highest branches visible, may be (practically speaking) impossible from a human point of view, but it is also, as I see it, absolutely integral to the artist's intentions.

In «Lightning Fields 182,» the visual trace of an electrical charge measuring more than 400,000 volts sweeps across the composition from bottom right to upper left, reading in turns like the textures of a human hand, the upward - reaching leaves of a fern and the stark branches of a tree.

In Solloway v Hampshire County Council (1981) 79 LGR 449, 258 Estates Gazette 858 Lord Justice Dunn said that, in Leakey v National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty [1980] QB 485, [1980] 1 All ER 17, Lord Justice Megaw had placed nuisance by tree roots and branches into the same category as any other nuisance not brought about by human agency, and had imported into tree root cases, as conditions of liability, the requirement of knowledge of the encroachment and the requirement of a reasonably foreseeable risk that the encroachment would cause damage.