Sentences with phrase «human evolution occurs»

Geneticists are starting to have success in warmer places, which is a priority because most of human evolution occurred in Africa.

H. naledi fossils in a nearby cave may be as young as 236,000 years old, raising questions about how human evolution occurred.

Nearly all human evolution occurred during the Pleistocene.

Not exact matches

But Soleri is not waiting passively for this next step in human evolution to occur.

Even though we knowtoday that species occur rapidly following a ass extinction, the opposite of Nye's understanding of science, there remains the oxymoron of rapid, or random mutation evolution Dr. Gould's work in the area of random mutation evolution was very popular until the human genome project proved that Dog is Man's closest genome relatve.

For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).

«We are researching the evolution of today's diseases such as malaria to explain why the human body becomes sick at all and how adaptations occur.»

Human activities could change the pace of evolution, similar to what occurred 66 million years ago when a giant asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, leaving modern birds as their only descendants.

Sequencing of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA allowed comparison between the relative rates of evolution, which suggested that the coalescence, or origin, of the human Y chromosome and mitochondria both occurred approximately 120 thousand years ago.

«This new timeline has significant implications in helping us to understand this period of human evolution — cooked food provides greater energy, and cooking may be linked to the rapid increases in brain size that occurred from 800,000 years ago onwards.

I enjoyed September's «Great Mysteries of Human Evolution» by Carl Zimmer, but I take issue with the statement «Putting a stone ax on the end of a stick to make a spear would have allowed these hominids to become much better hunters, and yet this simple idea apparently never occurred to them.»

In 1859, Charles Darwin announced one of the greatest ideas ever to occur to a human mind: cumulative evolution by natural selection.

The evolution of bone cancer pain in dogs parallels what occurs in humans, with the frequency and intensity of pain increasing over weeks and months.

While this is an attractive idea, an analysis of regulatory element evolution shows that lineage - specific regulatory innovation for development occurred prior to human and mouse divergence [78].

«Genetic recombination is a fundamental process, at the core of reproduction and evolution,» said study author Graham Coop, PhD, post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, «yet we know very little about where it occurs or why there is so much variation among individuals in this important process.»

Hence, though the Pulse Climate Variability hypothesis is an interesting starting point for discussing early human evolution it may to simplistic to capture the whole range of evolutionary forcing occurring in East Africa in the Plio - Pleistocene.

My research examines how these effects occur and whether the timeline of human evolution can generate predictions about when moderators of these effects will emerge (e.g., inter-group aggression, pair - bonding).