Sentences with phrase «human gene pool»

The data suggest that around 3500 B.C. — roughly the same time that many linguists place the origin of PIE and that archaeologists date horse domestication — Yamnaya genes replaced about 75 percent of the existing human gene pool in Europe.

A recent study by Katerina Harvati of New York University that compares the skull morphology of Neanderthals and modern humans suggests, however, that Neanderthals did not make a significant contribution to the modern human gene pool.

To prevent you further contaminating the human gene pool.

The unprofessional and unethical means by which the procedure was tested, the unknown long - term medical effects on women of the drugs involved, and the extreme dangers to the human gene pool posed by partially completed medical abortions all suggest a strong societal interest in banning the «abortion cocktail.»

The human gene pool is full of behavioral urges that may or may not be worthy of expression.

I think the greatest irony is that the human gene pool will ultimately benefit far more from intermingling different traits than trying to preserve what is viewed as «pure».

These percentages show that history, and not just natural selection, has a big effect on the human gene pool — and that conquerors tend to spread their Y chromosomes.

Before we make permanent changes to the human gene pool, we should exercise considerable caution,» said Lander, who was on the summit's organizing committee.

The empire eventually fragmented, but the Mongols» vast geographic reach and their ideas — an international postal system, organized agriculture research and meritocracy - based civil service among other things — shaped national borders, languages, cultures and human gene pools in ways that resound today.

He says that if air pollution is adding harmful mutations to the human gene pool, «in the long run for society, the expenses are huge.»

Therefore, cloning should never be allowed to become so common that it reduces the overall diversity in the human gene pool.

«Recent increases in chronic diseases like childhood asthma and autism can not be due to major shifts in the human gene pool,» says physician and geneticist Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute.

In Eric Lander's lab at the Broad Institute, she scanned the entire human genome to figure out which genes have changed within the last 10,000 years and which have spread rapidly in the human gene pool due to natural selection.

The study, whose first author is the quantitative biologist Ivan Iossifov, a CSHL assistant professor and on faculty at the New York Genome Center, finds that «autism genes» - i.e., those that, when mutated, may contribute to an ASD diagnosis - tend to have fewer mutations than most genes in the human gene pool.

Why would I care whether the gene copy is in the chimp gene pool or the human gene pool if all that matters is how many copies of a given gene survive?

Making changes to the DNA in human embryos could accidentally introduce an error into the human gene pool, inadvertently creating a new disease that would be passed down for generations, critics say.

The big fear is this could open the door to scientists editing DNA in embryos for other reasons, and they could make some kind of mistake that would mess up the human gene pool.

Dating a person of a different race actually helps with genetic diversity and is only helping to prolong and improve the human gene pool.

He does have one particular obsession, and that is the so - called Darwin Awards, which are fictional annual awards (delivered in book and internet form) given to people who die through acts of sheer stupidity (a man straps a jet engine to his car, a woman puts an RV in cruise control thinking it will drive itself, etc.), thus taking the dumbest among us out of the human gene pool.

To pinpoint the appeal of British B - movie bruiser Jason Statham, one need look no further than the place where the ball of Statham's foot, the crown of his head, or the bend of his elbow makes sudden, bone - shattering contact with some lesser specimen of the human gene pool.