Sentences with phrase «human hunters led»

Woolly mammoths were one of the most common large herbivores in North America, Siberia, and Beringia until a warming climate and human hunters led to their extinction on the mainland about 10,000 years ago.

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An international consortium led by researchers from the University of Tübingen and Harvard Medical School analyzed ancient human genomes from a ~ 7,000 - year - old early farmer from the LBK culture from Stuttgart in Southern Germany, a ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherer from the Loschbour rock shelter in Luxembourg, and seven ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherers from Motala in Sweden.

The American Bird Conservancy in The Plains, Virginia, which advocates for lead - free hunting, argues that publicizing the risk of lead shot to human health might persuade hunters to use alternatives.

Western Pygmies I love population genetics for its ability to peer back into human history through the medium of DNA's ATCGs.One of the stars of this discipline is Sarah Tishkoff, a standout in African genetics, someone who will readily haul a centrifuge into the bush in Cameroon.Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania is lead author on a paper published online July 26 in Cell that details whole - genome sequencing of five individuals each from three extant hunter - gatherer groups — the Pygmies of Cameroon as well as the Hadza and the Sandawe of Tanzania.

By providing stable access to human shelter and food, hunter - gatherers led house mice down the path to commensalism, an early phase of domestication in which a species learns how to benefit from human interaction.

Interestingly, clustering is something done in human societies, from hunter - gatherers to Facebook users,» explained lead author Amiyaal Ilany, who conducted the research as a NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow.

Lead author Andrea Migliano, an evolutionary anthropologist at University College London, explained that she and her team chose to focus on hunter - gatherers because they represent the closest examples of human lifestyles and social organizations from the past.

That may be because domestication occurred while humans were all hunter - gatherers at the time, leading extensively migrant lifeways.

Most hunter - gatherers keeled over and died before they even hit their forties, they didn't have the ability to choose what they ate they simply ate whatever they could find and sometimes this led to health complications, mummified corpses of humans from this period actually show that they did have a ton of health problems, and how could they not?

One such person is a bright, resourceful young hunter (Barry Pepper) who may very well be the one to lead the human race to winning back its freedom from the alien invaders.

Great auks, flightless birds resembling penguins, were prolific in the icy waters of the northern Atlantic until human hunters, egg collectors, and climate change led to their extinction.

In The Banner Saga, you follow the parallel journeys of warmaster Hakon, a member of the horned giant race, the Varl, who are escorting a prince of men, and hunter Rook, a human suddenly saddled with leading his community to safety after their village is destroyed by White Walkers - cum - Baby Colossi, the Dredge.

Part of the game follows the Varl (Vikings), while the majority of your journey will be spent with a ragtag mix of Varl and humans led by a hunter named Rook, and a Varl legend by the name of Iver.

Also, increased human activity in caribou territory leads to more encounters with hunters and vehicles.