Sentences with phrase «human lineages diverging»
Orangutans were next, followed by gorillas, with the chimpanzees and human lineages diverging from each other last.
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Within the last three to five million years, after human and other ape lineages diverged from the hominid stem - line, the human line produced a variety of human species.
Because Neandertals are much closer kin to us than are chimpanzees, which diverged from the human lineage 5 to 7 million years ago, matching Neandertal DNA against our own has the potential to reveal genetic changes that help define who we are.
Even though the specimen is only 2330 years old, other human lineages that were around at this time had diverged more from mitochondrial Eve.
As such, heand his colleagues wanted to pin down how old Chororapithecus was, in order to better pinpoint when the human and gorilla lineages may have first diverged.
By reading the DNA, the researchers were able to show that the lineage of this fourth Caucasus hunter - gatherer strand diverged from the western hunter - gatherers just after the expansion of anatomically modern humans into Europe from Africa.
These Ardipithecus fossils were the earliest ancestor of humans after they diverged from the main ape lineage of the primate family tree, neither ape - like nor chimp - like, yet not human either.
Su's team found that a gene called the PACAP precursor stayed substantially the same across eons, but then, sometime after humans and chimps diverged, it evolved at warp speed in the human lineage.
Although the origin of the mouse and human has been the subject of recent debate, it is thought that the mouse lineage diverged from the human somewhere around 75 million years ago.