Sentences with phrase «human migration from»

(5) The dates for this are 70 - 77,000 years before present and predate significant human migration from Africa.

It is thought that 1000 A.D. to 1200 A.D. was the period of greatest human migration from Polynesia to Maui.

Actor - producer Gael Garcia Bernal takes a strikingly complex look at the timely issue of human migration from Central America to the United States, which is rarely depicted with such honest humanity.

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This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

Alex Balch has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, EU and Joseph Rowntree Foundation for research into policy on labour migration and efforts to tackle forced labour and human trafficking.

Parolin recently returned from a meeting in Mexico dedicated to migration issues and human rights.

Apparently embarrassed by the high number of Libyan returnees from Edo state and in a bid to curb the challenges of illegal migration, Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, has appointed a Senior Special Assistant on Human Trafficking and Illegal Migration.

All non-Africans stem from one major founding population, the studies agree, but earlier human migrations are also recorded in present - day people's DNA, one study finds.

«It's quite amazing that 50 thousand year - old migrations still leave a mark on current human genetic diversity, but to be able to see this you need a huge amount of data in many populations from different continents.

«If climate were causing this, we would expect to see these extinction events either sometimes (diverging from) human migration across the globe or always lining up with clear climate events in the record,» said Lyons, assistant professor of biology at Nebraska.

The report from a team of scientists at Vanderbilt University is the first part in a wide - ranging, $ 7.5 million analysis of environmental stress and human migration scenarios in the low - lying South Asian nation.

The authors could only infer from the autopsy samples that a similar migration of neurons from the SVZ to the prefrontal cortex had taken place in the human infants.

That puts modern humans far from home tens of millennia before the now - outdated human evolution and migration timeline had us even leaving Africa.

The genetic data recovered by the research team, led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Tübingen, provides a timeline for a proposed hominin migration out of Africa that occurred after the ancestors of Neanderthals arrived in Europe by a lineage more closely related to modern humans.

In any case, however, high quality nuclear genome data from more than one individual would be necessary to fully investigate this proposed wave of human migration out of Africa, and is an intriguing area for future study.

The Genographic Project, launched in April 2005, is a five - year genetic anthropology study that aims to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from over 100,000 people across five continents.

Three ancient river systems, now buried, may have created viable routes for human migration across the Sahara to the Mediterranean region about 100,000 years ago, according to research published September 11 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Tom Coulthard from the University of Hull, UK, and colleagues from other institutions.

Genetic studies such as this one may help anthropologists understand those migrations — and their timing — even better by giving them a genetic «clock» to use when studying today's humans, or potentially DNA extracted from ancient bones.

A final wave of human migration, this time from across the Atlantic, brought with it cats, rats, goats, mongoose, and other introduced mammals.

According to Shapiro, archeological evidence suggests that human migration within the corridor was mostly from south to north.

Some populations migrate 2,500 km each autumn from Svalbard to Scotland, yet in the run up to migration they fly for only a few minutes each day — short bursts of flight that perhaps mirror the modern high - intensity training (HIT) regimes human athletes use to boost maximal aerobic capacity.

Indeed, the evidence from Misliya is consistent with recent suggestions based on ancient DNA for an earlier migration, prior to 220,000 years ago, of modern humans out of Africa.

Kennewick Man's genome reveals that he is more closely related to contemporary Native Americans than to any other humans on the planet — dashing the remote possibility that he represents a mysterious migration from the east.

For example, our data provides evidence for today's European population being genetically descendant primarily from late mid-eastern migrations that took place after the last ice age, rather than from the first humans to arrive to the continent, more than 40,000 years ago.»

Smith et al. show that biased loss of large - bodied mammal species from ecosystems is a signature of human impacts that has been following hominin migrations since the Pleistocene.

The genome analysis also questions previous findings that modern humans populated Asia in two waves from their origin in Africa, finding instead a common origin for all populations in the Asia - Pacific region, dating back to a single out - of - Africa migration event.

Tendencies that have come to define modern Western societies include the existence of political pluralism, prominent subcultures or countercultures (such as New Age movements), and increasing cultural syncretism — resulting from globalization and human migration.

The carbon in layers of algae from the bottom of a Japanese lake will help reveal the precise dates of historical climate change and human migrations

If the migration from Indonesia to Madagascar was «a limited event» which brought only a small number of colonizers in a few voyages, then why does the human population of the island have such a high diversity of maternal and paternal lineages with Indonesian origin?

But another kind of DNA might help them in their work — ancient human DNA that details migration and population patterns from that time.

He has analyzed genetic relationships among diverse groups of people and finds that today's humans show evidence of interbreeding among Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, and other early hominids over a wide span of time, from as far back as 1.5 million years ago until the last hypothesized global migration, around 80,000 years ago.

«It is great to see that what we call the standard model of human evolution gets confirmation from entirely separate evidence,» says population geneticist Luca Cavalli - Sforza of Stanford University in California, the first researcher to trace human migrations with DNA.

This is consistent with recent findings that AMY2B copy number is highest in modern dog populations originating from geographic regions with prehistoric agrarian societies, and lowest from regions where humans did not rely on agriculture for subsistence34 and supports the claim that the expansion occurred after initial domestication (possibly after the migration of dingoes to Australia 3,500 — 5,000 years ago) 34.

Neanderthal DNA from a femur offers scientists proof that a small human group left Africa and disappeared long before the ancient human migration that spearheaded modern human population.

[3] H. Lin et al., «Influence of decellularized matrix derived from human mesenchymal stem cells on their proliferation, migration and multi-lineage differentiation potential,» Biomaterials, 33:4480 − 9, 2012.

Older traces of modern humans previously discovered outside Africa, such as the roughly 100,000 - year - old remains from the Skhul and Qafzeh caves in Israel, were discarded by scientists as evidence of unsuccessful efforts at wider migration.

The slow migration of humans from Africa to Europe brought about the eventual doom of Neanderthals, according to a new study.

The first ancient human genome from Africa to be sequenced has revealed that a wave of migration back into Africa from Western Eurasia around 3,000 years ago affected the genetic make - up of populations across East Africa.

A new study, which was published in the journal Science on Dec. 8, suggests that new discoveries made over recent years show that modern humans may have originated from several migrations from Africa, which started as early as 120,000 years ago, or 60,000 years earlier than previous estimates.

A new study, looking at the sex - specifically inherited X chromosome of prehistoric human remains, shows that hardly any women took part in the extensive migration from the Pontic - Caspian Steppe approximately 5,000 years ago.

«Our greatest challenge impacting human health and our eco-systems stems from the ongoing emergence of new viral strains and mutants as a consequence of globalisation, migration and travel.

The modern human ancestor who contributed genes to this particular Neanderthal individual — called the «Altai Neanderthal,» and known from a tiny toe bone fragment — must have migrated out of Africa long before the migration that led Africans into Europe and Asia 60,000 years ago, the scientists say.

The studies describe genetic diversity from typically understudied regions and together provide new insight into the migration of modern humans out of Africa.

Nearly 50,000 years ago, Eurasians separated from Africans, experienced a bottleneck period during which their population was very low, and then splintered into regional populations throughout Eurasia — the so - called out - of - Africa theory of human migration.

In 2009, two German scientists looked at whether the migration of substances from plastic packaging material into foodstuffs contributes to human exposure to man - made hormones.

There are several definitions of the term migration, for example, according to the National Population Council (CONAPO in Mexico) in human social terms: migration is the movement of people from their birthplace to a different place, in some cases they even move to a different country, and it happens for an undetermined period of time.

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The first whole - genome analyses of ancient human DNA from Southeast Asia reveal that there were at least three major waves of human migration into the region over the last 50,000 years.

Set against the Platte River's massive spring migrations — one of the greatest spectacles in nature — The Echo Maker is a gripping mystery that explores the improvised human self and the even more precarious brain that splits us from and joins us to the rest of creation.

This migration from the back yard to the bedroom from the kennel to the couch is a characteristic that represents the different ages of human development from the cave to the comfort of the couch.