Sentences with phrase «human migration routes»

It can even be useful for archaeologists who look at human migration routes, and are interested to see how the European environment developed over the last 20 000 years.»

Students simulate the passing on of genetic markers and make connections to ancient human migration routes.

Not exact matches

The wildebeest migration is the largest terrestrial migration on the planet, and others of its kind have largely disappeared as humans have killed off animals or cut off their migration routes.

Shapiro, too, now favours the theory of a coastal migration route for humans.

New genomic data suggest that the first human settlers on the Scandinavian peninsula followed two distinct migration routes.

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.

That's strong evidence for early modern human migration across the Red Sea to Arabia, he says, rather than the more northern route.

The Irharhar river, westernmost of the three identified, may represent a likely route of human migration across the region.

The simulations provided in this study aim to quantify the probability that these routes may have been viable for human migration across the region.

The corridor has been considered a potential route for human and animal migrations between the far north (Alaska and Yukon) and the rest of North America, but when and how it was used has long been uncertain.

While older fossils of modern humans have been found in Africa, the timing and routes of modern human migration out of Africa are key issues for understanding the evolution of our own species, said the researchers.

At the Natural History Museum in London, for example, Chris Stringer, an expert on modern human origins, continues to lean toward a terrestrial migration route out of Africa.

This suggests there was a coastal migration route that required some kind of seafaring facility, says Silvia Gonzalez of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, who investigates early human footprints in the Americas.

Using sophisticated models of weather and human movement patterns, the analysis predicts the worm's entry later this year, accomplished either by its independent migration or as it hitches rides along trade routes.

Skyscrapers, power transmission lines, vehicles and other existing human artifacts / activities are much more lethal to birds than are wind turbines — at least, since small turbines sited on migration routes have become a thing of the past.