Sentences with phrase «human migration studies»

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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.

Although the first humans left Africa some 100,000 years ago, a study published in 2013 found that some came back again around 3,000 years ago; this reverse migration has left its trace in African genomes.

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 new study doesn't provide direct evidence of this group migration in human cancer.

Genetic studies released in 2016 put a new molecular spin on humans» long - ago migrations.

Researchers who study human migration say countries offer two reasons: fear that letting in some refugees will encourage more, and that migrants will be an economic burden.

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.

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.

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

«Ice age bison fossils shed light on early human migrations in North America: Study dates the first movements of bison through an ice - free corridor that opened between the ice sheets after the last glacial maximum.»

«It will be interesting in the future to do a full study of human populations using this strain - level method to see whether we can use bacteria to reconstruct the history of human migrations,» he said.

They — and all other Europeans — are already a mishmash, the children of repeated ancient migrations, according to scientists who study ancient human origins.

A new study titled Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary, released Friday in the journal Science, is the first to quantitatively show that human effects on mammal body size predates their migration out of Africa and that size selective extinction is a hallmark of human activities and not the norm in mammal evolution.

Steele, who studies how food sources and environmental change influenced human evolution and migration, was part of the international research team that began excavating at the site in 2004.

Almost all of us are the children of repeated ancient migrations, according to researchers who study ancient human origins.

The study shows the importance of considering human history when using genetics to study the migration of large carnivores, which, historically, heads of state have given as gifts.

«Migration decisions, like all livelihood decisions, are about much more than material quality of life,» argues geographer Edward Carr of the University of South Carolina, who studies human migration in countries such as Ghana and was not involved in the Mexico emigration research.

Prof Jiming Liu who led the study explained, «By basing our model on wild bird migration and distribution of potentially infected poultry we are able to produce a time line of the estimated risk of human infection with H7N9.

Almost all of us are the children of repeated ancient migrations, according to researchers who study human origins.

«Studying the history of organisms that we use and breed, and that we've had an effect on, tells us about history as well as culture and human migration.»

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

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 study of ancient skulls found in Brazil reveals that human migration occurred in Americas through two waves of human population.

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.

A 2009 study on African genetics located the origin of modern human migration in south - western Africa, near the coastal border of Namibia and Angola.

Listen to the Nature Podcast in which study author María Martinón - Torres explains how the ancient teeth challenge ideas of early human migration here.

«The high - resolution portrait of human genetic diversity afforded by these studies allows new inferences to be made about our migration out of Africa,» write Serena Tucci and Joshua Akey in an accompanying News & Views article.

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

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KS 3: Instructions and guidelines for students to carry out a Depth Study on human migration in Africa.

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Areas of study include migration, technology, human capital, charter schools, and more.

The same study hypothesizes that early pariah dogs originated in Asia and migrated with nomadic human groups both south to Africa and north to the Arctic, with subsequent migrations occurring throughout Asia.

Although the finding that shelter intake declined in association with the inception of the voucher program, the presence of extraneous (confounding) factors associated both with time and shelter intake can not be ruled out, including migration into and out of the county (although the human population actually increased during the study period).

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This analytical report applies a human development approach to the study of migration.

Consider the facts: the climate system is indicated to have left the natural cycle path; multiple lines of evidence and studies from different fields all point to the human fingerprint on current climate change; the convergence of these evidence lines include ice mass loss, pattern changes, ocean acidification, plant and species migration, isotopic signature of CO2, changes in atmospheric composition, and many others.