Sentences with phrase «in human evolutionary history»

Martin Trauth of Potsdam University and colleagues found geological evidence that deep, freshwater lakes existed around 2.6 million, 1.8 million and 1 million years ago — key dates in human evolutionary history.

[10] In human evolutionary history, the Moro reflex may have helped infants cling to the mother while being carried around.

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Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

i am happy that you had help in your time of need,, but at the end of the day these were not Mormons, or Catholics, or Jews or atheists... they were human beings helping human beings, which has been part of our evolutionary history..

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

madtown, The evolutionary process that effect His will is not interventionary in its process, it follows the law of nature, God is not Human, we are only part of Him, our wisdom is infinitesimaly small, The reason is beyond us, just like History, it is only after thousands or millions of years that we understood why it happened, for example, Why the dynasours got extinct, millions of years ago, to pave the way for smaller animals and ultimately humans, Thats why to apply the present human logic on history is illogically simpliHuman, we are only part of Him, our wisdom is infinitesimaly small, The reason is beyond us, just like History, it is only after thousands or millions of years that we understood why it happened, for example, Why the dynasours got extinct, millions of years ago, to pave the way for smaller animals and ultimately humans, Thats why to apply the present human logic on history is illogically simpHistory, it is only after thousands or millions of years that we understood why it happened, for example, Why the dynasours got extinct, millions of years ago, to pave the way for smaller animals and ultimately humans, Thats why to apply the present human logic on history is illogically simplihuman logic on history is illogically simphistory is illogically simplistic.

The ultimate spiritual question is, is human being with his / her awakening to self - identity and personhood an accident in the evolutionary process and earth's history or is it really the result of the working of some purposive cosmic force, God or whatever?

Attendance at birth has been suggested to be essential in facilitating mother - child survival as the physiology of birth changed during human evolutionary history.

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Consideration of the human neonate from an evolutionary perspective throws the recent history of infant care in our own society into sharp relief.

Additionally, evidence that modern humans interbred with other hominins already present in Asia, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, complicates the evolutionary history of our species.

In The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable (MIT Press, 2016; 272 pages), neuroscientist Suzana Herculano - Houzel unravels what really sets the human brain apart from that of other primates, tracing our evolutionary history and describing her efforts to tally our individual neuHuman Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable (MIT Press, 2016; 272 pages), neuroscientist Suzana Herculano - Houzel unravels what really sets the human brain apart from that of other primates, tracing our evolutionary history and describing her efforts to tally our individual neuhuman brain apart from that of other primates, tracing our evolutionary history and describing her efforts to tally our individual neurons.

The chapter on origins, for example, takes a quick tour through the big bang, the formation of Earth, the history of the continents, the origin of life, its evolutionary history, plus human evolution — and all in less than 40 pages.

The results suggest that pupil mimicry might have a long evolutionary history, says Kret, because if the phenomenon is present in both humans and chimps it is possible it originally evolved in a common ancestor of the two species.

That discovery, in turn, implies that the voice area has a long evolutionary history and was probably already present in the common ancestor of macaques and humans some 20 million years ago.

The ease of transport and the global population mean that humans are more at risk of disease than at any other time in our evolutionary history, Jones says.

There are a lot of interesting questions that can be answered beyond Europe,» such as the evolutionary histories of humans, animals, and plants from elsewhere in the world, which is one of her goals for her new lab.

«It's a tightknit community, but it's also a tight field, in that a lot of people are interested in the same overall questions» — for example, what are the evolutionary histories of humans, charismatic large animals like polar bears, and essential agricultural crops like maize.

To trace the gene's evolutionary history in humans, the team sequenced a segment of DNA that includes ACTN3 in 96 people from Europe, Asia, or Africa.

Additional support could come from the chimpanzee genome, which may allow researchers to clock when the genes for slow - twitch muscle fibers — crucial for running long distances and plentiful in people but not chimps — diverged in the common evolutionary history of humans and apes.

This study sheds light on the evolutionary history, and adaptive significance, of skin pigmentation in humans.

While we were waiting for our evolutionary fast lane to be paved, racing through all of human prehistory and history in the time it takes one of them to divide once, they have been living in time with the planet's deepest, slowest rhythms.

The notion that humans got to a point in evolutionary history when their bodies were somehow «in sync» with the environment, and that at some time after that point — whether due to the advent of agriculture, the invention of the bow and arrow, or the availability of the hamburger — we went astray from those roots reflects a misunderstanding of evolution.

«We can't begin to understand how malaria spread to humans until we understand its evolutionary history,» said lead author Holly Lutz, a doctoral candidate in the fields of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at Cornellevolutionary history,» said lead author Holly Lutz, a doctoral candidate in the fields of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at CornellEvolutionary Biology and Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at Cornell University.

The uniquely human habit of taking 18 years or so to mature is a recent development in our evolutionary history.

«This is a simply stunning fossil discovery that has provided a fascinating new piece in the puzzle of human evolutionary history.

However, because of the nature of the chamber sediments and the lack of other animal remains at the site, the researchers have not yet been able to nail down the exact age of these fossils, without which «there's no way we can judge the evolutionary significance of this find,» Rick Potts, director of the human origins program at the Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Museum, who was not involved in the discovery, told the Associated Press.

In a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, the researchers shed light on the evolutionary history of these pathogens, which are fast developing resistance to even the so - called last - resort antibiotics, due to their high consumption among humanIn a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, the researchers shed light on the evolutionary history of these pathogens, which are fast developing resistance to even the so - called last - resort antibiotics, due to their high consumption among humanin the journal Cell, the researchers shed light on the evolutionary history of these pathogens, which are fast developing resistance to even the so - called last - resort antibiotics, due to their high consumption among humans.

To reconstruct modern human evolutionary history and identify loci that have shaped hunter - gatherer adaptation, we sequenced the whole genomes of five individuals in each of three different hunter - gatherer populations at > 60 × coverage: Pygmies from Cameroon and Khoesan - speaking Hadza and Sandawe from Tanzania.

Kelley Harris (Stanford University, USA), Genomics and Proteomics category winner, thereafter presented her work on building evolutionary models to interpret the historical record of mutation events in the human genome and coming to the conclusion that the mutation process itself has continued to evolve during recent human history.

Currently, I study the prevalence, genetic diversity and evolutionary history of Demodex lineages, in relation to both human populations, as well as other mammalian hosts.

A similar, but perhaps less extensive, adaptation to increased intake of starches has been found in us humans, which reflects how tightly linked the evolutionary history of humans and dogs are.

Core faculty members advise students and conduct research in primate and human paleontology, evolutionary morphology, paleoecology, dental anthropology, molecular systematics, genetics, phylogeography, and primate behavior and life - history.

-- The evolutionary history of humans in Africa is much more complex than we have believed so far.

South Asian genetic landscape, bearing in mind its geographic, linguistic, socio - cultural and skin color diversity, offers an excellent model system to decipher the genetic underpinnings of human skin color variation and for a better understanding of it's evolutionary history.

Advances in the sequencing and the analysis of the genomes of both modern and ancient peoples have facilitated a number of breakthroughs in our understanding of human evolutionary history.

While in Oxford, she pioneered the earliest applications of bone DNA typing in forensic identification and human evolutionary history.

Added to this list of potential body toxins, petrochemicals, industrial waste, medical and street drugs, radiation (X-rays, nuclear fallout etc.) and tons of pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides, the result is an incredible chemical avalanche to have befallen the human race in a relatively short period of evolutionary history.

Discover how fossils as far back as seven million years trace the evolutionary history of humans in Finding Our Human Ancestors.»

He is still awed by «icebergs, whales, the sea and ships, circumpolar currents, geologic time, the origins and evolutionary histories of life forms, the quirks of birds, birders and explorers, antifreeze in fish blood, the blue in ice, human folly, the ozone hole...

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Program in Human Ecology and Archaeobiology, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Psychological studies * and surveys have revealed deeply ingrained human traits, many shaped by our evolutionary history as a «here and now» species, that prevent us from acting rationally in the face of threats with long time scales, dispersed impacts and inherent complexity.

Psychological and sociological studies have revealed deeply ingrained human traits, many shaped by our evolutionary history as a «here and now» species, that prevent us from acting rationally in the face of threats with long time scales, dispersed impacts and inherent complexity.

The scientists note that the combination of rapid global warming and human ecological impacts «will present terrestrial ecosystems with an environment that is unprecedented in recent evolutionary history.»

These are fire - dependent trees, and their evolutionary history necessarily predates human existence, especially any human presence in North America.

Three small islands are only about 1,500 acres total, but this little bit of land has played a major role in evolutionary history as well as human history.