Sentences with phrase «in prehistoric human»

Analyses of genome - wide data from 51 Eurasians from 7,000 — 45,000 years ago reveal two big changes in prehistoric human populations that are closely...

Associate Professor Ian Smith, an Otago archaeologist involved in the study, says it seems that these contrasting wildlife histories reflect differences in prehistoric human - hunting pressure.

Not exact matches

He thought that made the magazines better, in the same way prehistoric humans thought eating a lion's heart could make them fierce warriors.

There is simply NO evidence of massive information - adding, animal - benefiting mutations anywhere in biology that could prompt the descendents of a single «prehistoric» reptile to morph into human beings and all 5,500 species of mammalia.

It makes sense that intermittent fasting is not damaging to the body, as in the prehistoric age there was no guarnetee that food would be available at every four hour interval, and so it stands to reason that the human body is designed to accommodate for this.

IgA and IgG have the potential to retard streptococcal growth; streptococcus mutans is highly susceptible to the bactericidal action of lactoferrin, a major component of human milk.9, 10 Rugg - Gunn reported that cariogenic bacteria may not be able to utilize lactose, the sugar found in breastmilk, as readily as sucrose.8 Confirming the findings of other researchers, this author has evaluated approximately 600 skulls to find little evidence of problems with dental decay among our prehistoric breastfed ancestors.11, 12,13,14,15

PREHISTORIC humans may have harnessed fire to make hard, sharp stone blades soon after Homo sapiens emerged in eastern Africa 200,000 years ago.

Clear evidence of prehistoric conflict can be difficult to discern in other parts of the world, but the arid climate and sparse settlement in the Southwest have left pueblo ruins, cultural artifacts, and even human remains remarkably intact.

Encased in ice for 4,000 years, a clump of prehistoric human hair gave up its secrets to the University of Copenhagen's Eske Willerslev, the first researcher to sequence an ancient human genome.

At a recent conference on the topic, organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, presentation after presentation highlighted how prehistoric people burned the forest, cleared it, farmed it, nurtured certain of its tree species, and even built cities in it, leaving lasting, if subtle, marks.

Scientists have been giving us new views of the prehistoric world in the past decade that hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

Prehistoric human skeleton in the Chan Hol Cave near Tulúm on the Yucatán peninsula prior to looting by unknown cave divers.

It's not the plotline of some fantasy epic, but the real story of prehistoric Europe in the years after modern humans conquered the continent — as a new genetic analysis has just revealed.

«Human bones in south Mexico: Stalagmite reveals their age as 13,000 years old: Researchers date prehistoric skeleton found in a cave in Yucatán.»

Some of the first research on the importance of acoustics to prehistoric peoples was done by Iegor Reznikoff, an anthropologist of sound at Université Paris Ouest, who in the 1980s visited cave paintings and carvings in southern France that are about 25,000 years old, among the oldest known human art.

How humans settled the planet, in prehistoric and historic times, and how they came to be so diverse, are interesting questions for anthropological geneticists to tackle, if only those questions can be freed from their association, in some people's minds, with racism and colonialism, and if only the geneticists can get enough support.

Prehistoric human populations of hunter - gatherers in a region of North America grew at the same rate as farming societies in Europe, according to a new radiocarbon analysis involving researchers from the University of Wyoming and the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

«This similarity in growth rates suggests that prehistoric humans effectively adapted to their surroundings such that region - specific environmental pressure was not the primary mechanism regulating long - term population growth.»

12 Natural volcanic tunnels, called lava tubes, made cozy homes for prehistoric humans in Chile 12,000 years ago.

Evolutionary geneticists Svante Pääbo, Johannes Krause, and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, ground up a 30 - milligram sample and extracted and sequenced all of the 16,569 base pairs of its mtDNA genome, using new techniques Pääbo's group has successfully employed to sequence both Neandertal and prehistoric modern human DNA.

Now, a study of more than 100 dog burials in prehistoric Japan claims to provide the strongest evidence yet that early dogs did indeed help people hunt — and may have been critical to human survival in some parts of the world.

The skull was the fifth unearthed at a fossil - rich prehistoric watering hole in Dmanisi, Georgia; together, the specimens provide a vivid picture of the population of human ancestors at that location and place in time — and the variation within it.

The religion also served, through the ideal images of corpulence, to forge a sense of continuity in the community, the lineage, and the family beyond the short - term cycles of life that govern all humans and more particularly the prehistoric Maltese.

Research by a University of Southampton archaeologist suggests that early humans, who lived thousands of years before Neanderthals, were able to work together in groups to hunt and slaughter animals as large as the prehistoric elephant.

Serrallonga went on to do a 1 - year master's degree in geology, human paleontology, and prehistory at the European Centre for Prehistoric Research at Tautavel in France.

The ice reconstruction in this study provides a fascinating image of a changing Europe during the time prehistoric humans came to populate the continent.

So with techniques normally used for studying prehistoric humans, researchers created a 3D image of Descartes's brain (above) by scanning the impression it left on the inside of his skull, which has been kept for almost 200 years now in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

This publishing spotlight on the first prehistoric human form to be discovered (back in 1856) is appropriate, because it touches on the hottest topic in palaeoanthropology: the origin of modern humans.

The rock shelter has seen phases of human activity from the Mesolithic to the medieval period, with its prehistoric rock paintings known to be the highest painted representations of animals (quadrupeds) in Europe.

Knowing that they have been present in human relatives since prehistoric times could shed light on how the tumors co-opt an ancient molecular pathway in our cells to grow.

This had a lot to do with our ability to create large social networks — we know, for example, that prehistoric modern humans avoided inbreeding and went to stay with friends in distant locations during hard times.

So far, researchers have largely relied on linguistic and archeological evidence to map out human migrations in prehistoric Polynesia.

There are currently hundreds of archeological sites in the Everglades, and almost every tree island has evidence of prehistoric human occupation; unfortunately, most tree islands have not been archeologically investigated.

The significance of tree islands as the only dry ground has long been acknowledged, but their significance also lies beneath the earth, as archeological findings from a dig in 2010 present data that prehistoric humans played a significant role in the formation of tree islands, and in turn, the archeological discoveries should be considered in current Everglades restoration models.

Since 2008, an international research team led by Prof. Dr. Madelaine Böhme from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) of the University of Tübingen has been studying prehistoric ecosystems and fossils in Vietnam.

The technique relies on the radioactive isotope carbon - 14, whose radioactivity diminishes over time in a predictable manner, allowing researchers to calculate the age of ancient human sites using charcoal from fires or the bones of the prehistoric humans themselves.

Prehistoric human populations of hunter - gatherers in the region that is now Wyoming and Colorado grew at the same rate as farming societies in Europe, according to a new radiocarbon analysis involving University of Wyoming researchers.

Weissbrod's research involves analysis of microvertebrate remains from a wide range of prehistoric and historic sites in Israel and the Caucasus dealing with paleoecology and human - ecosystem interactions.

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.

Prehistoric humans had a penchant for tortoises: New discovery at excavation of Qesem Cave reveals tortoises played a supplementary role in the diets of early humans 400,000 years ago.»

An underground sheet of ice in the mountains of Transylvania has given scientists a glimpse of climate changes in prehistoric Europe that helped humans settle that part of the continent.

Archaeologists, who studied ancient tools, ornaments, and human remains in the prehistoric rock shelter Riparo Bombrini, discovered how early homo sapiens survived a climate - changing supervolcano eruption This discovery offered clues how humans can survive climate change.

Most of human existence was, and is, prehistoric — lost in the fog, kind of like my senior year in high school.

According to the authors, the skull and its associated materials speak to «the origin of the Neanderthals and the pattern of human evolution» in Europe during that prehistoric period.

The discovery of cave art in Sulawesi from that same period in human history means prehistoric Europe was not the only haven for cave artists.

An earlier study, which was published in the journal Science in March this year, provided evidence that prehistoric human ancestors interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans hundreds of thousands of years earlier.

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, presents compelling evidence that stone tool - making helped to drive the evolution of language and teaching among prehistoric human ancestors in the African savanna.

A project exploring the role of East Africa in the evolution of modern humans has amassed the largest and most diverse collection of prehistoric bone harpoons ever assembled from the area.

Scientists led by University of Bristol's biogeochemist Prof Richard Evershed say they have evidence that humans in prehistoric Europe were making cheese...

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.