Sentences with phrase «migration of modern human»

By tracing the spread of different strains of H. pylori, researchers have been able to trace and date the migration of modern human ancestors out of Africa.

The alleles associated with light pigmentation swept to near fixation outside of Africa due to positive selection, and we show that these lineages coalesce ~ 60 ka, corresponding with the time of migration of modern humans out of Africa.

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

Not exact matches

Not only does this suggest modern humans might have been stepping tentatively into Europe and getting friendly with Neanderthals long before the wave of migration that led to today's population, it shows Neanderthals were more diverse than we thought.

Because of a naturally occurring genetic mutation in European herds, another milk protein, A1, appeared and spread worldwide due to human migration and modern farming practices.

Scientists have long debated when anatomically modern humans first trekked out of Africa and how many waves of migration there

While it is widely accepted that the origins of modern humans date back some 200,000 years to Africa, there has been furious debate as to which model of early Homo sapiens migration most plausibly led to the population of the planet — and the eventual extinction of Neanderthals.

That puts modern humans far from home tens of millennia before the now - outdated human evolution and migration timeline had us even leaving Africa.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

There has been debate about the cause of these discrepancies, and it has been proposed that a hominin migration out of Africa might have occurred prior to the major dispersal of modern humans.

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.

«We know that there are likely to have been at least two admixture events into the ancestors of present - day people — the shared event early during modern human migration out of Africa, and a second event into the ancestors of present - day Asians,» says Kelso.

By comparing Ust» - Ishim's genome to various groups of modern and ancient humans, the researchers are filling in gaps in the map of initial human migrations around the globe.

Instead, almost all modern humans «have this incredibly complex history of mixing and mating and migration.»

Several recent archaeological and fossil discoveries in Asia are also pushing back the first appearance of modern humans in the region and, by implication, the migration out of Africa.

Several dating techniques applied to archaeological materials and the fossil itself suggest the jawbone is between 175,000 - 200,000 years old, pushing back the modern human migration out of Africa by at least 50,000 years.

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.

The region of the Middle East represents a major corridor for hominin migrations during the Pleistocene and has been occupied at different times by both modern humans and Neandertals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Moving to more recent times: We don't even know the full narrative of human evolution, and how modern humans migrated around the world, and whether people came to the Americas in a single migration or in multiple waves by land and boat.

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.

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.

Anthropological and population genetics, applied to questions of modern human origins and subsequent migrations and local adaptations.

More specifically the scientists provide the first genetic evidence of a scenario in which early modern humans left the African continent and mixed with archaic (now - extinct) members of the human family prior to the migration «out of Africa» of the ancestors of present - day non-Africans, less than 65,000 years ago.

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.

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