Sentences with phrase «modern homo»

Modern homo sapiens have been on the planet for over 100,000 years, but we've destroyed one - tenth of the globe's wilderness over the past 20.

Modern Homo sapiens had probably been in Africa during the last warm period in the ice ages, which started 130,000 years ago (this is when you see the first use of fireplaces as a centrally - located feature of encampments, suggesting some change in social organization).

As behaviorally modern Homo sapiens spread out of Africa more than 50 000 years ago, their advanced hunter - gatherer societies helped to cause the extinction of more than half of Earth's mammalian megafauna, yielding trophic cascading effects on ecosystems coupled with the direct effects of landscape burning to enhance hunting and foraging success.

northern adaptations are more or less irrelevant if your talking about things that shaped modern Homo.

Genetic analysis of the mandible of an anatomically modern Homo sapiens who lived in what is now Romania between 42,000 and 37,000 years ago reveals that...

«The traditional «out of Africa» model, which posits a dispersal of modern Homo sapiens across Eurasia as a single wave at ~ 60,000 years ago and the subsequent replacement of all indigenous populations, is in need of revision,» the researchers wrote in their study.

A new genetic study, published in the journal Genetics, supports the hypothesis that Neanderthals interbred with anatomically modern Homo sapiens in Eurasia.

If we mean the earliest representatives of Homo, the genus to which we belong, then the answer is quite different from the one if we mean the earliest people whose anatomy closely resembles our own (so - called anatomically modern Homo sapiens).

A human skull fragment recently unearthed at Manot Cave in Israel provides strong evidence that both anatomically modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals...

The stature of S1 falls within the range of modern Homo sapiens maximum values; it also fits the available Homo erectus sensu lato estimates based on fossil remains (Ruff and Walker, 1993) and on footprints (Bennett et al., 2009)(Figure 12).

Since modern Homo sapiens emerged 50,000 years ago, «natural selection has almost become irrelevant» to us, the influential Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould proclaimed.

There visitors can trace some six million years of human prehistory, from apelike creatures such as Sahelanthropus to anatomically modern Homo sapiens, from the first tool makers to the first artists.

Big brow ridges and teeth suggest that ancient Homo heidelbergensis (above) may have had more testosterone than modern Homo sapiens (left).

Modern Homo sapiens preceded Neanderthals on Mount Carmel and followed a similar pattern of life for 60,000 years.

Wrangham aimed to fill a gap in the story of how early hominins like Australopithecus — essentially, apes that walked upright — evolved into modern Homo sapiens.

However, the history of the more modern Homo erectus, big - brained and fully upright, has been told mainly through skull fossils, says Sileshi Semaw, a palaeoanthroplogist at the Stone Age Institute in Gosport, Indiana, who led the team.

Although he agrees recent evidence pushes back the start date for our species, Krause said the definition of a modern Homo sapiens remains subjective.

The invariance likely results from either a recent selective sweep, a recent origin for modern Homo sapiens, recurrent male population bottlenecks, or historically small effective male population sizes.

Just as with modern Homo sapiens, the genome of a single individual can not tell us exactly what genes and traits are specific to all Denisovans.

Mammals, starting with the Australopithecines have been on the earth for 2 to 4 million years.19 Modern Homo sapiens have been around for 30,000 to 35,000 years.

Modern Homo sapiens are remarkably sophisticated creatures, capable of writing symphonies, solving the Poincare Conjecture, and inventing Nutella, yet we carry around a number of fears that seem to be more characteristic of our ancient past.

Not exact matches

How do Adam and Eve relate to what we have learned about the evolution of modern humans from Australopithecus afarensis and Homo habilis?

The assumption underlying much contemporary thought is that authentic human existence is achieved only in moments where we become fully conscious of our creativity.11 The dominant anthropological image is that of homo faber.12 The influence of Marx and existentialism is present here, and these two strands of modern thought are always suspicious of any ideological or religious inclinations to undermine a sense of our human productivity.

The model of the human being with which economists work, Homo economicus, is also purely modern.

One wonders what we can learn from the practices of a subspecies of homo sapiens that did not survive, while modern humans did survive.

CT scans, used to produce these reconstructions, reveal a modern - looking face (left) but a braincase similar to older, now extinct Homo species (right).

A new, slightly morbid study based on the calorie counts of average humans suggests that human - eating was mostly ritualistic, not dietary, in nature among hominins including Homo erectus, H. antecessor, Neandertals, and early modern humans.

We can guess that this coat was lost by the time of Homo erectus, as its skeleton's proportions show that it was adapting to heat stress like modern humans do, and part of our adaptation involves an enhanced sweat gland cooling system which would not function well with a full coat of body hair.

It is thought to have been contemporaneous with modern humans (Homo sapiens) on the Indonesian island of Flores.

Similar to Yuval Noah Harari's recent, and equally expansive, Homo Deus, Lent's book seeks some perspective on our modern juggernaut of radical innovation and global polarisation.

SHELL GAME A geometric design carved into this shell may indicate that human ancestors took up at least one form of «modern human behavior» long before Homo sapiens came along.

A member of the now - extinct hominid species Homo erectus engraved a geometric design on a sea shell nearly half a million years ago, long before the earliest evidence of comparable etchings made by modern humans, researchers say.

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.

Modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the latest link in a chain of ancestry that stretches back 5 to 7 million years to a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos, humanity's two closest living relatives.

Homo floresiensis, the mysterious and diminutive species found in Indonesia in 2003, is tens of thousands of years older than originally thought — and may have been driven to extinction by modern humans.

Trinkaus and colleagues, describing the partial skulls in March in Science, won't speculate on whether they belonged to Homo sapiens transitioning from archaic to modern, the elusive Denisovans or an as - yet - unidentifi ed hominin species.

«Thus, both palaeo - anthropological and genetic evidence increasingly points to multiregional origins of anatomically modern humans in Africa, i.e. Homo sapiens did not originate in one place in Africa, but might have evolved from older forms in several places on the continent with gene flow between groups from different places,» says Carina Schlebusch.

One million years ago, this valley was populated by hand - axe - making Homo erectus, which evolved into H. rhodesiensis and then into the nearly anatomically modern H. sapiens idaltu.

Homo erectus — an early ancestor of modern humans — resembled a squat body builder more than a svelte distance runner, a newly unearthed fossil pelvis suggests.

As Martinón - Torres explains, for a long time the idea was held that this species was a direct ancestor of modern humanity, and «all the human fossils found in what we call the Far East and in the current islands of Indonesia have been attributed systematically to Homo erectus.

Now the residue from all the oil and coal burned to power modern civilization may provide the best marker for the start of a new geologic epoch that highlights Homo sapiens's world - changing impact, known as the Anthropocene, or «new age of humans.»

Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors — the so - called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins.

Flo is «one of the most complete fossils found anywhere until you get to true burials, like in Neanderthals and early modern humans,» says Jungers, who has been closely involved in Homo floresiensis research.

Using DNA sequencing, scientists have learned that anatomically modern humans interbred with Homo neanderthalensis, or the Neanderthals, probably around 60,000 years ago in the Middle East, before they fanned out to populate Europe and Asia.

Researchers have identified the evolutionary origins of human herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 and -2, reporting that the former infected hominids before their evolutionary split from chimpanzees 6 million years ago while the latter jumped from ancient chimpanzees to ancestors of modern humans — Homo erectus — approximately 1.6 million years ago.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified the evolutionary origins of human herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 and -2, reporting that the former infected hominids before their evolutionary split from chimpanzees 6 million years ago while the latter jumped from ancient chimpanzees to ancestors of modern humans — Homo erectus — approximately 1.6 million years ago.

Homo floresiensis, the enigmatic diminutive hominin from Flores, Indonesia, retains primitive wrist bones, implying that it is not closely related to modern humans.

Groups related to modern humans — including Homo erectus and the Neanderthals — trekked out of Africa considerably earlier, but the new analysis suggests they did so naked.

So, given three possible explanations for what the Flores hominid is, and those three possibilities are that, you know, a dwarfed species descended from Homo erectus or an Australopithecine or a microcephalic modern human, he says that the most parsimonious diagnosis is the one that requires the fewest assumptions — would be microcephaly.

For these researchers, the bursts of demographic expansion caused by climate change in southern Africa were probably key factors in the origin of modern humans» behaviour in Africa, and in the dispersal of Homo sapiens from his ancestral home.