Sentences with phrase «modern human adaptation»
«Humans in this region thrived through the Toba event and the ensuing full glacial conditions, perhaps as a combined result of the uniquely rich resource base of the region and fully evolved modern human adaptation,» study authors noted.
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That struck a chord with me when I realized that it might mean that creationists are a better adaptation to modern human life.
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.
«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression is that interbreeding with archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.
By interbreeding with these archaic humans, we modern humans gained these advantageous adaptations.»
Adaptations that gave our ancestors an evolutionary edge can cause major problems for modern humans
Although Australia is halfway around the world from our species's accepted birthplace in Africa, the continent is nevertheless home to some of the earliest undisputed signs of modern humans outside Africa, and Aborigines have unique languages and cultural adaptations.
Furthermore, «because some hunter - gatherer societies obtained most of their dietary energy from wild animal fat and protein does not imply that this is the ideal diet for modern humans, nor does it imply that modern humans have genetic adaptations to such diets.»
Squeeze a baseball or pen between your thumb and the tips of your fingers: You are using what researchers call a precision grip, a highly evolved adaptation thought to be unique to modern humans and our most recent ancestors.
Research interests: Hominin evolution, human skeletal biology, dental anthropology, comparative morphology, dispersal and cultural adaptations of modern 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.
Anthropological and population genetics, applied to questions of modern human origins and subsequent migrations and local adaptations.
A separate study discovered that some of these Neanderthal genes resulted in adaptations that were both beneficial and detrimental for modern humans.
There's no doubt that modern veterinary medicine has achieved milestones in pet health both through direct research and through adaptation of human medicine to animal companions.