Sentences with phrase «modern human behavior in»

The artifacts push the history of modern human behavior in southern Africa back more than 20,000 years, archaeologists report online July 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forging a link between the cultures of ancient and present - day humans.

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Modern economics is thc science of self - interest, of how to best accommodate individual behavior by means of markets and the commodification of human relations... In this economic world view, the traditional human faculty of reason gets short - changed and degraded to act as the servant of sensory desires.

As the world is becoming more international in its relations, that is an increasingly less realistic goal, even though it can not be denied that the idea carries a lot of appeal to modern humans as their behavior and decision - making has evolved in tribal contexts over most of their biological existence.

To test this, Shelby Putt, an anthropologist at the Stone Age Institute and Indiana University, compared the brains of modern people making Oldowan and Acheulean tools in a study published earlier this year in Nature Human Behavior.

The South African archaeological record is so important because it shows some of the oldest evidence for modern behavior in early humans.

Evidence presented in April at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting in Chicago suggests that Neandertal behavior resembled that of early modern humans.

More recently, a report by Kevin N. Laland of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and his colleagues in Nature Reviews Genetics, building on an earlier proposal by Robert Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Peter J. Richerson of U.C. Davis, argued that human culture, defined as any learned behavior, including technology, has been the dominant natural selection force on modern humans.

«Although autonomy - establishing behavior is clearly of value in modern Western society, in which daily survival threats are minimal, it may have become linked to stress reactions over the course of human evolution, when separation from the larger human pack was likely to bring grave danger,» Allen and colleagues write.

The finding, reported here today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of ScienceNOW, suggests to the researcher that modern behaviors such as dolling up with jewelry may have originated from a need to communicate rather than a fundamental change in the human brain.

But evidence is mounting that these hallmarks of modern human behavior may have existed in earlier hominids.

And 30 years ago, when the field of evolutionary psychology was gaining steam, some facile parallels between ancient and modern behaviors lodged themselves in the popular conceptions of human evolution.

From the news coverage of a new study concluding that Neandertals, like modern humans, engaged in symbolic behavior, you might think the study settles a long - standing debate between researchers who think Neandertals were stupid and those who think they were smart.

In contradiction to this theory is archaeological evidence to suggest early modern humans had already expanded beyond Africa by this time (22) and that the eruption of the YTT did not disturb the behavior of populations inhabiting peninsular India (12).

We also show that genes involved in skeletal morphology have changed more than expected on the Neandertal evolutionary lineage whereas genes involved in pigmentation and behavior have changed more on the modern human lineage.

In the past decade an overwhelming consensus has emerged that modern human anatomy and behavior first appeared in Africa sometime during the past 600,000 years, and spread from there to the rest of the worlIn the past decade an overwhelming consensus has emerged that modern human anatomy and behavior first appeared in Africa sometime during the past 600,000 years, and spread from there to the rest of the worlin Africa sometime during the past 600,000 years, and spread from there to the rest of the world.

According to the researchers, the location of the discovery suggest that early hominins might have intentionally deposited bodies of their dead in a «burial chamber» of sorts — a «ritualized» behavior previously considered limited to modern humans.

The evolution of the human diet over the past 10,000 years from a Paleolithic diet to our current modern pattern of intake has resulted in profound changes, not only in our in feeding behavior, but our overall health.

But there is much more on the films plate than simply laughing - to - prevent - from - crying at the current state of America, the film delves into life philosophy, behavior etiquette in the modern world and simple human dignity in ways that only a good comedy can.

The modern is interested in the exhibition of human nature, in its psychology, in its intimate behavior.

In the same way that inbreeding among human populations can increase the frequency of normally rare genes that cause diseases, the selective breeding that created the hundreds of modern dog breeds has put purebred dogs at risk for a large number of health problems, affecting both body and behavior.

In early - modern social science theory, John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte, and others, laid the foundation for social psychology by asserting that human social cognition and behavior could, and should, be studied scientifically like any other natural science.