Sentences with phrase «modern human behaviour»

This strongly implies that innovational pulses of early modern human behaviour were climatically influenced and linked to the adoption of refugia.

This paint making toolkit played a crucial role in our understanding of the evolution of the human mind, and led to the repositioning of the birthplace of modern human behaviour from Europe to Africa.

Finding these hominins on an isolated island in Asia, and with elements of modern human behaviour in tool making and hunting, is truly remarkable and could not have been predicted by previous discoveries.

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On the Crusades — «not the proudest moment in Christian history but nor were they the childish caricature of modern Western guilt and certainly not that of contemporary Muslim paranoia» — he goes into some detail to describe not only the background and the geopolitical state of things, but also the realities of human behaviour, both good and bad.

Modern - day cannibalism is fascinating because it is widely seen as an extreme anomaly of human behaviour — either a last - ditch bid to survive or a sick crime perpetrated by a madman.

This supports the theory first advanced several years ago that the arrival of early modern humans in Europe may have stimulated the Neanderthals into copying aspects of their symbolic behaviour in the millennia before they disappeared.

Scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt together with dental technicians have digitally analysed modern human teeth using an engineering approach, finite element method, to evaluate the biomechanical behaviour of teeth under realistic loading.

Instead of making unrealistically simplistic assumptions about human behaviour and the properties of markets, we can harness the number - crunching power of modern computing, coupled with our emerging understanding of the physics of complex systems, to rebuild economic theory from the bottom up.

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.

While these near - eastern humans were anatomically modern, they did not show modern behaviour, he says.

The oldest DNA of a modern human ever to be sequenced shows that the Homo sapiens who interbred with the Neanderthals were very modern — not just anatomically but with modern behaviour including painting, modern tools, music and jewellery.

Using novel analytical techniques, they have demonstrated that these H. erectus footprints preserve evidence of a modern human style of walking and a group structure that is consistent with human - like social behaviours.

Habitual bipedal locomotion is a defining feature of modern humans compared with other primates, and the evolution of this behaviour in our clade would have had profound effects on the biologies of our fossil ancestors and relatives.

The oldest DNA of a modern human ever to be sequenced shows that the Homo sapiens that interbred with the Neanderthals were very modern — not just anatomically but with modern behaviour including painting, modern tools, music and jewellery.

Steele said the findings support the idea that Middle Stone Age began just over 300,000 years ago, and that important changes in modern human biology and behaviour were taking place across most of Africa then.

If, as many researchers believe, early modern humans replaced the Neanderthals in Western Asia and Europe between 45 000 and 30 000 years ago, rather than evolved from them, the Levantine early moderns should show signs of «human» social and cultural behaviour distinct from that of the Neanderthals.

«It is fascinating that these same brain networks today allow modern humans to perform such behaviours as skilfully playing a musical instrument.»

They are solved by the most modern theories and models of human behaviour in the broader context of development, population, technology, agricultural production and environmental conservation and restoration.