Sentences with phrase «modern human biology»

Feb. 11, 2016 — The first study that directly compares Neanderthal DNA in the genomes of a significant population of adults of European ancestry with their clinical records confirms that this archaic genetic legacy has a subtle but significant impact on modern human biology.

In one of the first studies to directly compare the medical records of a large number of adults with their Neanderthal - derived DNA, researchers have confirmed that Neandertal genes have a subtle but significant impact on modern human biology.

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.

The scientists discovered that this archaic genetic legacy has had a subtle but significant impact on modern human biology, they said.

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One could cite many possible causes: modern biology led some to question the possibility that the human brain could ever «contain» such an unimaginable breadth of knowledge; or more commonly, many theologians argued that Christ's genuine humanity is somehow undermined if he shares in the Father's own self - knowledge.

Modern scientific disciplines such as biology, psychology and medical science have started to study the effects of empathy on the human mind and body, on our health and relationships.

That is, I believe, bad philosophy — and incompatible with the basic principles of our civilization and polity; but at least it does not rely on denying basic facts known to anyone who has taken the trouble to acquaint himself or herself with modern human embryology and developmental biology.

Modern mothers were discouraged from breastfeeding, and given the impression bottle feeding represented the next stage in human evolution in which they would no longer be controlled by biology.

One standout chapter discusses how scientists might unravel the evolution of language — linguists turn out to be almost as disputatious as paleontologists — and another speculates on how natural selection might have shaped human biology in modern times.

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.

Instead, we should harness the power of modern molecular biology to establish whether BPA at everyday exposure levels is biologically active in humans.

In this course we will learn how algorithms, databases and popular software tools are used to answer these and many other questions in modern clinical genomic biology as well as applying them to real world whole human genomes experimental datasets for understanding and interpretation.

Research interests: Hominin evolution, human skeletal biology, dental anthropology, comparative morphology, dispersal and cultural adaptations of modern humans

Articles and reports from the Life Sciences area deal with applied and basic research into modern biology, chemistry and human medicine.

«If we use relative brain size as a metric of «intelligence» then one would have to conclude that dolphins are second in intelligence to modern humans,» Lori Marino, Lori Marino, a senior lecturer in neuroscience and behavioral biology at Emory University, told Discovery News.

IntegBio 35AC is a large lecture (300 students), lower division, non-majors biology class that addresses modern human biological variation from historical, comparative, evolutionary, biomedical, and cultural perspectives.

At the time of this event, Doug was a student of evolutionary biology, and he became curious why modern humans were not developing — physically and mentally — with the same ease as their early human predecessors.

Many of these schools use Christian - based textbooks that fail to teach students about modern advances in biology and genetics, misstate the theory of evolution and even make the claim that dinosaurs and humans once co-habited the Earth.

He combines the disciplines of anthropology, biology, architecture, engineering, agriculture, and ecology to address modern challenges of providing for human needs while maintaining ecosystem health.

Weaving together insights from evolutionary biology, modern neuroscience, positive psychology, and mindfulness practices, neuropsychologist Rick Hanson claims the difficulty at the core of human experience is our perpetual struggle to overcome the negativity bias wired into our brains.