Sentences with phrase «modern human diversity»

«In particular, these data reduce the likelihood that Neanderthals contained enough mtDNA sequence diversity to encompass modern human diversity» (Ovchinnikov et al. 2000)

Recent research concerns morphological and phylogenetic aspects of modern human diversity, based on analysis of recent and fossil skeletal material.

Not exact matches

Diversity and inclusion are a big part of modern human resources practices.

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).

«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

This image shows diversity in premolar and molar morphology in Neanderthals, modern humans and potential ancestral species.

We find that mtDNA genetic diversity in Neandertals that lived 38,000 to 70,000 years ago was approximately one - third of that in contemporary modern humans.

One hypothesis suggests that Neandertals were rigid in their dietary choice, targeting large herbivorous mammals, such as horse, bison and mammoths, while modern humans also exploited a wider diversity of dietary resources, including fish.

The team confirms that the Denisovans interbred with the ancestors of some living humans and found that Denisovans had little genetic diversity, suggesting that their small population waned further as populations of modern humans expanded.

Now, evolutionary geneticists have shown that our ancestors lost much of their genetic diversity in two dramatic bottlenecks that sharply squeezed down the population of modern humans as they moved out of Africa between 60,000 and 50,000 years ago.

We observed that East African populations exhibit a much larger degree of genetic diversity than other global groups, which further supports the Out - of - Africa theory (that postulates that modern humans originated in East Africa and migrated out of the continent to populate the world)» says Dr. Koehler.

«This greater genetic diversity in Africa has long been considered part of the justification to consider Africa as having a longer history for modern humans than Asia,» Bae said.

Seielstad M, Bekele E, Ibrahim M, Toure A, and Traore M (1999) Y chromosome microsattelite diversity and a recent African origin for modern humans, Genome Resaerch, 9, 558 - 67.

Seielstad M, Bekele E, Ibrahim M, Toure A, and Traore M (1999) Y chromosome microsattelite diversity and a recent African origin for modern humans, Genome Resaerch.

The studies describe genetic diversity from typically understudied regions and together provide new insight into the migration of modern humans out of Africa.

Like modern humans, Neandertals had low genetic diversity compared to apes.

The healthy flora in our guts and vaginas are under constant attack in our modern life, so much so that average Americans have 50 % less gut bacteria diversity than humans who don't live in our fast - paced western world.

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The integrity of this approach consists primarily in the diversity of its modern artistic vision, ranging from the conceptual geometry of the universal communications of Peter Halley to the integral paraphrases of Archimboldo in the energetic baroque images of Vik Muniz, and from the paradoxical clones of Tony Matelli to the idealized human constructions of Antony Gormley.

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