Sentences with phrase «modern humans came»

But in Western Europe, I think it was a combination of the arrival of people with superior technology and climate change so the Neandertals were doubly unlucky, because at the time modern humans came into Europe, the climate of Europe was extremely unstable.

But of course, modern humans and Neandertals range much more widely than that, so when modern humans came out of Africa might be 50,000 years ago, 55,000 to 60,000 years ago, they would actually probably encountered Neandertals in Western Asia and as they moved eastwards and on to southern Asia, they may have encountered Neandertals in Uzbekistan and Siberia, so actually it probably was quite a wide - ranging process.

Analysis of DNA from mitochondria, above, and from the Y chromosome helps track where modern humans came from.

And so they appear to refute the idea that modern humans came out of Africa, spread around the world, and completely replaced the archaic humans they met.

Neandertals arose in Europe and Asia as early as 250,000 years ago, and for most of that time they had Eurasia to themselves — until, that is, modern humans came in and replaced them.

«We thought if we did interbreed, it might have been when modern humans came to Europe, about 30,000 to 40,000 years ago,» Pääbo says.

The latest species of extinct hominin to be discovered that promised to rewrite our history may have died out as modern humans came about

Not exact matches

Each chapter comes with a lengthy rumination on the different ways humans prepare food, and how, in Pollan's view, those age - old methods have been corrupted by the modern, corporate food chain.

Fiber optics technology is a marvel of human ingenuity, not to mention physics and design, and with it comes high - capacity digital communications for a modern age.

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

I do find it puzzling, however, to watch theologians, both conservative and liberal, come to the defense of the human, the rational, objectivity, the «text,» «moral values,» science, and all the other conceits the modern university cherishes in the name of «humanism.»

A modern banana, an ant, a bumble bee, a monkey (the ones you think we came from), and the human brain (among a million other things created) disprove the theory of evolution in just one sentence worth of their description.

In addition to the expected human drama that comes along with any reality gameshow, the StartupBus is also a fascinating look at a modern pathway to (relative, at least) fame in a culture obsessed with celebrity.

If you hold that no human death came before sinfulness, then it depends on what you call human (there is a gradation of forms leading up to the modern human skeleton in the fossil record, as well as the overwhelming genetic evidence that we arose through an evolutionary process) and what you consider sin (i.e. when did we become accountable to God for our actions?).

The Darwinian metaphor of evolution was used to express a faith in a Historical future, in either the coming end of History (Marx) or a more indefinite perfectibility in which our alienating technological progress would finally be ennobled by a corresponding moral progress (say, John Stuart Mill or Walt Whitman) that would be the source of the elusive human happiness promised by modern liberation.

Arising out of what I have said, the diagram at the end of this chapter represents the state of tension which has come to exist more or less consciously in every human heart as a result of the seeming conflict between the modern forward impulse (OX), induced in us all by the newly - born force of trans - hominization, and the traditional upward impulse of religious worship (OY).

To teach, as some writers have, that we must accept the «insight» of modern Evolutionists, as true beyond reasonable doubt, that humans came into existence in various places at differing times (so - called «Polyphyletism») is to compromise the Church's infallible teaching that there was one first man (Adam) and one first woman (Eve) from whom we all descend.

My own lecture was titled «The Right to Belong Where I Come From,» and dealt with the importance of home in the human imagination, the struggle against placelessness in modern culture, and the cultural forces that come to bear on the human consciousness to weaken attachments between person and home plCome From,» and dealt with the importance of home in the human imagination, the struggle against placelessness in modern culture, and the cultural forces that come to bear on the human consciousness to weaken attachments between person and home plcome to bear on the human consciousness to weaken attachments between person and home place.

How can anyone witness this ape - $ h + reaction in the Middle East and not come to the conclusion that modern humans are descended from earlier forms of primates?

This idea came into its own in the modern period, when Bacon declared the world the arena for human satisfaction and flourishing, and thus brought a missionary zeal to the program of scientific experimentation and technological innovation.

Pope Paul VI called the Church «expert in humanity» when it came to underscoring the dignity of the human person in the modern world.

Now comes along Steven Pinker, a psychologist of language at M.I.T., with a new book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Viking).

The striking works of Pratt, India and Its Faiths (1915) and A Pilgrimage of Buddhism (1928) did much to make these religions come alive for the first time for many Western readers; for Pratt had a gift not only of brilliance but of extraordinary human sympathy.10 These are clear instances of the increasing mobility of modern man: each book was written as the result of travel in the East.

The Sumerians believed that beings came from the sky and mixed their genetic DNA with apes to produce the modern day human beings.

In this age of rapid change, and with our modern understanding of the human condition, we can see how much alters in a person's lifetime; we must remain open to what may come, and free to respond to new circumstances.

The cranium came from a modern human linked to the jaw of an orangutan.

SHELL GAME A geometric design carved into this shell may indicate that human ancestors took up at least one form of «modern human behavior» long before Homo sapiens came along.

It is interesting that the most similar skulls in our sample come from recent Africans on the one hand, and on the other hand from those modern humans that lived in Europe between 20 - 30,000 years ago as, for instance,... [in one location] in the Czech Republic.»

«In the coming decades both modern day climate change and other human activities will have a profound impact on our ecosystem.

«To me, one of the most exciting discoveries to come out of that analysis [of the Neandertal genome] was that there was admixture between modern humans and Neandertals.

Researchers sequencing Neandertal DNA have concluded that between 1 and 4 percent of the DNA of people today who live outside Africa came from Neandertals, the result of interbreeding between Neandertals and early modern humans.

Sequencing technology has advanced so far that, these days, fresh evolutionary insights do not necessarily require any fossils at all: Within our DNA, we modern humans provide a genomic window onto what came before.

Looking at indicators of population size and density (such as the number of stone tools, animal remains, and total number of sites), he concluded that modern humans — who may have had a population of only a few thousand when they first arrived on the continent — came to outnumber the Neanderthals by a factor of ten to one.

THE mutant gene that causes cystic fibrosis came to Europe with the first modern humans, more than 50 000 years ago, claims an evolutionary biologist.

For Neandertal genomics to come into its own, however, Pääbo, Rubin, and others must demonstrate that their sequences are real and not a mosaic of errors due to degradation that occurs as DNA ages, sequencing mistakes, or contamination from modern humans who have handled the fossils, says genomicist Stephan Schuster of Pennsylvania State University in State College.

The bone tools suggest that rather than cropping up and then sticking around, «modern human behavior and innovation can come and go.»

«There is a tidal wave of studies coming out now on Australian and Asian genomes and they're all concluding the same thing — there was a single out — of - Africa movement of modern humans,» says Cooper.

We're getting an idea of what comes later when modern humans became so flexible that they could exploit almost any environment,» she says.

Tendencies that have come to define modern Western societies include the existence of political pluralism, prominent subcultures or countercultures (such as New Age movements), and increasing cultural syncretism — resulting from globalization and human migration.

The team infected mice with the 1918 virus, a modern human flu strain, and hybrids of the two in which either two or five of influenza's eight genes came from the 1918 virus.

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Analyzing 379 new genomes from 125 populations worldwide, the group concludes that at least 2 % of the genomes of people from Papua New Guinea comes from an early dispersal of modern humans, who left Africa perhaps 120,000 years ago.

«We are now starting to look to see if there are genes in Neanderthals that came from modern humans.»

While only 6 per cent of the non-African modern human genome comes from other hominins, the share of HLAs acquired during interbreeding is much higher.

When it comes to human evolution, Europe and the Near East are crucial places: Europe has the first cave art, and the Near East has the first sightings of modern humans out of Africa, for example.

Although many other developments and technologies have come along to help us reproduce almost like rabbits, Laland argues that «if it were the case that humans were adapted to environments in the Pleistocene [epoch ending more than 10,000 years ago] but not the Holocene [modern era, which followed], you would expect human populations would have shrunk when they moved into urban environments.»

And I think that the reason why the Neandertals went extinct is it's certainly not the simple thing that we thought even 10 years ago; you know, I think, I would have said, well, yeah, moderns came in and Neandertals just very quickly just conceded, they were inferior, modern humans was superior technologically and the Neandertals just went under very quickly.

Martin Kuhlwilm, co-first author of the new paper, identified the regions of the Altai Neanderthal genome that come from modern humans.

Since fossils in general, and dinosaur fossils in particular, are rare and very different from modern animals, it's lucky that humans came wired to spot the unusual, and collect the oddities that resembled ancient life forms long before there was a subject called palaeontology.

The man's lactose intolerance is the one thing that was not surprising, since a hunter - gatherer would not drink milk beyond infancy — just like other mammals and all modern humans with the exception of those who come from milk - drinking cultures, Carles Lalueza - Fox explained.