Sentences with phrase «modern humans emerged»

As the genetic data in the study comprise the deepest divergence among now living humans, the researchers developed a novel method to examine what genetic changes were underway when modern humans emerged more than 100 000 years ago.

The conclusions drawn states that modern humans emerged earlier than previously thought.

The panin line continued on to the modern chimpanzee, and the hominid line evolved through a number of forms until modern humans emerged on the scene.

It showed their evolutionary line splitting off from our own a little over 550,000 years ago, before modern humans emerged and before key changes in human brain evolution.

«Modern humans emerged more than 300,000 years ago new study suggests.»

«This means that modern humans emerged earlier than previously thought,» says Mattias Jakobsson, population geneticist at Uppsala University who headed the project together with Stone Age archaeologist Marlize Lombard at the University of Johannesburg.

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I don't consider myself «postmodern» or «emerging» but most of the postmodern / emerging philosophy and theology I have read is a reaction against a modern philosophy and theology which overemphasized «the many» (the human ability to figure things out on our own), and as a result, is not too humanistic, but is almost excessively spiritual.

Modern American evangelicalism emerged in the late 19th century, built around biblical literalism and an emphasis on human sin and redemption.

What we know of biological evolution suggests that modern human subjectivity emerged very gradually over a long period of time out of simpler forms of subjectivity.

We should, therefore, not be under the illusion that when anatomically modern human beings emerged 100,000 or so years ago, after millions of years of evolutionary change, they ceased to be influenced significantly by their evolutionary past.

The dynamics of modern «secular culture» have their roots in a concept of humanism derived from the Christian gospel but that because of the failure of the churches to respond positively to the values that emerged in Christian culture as implication of Christian humanism, they were sought to be realized in human history under the dynamic of «secularist ideologies of humanism» in opposition to the Christian faith.

«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression is that interbreeding with archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.

But within days skeptics emerged, countering that the tiny remains instead belonged to a small - bodied population of modern humans and that LB1 — with her tiny brain and other odd features — was a diseased member of the group.

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.

DEEP PAST A new comparison of ancient and modern human DNA concludes that Homo sapiens emerged earlier than typically thought, perhaps around 350,000 years ago.

The researchers suggest that modern humans had begun to emerge — literally face - first — at this time.

By using highly advanced brain imaging technology to observe modern humans crafting ancient tools, an Indiana University neuroarchaeologist has found evidence that human - like ways of thinking may have emerged as early as 1.8 million years ago.

Neanderthals are thought to have emerged a few hundred thousand years ago and were eventually replaced by modern humans.

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 world.

The study follows a paper published earlier this year by Professor Paabo and colleagues that showed there was interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals as they emerged from Africa 60,000 years ago.

The emerging new model, outlined in the journal Science by Petraglia and his team, shows that there were multiple dispersals of modern humans out of Africa, beginning at least 120,000 years ago.

Significant epidemiological and clinical evidence has emerged that suggests AD belongs among the «diseases of civilization,» primarily caused by modern Western diets and lifestyles at odds with human physiology.

Fast emerging as one of modern cinema's foremost provocateurs, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn blends visceral genre thrills with a seductively cold vision of human dysfunction.

The film for which the late director, perhaps the greatest of all modern artists, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, it attracted strongly divided critical responses and has emerged as one of his most definitive works, an immensely contemplative work on suicide and the human condition that takes place, as with many of Kiarostami's works, mostly over a series of car rides.

The modern human being is a vertebrate animal, mammal, belonging to the primates, which emerged 200,000 years ago.

Autistica, the UK's leading autism research charity and Mehta Bell Projects, are pleased to announce «An Infinitely Beautiful Mind», a charity art sale and exhibition which will present the works of artists ranging from modern masters, contemporary and emerging talents through to outsider art, whose work share the desire to represent the human experience through highly detailed and laborious artistic techniques.

Basically everything that we think of as «modern human civilization» — permanent agriculture, continuously occupied cities, free WiFi — has emerged since the last ice age ended roughly 11,000 years ago.

A public event on artificial intelligence and modern conflict organized by the conference saw common views emerge from different perspectives against weapons that, once activated, could identify, select and attack targets without further human intervention.