Sentences with phrase «modern humans were probably»

Neandertals and modern humans were probably like passing strangers, Pinhasi says.

A new radiocarbon dating study of a Neandertal site in Russia concludes that the latter scenario is most likely, and that Neandertals and modern humans were probably like ships in the night.

Not exact matches

Maybe you have some deep understanding of the nature of the universe that the normal human does not... or you are just a typical modern day sheep following what you have faith in but probably don't undertsand.

«According to our analysis of the skull, which bears a complex mix of archaic and modern characteristics, this was probably the only place on earth where Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans lived side by side for a long period of time.»

Because if some genius Neandertal invents a new kind of hand axe — and they used the same kind for so long, for tens and tens [of] thousands of years — but if somebody in the cave invents a new one, it's not going to spread beyond that cave probably, it might not even spread that much within the cave; it's [likely] to die with him; whereas the modern humans have this thing of watching each other and teaching other and spreading things among themselves among one another, so that 10,000 or so --[it] might have been a few more, I know that the people are not too clear about that might — there might only have been 10,000 Neandertals all over Europe.

Although H. pylori probably arose in Africa and was carried by modern humans as they settled around the world, it has been a mystery how different types of the microbe spread globally and how they are related to each other.

The modern toilet has probably added a decade to the human life span (and was voted the biggest medical advance of the last two centuries by the readers of the British Medical Journal).

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.

From this study [subscription required], Zollikofer concludes that Neanderthal mothers may have had their first child, on average, when they were a year or two older than modern humans and that their time between pregnancies was probably longer.

«This study provides indirect support to the idea that Middle Palaeolithic Hominins, probably Neandertals, were able to consume fish when it was available, and that therefore, the prey choice of Neandertals and modern humans was not fundamentally different,» says Hervé Bocherens.

Based on sketchy fossil evidence, some anthropologists argue that Neanderthals could make limited vocalizations but that they lacked the full range of modern humans; in particular, they were probably limited in the vowel sounds they could produce.

So even though male Neandertals and female modern humans probably hooked up more than once over the ages, they may have been unable to produce many healthy male babies (such as the reconstruction of this Neandertal boy from fossils from Gibraltar)-- and, thus, hastened the extinction of Neandertals.

This idea of inevitability runs deep in our societal assumptions, probably because it's comforting — a picture of a single, forward trajectory, ending in modern humans as the crown of creation.

But two new papers suggest that they were at home on both the land and the sea: Studies of ancient and modern human DNA, including the first reported ancient DNA from early Middle Eastern farmers, indicate that agriculture spread to Europe via a coastal route, probably by farmers using boats to island hop across the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

So they are actually highly evolved humans, but equally they are not the same as us and so Carlton Koons» classic thing was, if you took a Neandertal and washed and dressed him with modern clothes, put him on the NYC subway and no one will bat an eyelid, and as I said yesterday, [that] probably says more about the NYC subway maybe than it says about Neandertals.

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.

The haplogroup was probably beneficial enough to spread quickly in modern human populations, says Lahn.

And based on the fact that these ancient human bones were found in Morocco — nowhere near the «Garden of Eden» in East Africa where we've long assumed modern humans evolved, and from which they dispersed — it also means that our origins are probably much more complicated than we assumed, geographically speaking.

Creationists interpret this to mean that it was the skull of a modern human; in fact, Bowden (1981) thinks it «probably the most convincing evidence» of this.

This forensic facial reconstruction, however, suggests that if a Cro - Magnon human were dressed in modern clothing, he could probably pass for a rather hairy regular guy.

The museum website concedes that «Neanderthals were probably less brutish and more like modern humans than commonly portrayed,» and that they were, «sophisticated toolmakers and even prepared animal hides, which they used as clothing.»

The Turkana Boy Homo erectus skeleton belonged to a tall young boy who would probably have grown to around 182 cm (6 feet) in height, but his estimated adult brain size was only 910 cm3, about the size of a 3 or 4 year old modern human child.

It is probably at this point that the greatest breakdown in our modern diet takes place, namely, in the ingestion and utilization of adequate amounts of the special activating substances, including the vitamins [A, D and K2] needed for rendering the minerals in the food available to the human system.

I pause given WHO labeling glyphosate as «probably carcinogenic to humans» and the Seneff, MIT 2013 paper, Glyphosate's Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases, and the Seneff PowerPoint, Roundup, Is there an Elephant in the Room?

In fact, Neanderthals had a rich protein diet, like modern humans (1), and that's probably why they disappeared of the surface of the Earth.

For modern humans whose population numbers are dependent on maintaining efficient agriculture, it is the decade - long transition that is so catastrophic (given a slow temperature transition over a 500 year period, we could probably cope).