Sentences with phrase «more ancient ancestors»

Unexpected sophistication is also turning up among our even more ancient ancestors.

Using information from fossils, and the DNA of living species, we were able to further determine that at around 24 million years old, Palaeopotorous is not just primitive, but likely represents the most distant forerunner of all known kangaroos, rat - kangaroos and their more ancient ancestors,» said Dr den Boer.

Not exact matches

Their braincase (shown below in blue) also seemed to fall somewhere between what one might expect in an ancient human ancestor and a modern human, albeit slightly more similar to those of our archaic ancestors.

This is where human morality originated as even the burried remains show that our ancient ancestors cared for those in their social groups and cave paintings show that knowledge was being passed down from one generation to the next more than 45,000 years ago.

Considering this, it's important to remember that dates are actually seasonal — they weren't around all year around in every corner shop for our ancient ancestors and even more recently were more to just a Christmas treat.

Also, commenting on Paleo diet, I'm not sure just what it is, except that it's a diet of what some people think that our ancient ancestors ate ten thousand or more years ago.

They stem from the idea that evolution makes minuscule changes over millions of years, so we haven't had enough time to adapt to the modern industrial world — and that we would be healthier and happier if we lived more like our ancient ancestors.

Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

This ancient individual had small front teeth like a modern human but larger molars like a more primitive human ancestor.

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«All the questions we have about ancient evolutionary events — what our last common ancestor looked like, when methane metabolism arose, when oxygen - producing organisms evolved — they really benefit from having more genomes to look at and a more detailed tree,» says Parks.

Using ancient and modern genome - wide data, we find that the ancestors of all present - day Native Americans, including Athabascans and Amerindians, entered the Americas as a single migration wave from Siberia no earlier than 23 thousand years ago (KYA), and after no more than 8,000 - year isolation period in Beringia.

The work finds that today's pooches are more closely related to ancient canids than to modern wolves, indicating that the dog's wolf ancestor no longer exists.

Genetic analysis reveals that two types of «seaweed,» Verdigellas and Palmphyllum, are ancient forms of Green Algae that diverged around a billion years ago from the ancestors of all green «plants» (more).

Spores of ancient liverworts from 473 to 471 million years ago support the hypothesis that these primitive plants are probably the ancestors of all modern plants (more).

Since ancient populations of African wild ass were ancestors of donkeys, she wanted to learn more about the behavior of African wild asses to inform her work on domestication.

As she began researching the foods that would most naturally support her body's functions and support her mitochondria, Dr. Wahls developed a diet that restored her health and vitality — learning from our ancient ancestors, who knew more about health than we appear to.

(2) If you've not ever eaten ancient grains or have not eaten them for many years, depending on your age, and as did our ancestors, you are more than likely one of those who had the misfortune to eat only grains that have been hybridized and or grown with chemical and pesticides, and you possibly no longer have the enzymes to digest even ancient grains.

Ancient human diets, like those of our fellow great apes, largely consisted of plants, so they likely produced more base than acid in the kidneys of our ancestors.

The English Bulldog that we know today shares very little in common with its ancient ancestor, the Bulldog, which was a taller dog that looked more like a Mastiff.

In dogs, the term breed is used two ways: loosely, to refer to dog types or landraces of dog (also called natural breeds or ancient breeds); or more precisely, to refer to modern breeds of dog, which are documented so as to be known to be descended from specific ancestors, that closely resemble others of their breed in appearance, movement, way of working and other characters; and that reproduce with offspring closely resembling each other and their parents.

Many travellers no longer want a simple beach holiday, instead they want to be inspired — to see some of the wonders of the ancient world, explore a culture's past, and find out a bit more about their ancestors and themselves.

Treading the paths of the Incas and their ancestors, the ancient allure of Machu Picchu and Sacred Valley meet the buzz and bustle of Lima and Cusco in time spent... Read More

I now await certain greenies to proclaim this is wrong because we certainly do not need any more of the agri - industrial complex that invariably destroys the environment and sickens the planet, the only cure is to return to the peaceful hunter - gatherer lifestyle of our ancient ancestors who lived in harmony with Mother Nature consuming only freely - available renewable resources... Whether they honestly word it that way or not.