Sentences with phrase «most modern human populations»

This is supported by anthropological data showing that most modern human populations engage in polygynous marriage.

Not exact matches

While it is widely accepted that the origins of modern humans date back some 200,000 years to Africa, there has been furious debate as to which model of early Homo sapiens migration most plausibly led to the population of the planet — and the eventual extinction of Neanderthals.

Denisovans, Neanderthals and modern humans descend from the same population of ancestors, who most likely lived in Africa between 550,000 and 765,000 years ago.

Studies show that the San carry some of the most divergent (oldest) Y - chromosome haplogroups, specific sub-groups of A and B, the two earliest branches on the human Y - chromosome tree, suggesting they may be descendents of a population ancestral to all modern humans.

Furthermore, studies have demonstrated that modern human variation is generally continuous, rather than discrete or «racial,» and that most variation in modern humans is within, rather than between, populations [11], [17].

They are solved by the most modern theories and models of human behaviour in the broader context of development, population, technology, agricultural production and environmental conservation and restoration.