Sentences with phrase «new early modern human»

OH 83: A new early modern human fossil cranium from the Ndutu Beds of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

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In the early modern period, political thinkers formulated a new conception of natural law, whose distinctive character has defined a distinctively modern tradition of thought about natural or human rights.

A new, slightly morbid study based on the calorie counts of average humans suggests that human - eating was mostly ritualistic, not dietary, in nature among hominins including Homo erectus, H. antecessor, Neandertals, and early modern humans.

Rapid climate change during the Middle Stone Age, between 80,000 and 40,000 years ago, during the Middle Stone Age, sparked surges in cultural innovation in early modern human populations, according to new research.

Groups related to modern humans — including Homo erectus and the Neanderthals — trekked out of Africa considerably earlier, but the new analysis suggests they did so naked.

In addition to being the oldest known example of an early primate skeleton, the new fossil is crucial in elucidating a pivotal event in primate and human evolution — the evolutionary divergence that led to modern monkeys, apes and humans (collectively known as anthropoids) on one branch, and to living tarsiers on the other.

«The new timing rules out earlier modern humans in the Middle East [from participating] in the admixture,» says Janet Kelso from the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, one of the lead researchers on the project.

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.

A large international research team, led by Israel Hershkovitz from Tel Aviv University and including Rolf Quam from Binghamton University, State University of New York, has discovered the earliest modern human fossil ever found outside of Africa.

The new glimpse of the footpaths of animals and humans complement earlier studies that reveal the anatomy and behavior of H. erectus, suggesting that as it evolved modern body proportions, it also increased its home range and began competing with carnivores for carcasses on the savanna, says Harris.

One study argues that an earlier wave of modern humans contributed traces to the genomes of living people from Papua New Guinea.

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 anew 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 aNew Guinea comes from an early dispersal of modern humans, who left Africa perhaps 120,000 years ago.

«This new timing rules out earlier modern humans in the Middle East [from participating] in the admixture,» says Janet Kelso from the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, one of the lead researchers on the project.

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.

The dates, based on new excavations and state - of - the - art methods, push back the earliest solid evidence for humans in Australia by 10,000 to 20,000 years and suggest that modern humans left Africa earlier than had been thought.

«This is exciting because we now have a proven resource that could finally bring definitive answers to fundamental questions about the early movements and conditions of human populations — and new information about the importance of vitamin D for modern populations,» says McMaster anthropologist Megan Brickley, lead author of the paper and Canada Research Chair in the Bioarchaeology of Human Dishuman populations — and new information about the importance of vitamin D for modern populations,» says McMaster anthropologist Megan Brickley, lead author of the paper and Canada Research Chair in the Bioarchaeology of Human DisHuman Disease.

Although it was just about possible to dismiss A. sediba, with its assortment of ancient and modern features, as a quirk of human evolution, the new find hints that such «mosaicism» is not the exception in early humans but the rule, says Berger.

A new study debunks the idea that a diminutive early human species knick - named the «hobbits» of Indonesia were closely linked to an ancestor of modern humans.

New discoveries show modern humans have likely dispersed into the Asian continent 60,000 years earlier than previously thought.

A new study, which was published in the journal Science on Dec. 8, suggests that new discoveries made over recent years show that modern humans may have originated from several migrations from Africa, which started as early as 120,000 years ago, or 60,000 years earlier than previous estimates.

Neanderthals were brainier than modern humans, and new research helps to explain how these early hominids evolved so much brain power.

NEW YORK — The skull of a newly discovered 325 - million - year - old shark - like species suggests that early cartilaginous and bony fishes have more to tell us about the early evolution of jawed vertebrates — including humans — than do modern sharks, as was previously thought.

Similar in size and weight to a modern human, and with humanlike hands and feet, the new species has a braincase more similar in size to earlier ancestors living two million to four million years ago, as well as shoulders, pelvis, and ribcage more closely resembling earlier hominins than modern humans.