Sentences with phrase «of ancestral human»

Yet no one wants to properly fund Repatriation of ancestral human remains or even properly support the concept of repatriation of cultural property.

Federally recognized Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations can request the return of ancestral human remains and certain cultural items from federal agencies, museums, and other organizations that have received federal funds.

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(The other major difference we have with Dr. Cordain is his exclusion of starchy foods from a «Paleo» diet, even though starchy tubers have been part of the ancestral human diet for 4 million years.

Perhaps H. sapiens evolved out of ancestral human populations that inhabited this larger region encompassing Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

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122:1.1 Joseph, the human father of Jesus (Joshua ben Joseph), was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, albeit he carried many non-Jewish racial strains which had been added to his ancestral tree from time to time by the female lines of his progenitors.

«We conclude that the locus cloned in cosmids c8.1 and c29B is the relic of an ancient telomeretelomere fusion and marks the point at which two ancestral ape chromosomes fused to give rise to human chromosome 2.»

We saw, for example, that human chromosome 2 was a fusion of two ancestral chromosomes, chromosomes that are still separate in chimpanzees, and we can even see the useless remnants of teleomeres and centromeres from the ancestral chromosomes.

The magnitude of which spun off trilobites which turned into monkey's, which started marking tools out of sticks, and eventually taught themselves how to shave and cure their ancestral scoliosis and turn into humans.

Of the thousands of ancestral variants reintroduced into modern humans, only 41 have been linked in genetic studies to diseases, such as skin conditions and neurological and psychiatric disorders, he saiOf the thousands of ancestral variants reintroduced into modern humans, only 41 have been linked in genetic studies to diseases, such as skin conditions and neurological and psychiatric disorders, he saiof ancestral variants reintroduced into modern humans, only 41 have been linked in genetic studies to diseases, such as skin conditions and neurological and psychiatric disorders, he said.

The coprolites» exquisite preservation allowed the scientists to make the first confirmation of an ancestral, distinctly human microbiome, dating back to about A.D. 700.

The scientists argue that the jump in the frequency of burnt flints represents the time when ancestral humans learned to control fire, either by kindling it or by keeping it burning between natural wildfires.

A few researchers have argued that ancestral humans did not regularly control fire until more recently, and others, such as Richard Wrangham of Harvard University, think that our ancestors mastered fire much earlier.

Comparisons of the Neandertal genome to the genomes of five present - day humans from different parts of the world identify a number of genomic regions that may have been affected by positive selection in ancestral modern humans, including genes involved in metabolism and in cognitive and skeletal development.

With global increase in obesity and diet - related metabolic diseases, interest has intensified in ancestral or «Palaeolithic» diets, not least because — to a first order of approximation — human physiology should be optimized for the nutritional profiles we have experienced during our evolution.

The data are «very compelling that Neandertals bring back some of the lost ancestral variance,» of modern humans, said geneticist Mait Metspalu of the Estonian Biocentre in Tartu, who heard the talks.

Each can serve as a useful tool for determining ancestral relationships because they don't undergo the shuffling and swapping of genetic material that occurs routinely in most human chromosomes.

Having just concluded perhaps the first formal (i.e., well - controlled) ethological analysis of rough - and - tumble play in the human species in the late 1990s, where laughter was an abundant response, I had the «insight» (perhaps delusion) that our 50 - kHz chirping response in playing rats might have some ancestral relationship to human laughter.

Accordingly, we feel justified in cautiously advancing and empirically cultivating the theoretical possibility that there is some kind of an ancestral relationship between the playful chirps of juvenile rats and infantile human laughter.

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.

Using the large dataset of present - day and ancient human data, the researchers were able to calculate the proportion of the ancestral components in present - day Europeans.

An adolescent orangutan called Rocky could provide the key to understanding how speech in humans evolved from the time of the ancestral great apes, according to new research.

The massive analysis of human, chimpanzee, and monkey tissue published Nov. 23 in the journal Science shows that the human brain is not only a larger version of the ancestral primate brain but also one filled with distinct and surprising differences.

Even though early human - like species were present at the same time as the ancestors of some present day great apes, the researchers found that the evolutionary history of ancestral great ape populations was far more complex than that of humans.

When transplanted into human cells in the laboratory, the mammoth TRPV3 gene produced a protein that is less responsive to heat than an ancestral elephant version of the gene.

Many evolutionary psychologists believe that the cognitive and emotional makeup of human beings represents an adaptation to our ancestral environment.

The theory: Millions of years ago, an ancient human ancestor contracted a retrovirus that inserted its DNA into the host's reproductive germ cells, passing the viral DNA down the ancestral line.

What's more, they claim, the ear tubes present strong evidence that it's an evolutionary cousin to the ancestral line of apes from which humans and living apes derive.

My view is that great variability in our ancestral environment was the big challenge of human evolution.

Warinner and colleague, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., co-direct OU's Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in the past.

It is surprising to find that a single gene (ESRP), through its ancestral biological role (cell adherence and motility) has been used throughout the animal scale for very different purposes: from the immune system of an echinoderm to the lips, lungs or inner ears of humans,» states professor Jordi Garcia - Fernàndez, of the University of Barcelona's Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics and the IBUB.

«Our discovery confirms a very old natural history for the mechanisms underlying this self - preservation emotion, at least to the last common ancestor of flies and humans,» says Claridge - Chang, noting that this ancestral species swam in the oceans around 700 million years ago.

Humans go back to the Pleistocene [about 2.5 million years ago], but the emotional part of the brain goes back much further, all the way to the time when ancestral mammals evolved away from reptiles.

These differences suggest that the ancestral population of apes that gave rise to humans, chimps, and bonobos was quite large and diverse genetically — numbering about 27,000 breeding individuals.

The groups that evolved into bonobos, chimps, and humans all retained slightly different subsets of this ancestral population's diverse gene pool — and those differences now offer clues today to the size and range of diversity in that ancestral group.

Some evolutionary theorists, including Desmond Morris, maintain that human female orgasm was adaptive because it helped cement the «pair - bond» between ancestral parents that was necessary to ensure the survival of vulnerable infants.

Paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London agrees that the Sima fossils are ancestral only to Neandertals, not modern humans, but questions the date and classification of the find.

But researchers disagree about the timing of that exodus — whether the ancestral stock of modern humans left Africa earlier than 100,000 years ago or in the past 60,000 years.

A human - specific gene expressed only in glial cells of the brain apparently arose from conversion of the ancestral gene by a nonfunctional pseudogene in a common human chimp ancestor.

This «chromosomal disorder» is a key feature of the gibbon genome and has probably occurred after their secession from the ancestral line of the apes and humans.

This begins to explain the ancestral origins of the neural basis for the close coupling between vocal and pectoral / gestural signalling that is observed among many vertebrate groups, including humans.

To identify false - positives and estimate the type 1 error rate, we used the genomic positions of a set of known lineage - specific repeat families in human and mouse, since lineage - specific repeat insertions should not overlap ancestral elements.

Linkage disequilibrium and inference of ancestral recombination in 538 single - nucleotide polymorphism clusters across the human genome.

Alu - insertion polymorphisms are a boon for the study of human population genetics and primate comparative genomics because they are neutral genetic markers of identical descent with known ancestral states.

Linkage disequilibrium and inference of ancestral recombination in 538 single - nucleotide polymorphism clusters across the human genome Clark, A. G., R. Nielsen, J. Signorovitch, T. C. Matise et al. 2003.

However, approximately 168 Mb remained ambiguous (Table 2) which was more than double the 5.8 % of the total non-aligning human genome, the fraction of known ancestral bases not supported by ancestral elements (Table 1).

This was the most likely reason that ancestral element detection in mouse was so much lower than in human, as the genome - wide substitution rate in mouse is approximately twice that of human.

This is likely true for two reasons; 1) there would not have been much time for a large number of chromosomal rearrangements to occur between these early ancestral human and mouse genomes, 2) and that since divergence with the boreoeutherian ancestor the human genome has undergone only a small number of chromosomal rearrangements meaning that many human telomeric regions are ancestral [58, 73].

None of these positions is incompatible with her being ancestral to humans, and most scientists still consider afarensis a good candidate as a human ancestor.

The fact is that one school of thought («Regional Continuity») believes that all Middle Pleistocene Homo were really a genetic continuum, ancestral as a whole to modern humans; another («Replacement») believes that only the African ones were our ancestors, and the others more or less died out, replaced by the newcomers from Africa.