Sentences with phrase «of ape evolution»

A gibbon - like size has a range of consequences for existing models of ape evolution.

The fossil skull throws light on that period of ape evolution.

Not exact matches

Science has a ton of assumptions and we need to make sure we are also teaching our kids that aspect, evolution (as it pertains to we came from apes) has many flaws and unanswered questions and shouldn't be taught as scientific fact!

From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution by Brendan Purcell New City Press, 370 pages, $ 34.95 Benjamin Disraeli famously asked whether man is «an ape or an angel» and answered that he himself stood «on the side of the angels.»

One thing that many Christians get hung up on is the idea of evolution as a belief that we all developed from single celled organisms and that our genetic map split from apes and etc..

It gets me that christians don't believe in evolution and will ask if we evolved from apes why there are still apes but yet do not see the lunacy of the Adam and Eve story, where in order to populate the earth incest would have been necessary.

and there has yet to be definitive proof of ape evolving into human if you have it please by all means post it the world would like to see it, oh and you forgot to put in how evolution has as many gaps as any religion like Genesis Park describes a number of images drawn by Neanderthals and by humans in the Middle East which resemble dinosaurs.

There is plenty of evidence for evolution (althought we didn't come «from apes,» but from a common ancestor with apes) and literally no evidence that we were created as is by a deity.

so again lets see this proof of evolution between ape and man

The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism

From the evolution side of things, do you really think that two people started the whole race of mankind from the apes???? Sounds crazy to me...

I guess its not their fault, perhaps atheists have a deeper understanding of evolution since there ancestors are apes and Christians well, are built in the image of God.

Don't misunderstand me; some evolutionists (particularly some of the neo-atheists like Richard Dawkins, who argues in his new book people who don't believe in evolution are on the same level as Holocaust deniers) have gone ape over their theory (forgive the pun) to the point that they seem to forget it is a theory, and refer to it as if it is an undeniable scientific fact.

Our evolution from apes means we aren't necessarily here for a specific purpose, but rather by luck of the draw and good old fashioned survival instinct.

If there is indeed a soul or purpose for man that is greater than self (animal) evolution would point towards something greater not something less than or limited to the purpose of an ape or a plant.

Much opposition to the concept of evolution in the nineteenth century derived from a revulsion against the idea that humans were descended from ape - like animals long ago.

And as for the origin of species and evolution in terms of the scientific method, that scientific method has given us the ability to decode the DNA genome of many animals, and to show where, back in time, the various relatives of man and modern apes, for example, branched off into separate species.

You are aware that the theory of evolution in NO way suggests that human beings evolved «from» apes or monkeys, right?

If evolution is a law, as so many seems to accept, you would see apes evolving into human beings since beginning of human history and everyday of our lives.

Finally, when it comes to the evolution of human, I think that Mark Twain had it right when he said that apes are descended from man.

You can't deny the scientific evidence that continuely points to the creation of the universe millions and millions of years ago and evolution of humans from apes unless your intention is for the U.S. to continue to fall behind the rest of the world in math and science and become the villiage idiot.

My idea of a higher intelligence in something that sparked the fuse of evolution (yes we did evolve from pre-historic man and esstentially apes get over yourselves creationists) and nothing more.

Meaning that Mankind was not a result of evolution of Monkeys & Apes... rather the other way round on reversed evolution...!

The opponents of evolution said that humans were not apes, not even transformed apes.

Much of the opposition to the idea of evolution in the nineteenth century derived from a revulsion against the idea that humans were descended from ape - like creatures long ago.

From the highest ape to MAN there is a huge leap in intellect, not explicable by material evolution, a diference of kind, not merely degree.

Critics of evolution are fond of citing Piltdown Man (a human skull with an ape jaw) or Nebraska Man (the tooth of a fossil pig).

Initially Professor McKenna specialized in studying the social behavior of monkeys and apes but the birth of his son in 1978 he began to apply the principles of human behavioral evolution to the understanding of human infancy.

In the context of Darwin's theories of evolution, the bones were re-examined by anatomist William King, who promptly named them Homo neanderthalensis, a name that provocatively (and incorrectly) suggested they were the missing link between apes and humans.

A new study shows similar patterns in the evolution of gut bacteria and the primates they live in, suggesting that germs and apes could have helped shaped one another.

The fossil provides the most detailed look to date at a member of a line of African primates that are now candidates for central players in the evolution of present - day apes and humans.

Further studies of casts of the inner braincase, which show impressions from surface features of the brain, may help clarify N. alesi's position in ape evolution, Nengo says.

We began to take evolution into our own hands, starting a series of innovations that changed human history — and made us into the very modern apes we are today (see timeline below).

«I'd go out on a limb and say not only that [interbreeding] played an important role in the evolution of all living apes, but that it shaped the evolution of extinct ones as well.»

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.

Although it's not yet clear whether the acquired genes were ultimately beneficial or harmful, the finding strengthens the idea that such cross-species mating played an important role in the evolution of the great apes.

«Wild apes are our outdoor lab for the evolution of human culture,» says Van Schaik.

For this reason, a few anthropologists, such as David Begun at the University of Toronto in Canada, have suggested that our ape ancestors spent a formative period in Europe — although they still agree that later hominin evolution, including that of the australopithecines and the origin of our own species, occurred solely in Africa.

The two Univerity of Washington studies, «Great ape genetic diversity and population history,» published in Nature, and «Evolution and diversity of copy number variation in the great ape lineage,» published in Genome Research, are funded by NIH grant HG002385 and support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

The catalog of great ape genetic diversity, the most comprehensive ever, elucidates the evolution and population histories of great apes from Africa and Indonesia.

The discovery came about while researchers were exploring and comparing the accumulation of copy number variants during great ape evolution.

The comparison with other sequenced genomes revealed that over the course of great ape evolution, about 90 % of the genome has been influenced by natural selection.

Both of these apes may have something to tell us about the evolution of human behavior, yet most research has focused on chimps, in large part because bonobos are endangered — perhaps as few as 10,000 remain.

Analysis of great ape genetic diversity is likely to reveal ways that natural selection, population growth and collapse, geographic isolation and migration, climate and geological changes, and other factors shaped primate evolution.

Scally's group comes up with a date of about 6 million years ago, adjusting what would have been a more recent estimate by assuming that the mutation rate slowed over time in ape evolution.

Mysterious episodes of genetic duplication in our great ape ancestors may have paved the way for human evolution

The results, published in the 28 October issue of Science, will provide a better understanding of the genetic flow that plays a role in the evolution of great apes.

«Ochman and colleagues show that human evolution was accompanied by both a rapid divergence of the microbiome from the microbiome of apes, and a drastic loss of diversity of the microbial community,» says Thomas Bosch of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany.

«Monkeys moved into that ape niche, in terms of a dental pattern, but what exactly that means I don't know yet,» said Hlusko, a member of UC Berkeley's Human Evolution Research Center.

Comparison of amino acid residues at these positions among various mammalian melanopsins suggests that melanopsins in apes including humans have acquired and kept two residues destabilizing the bond with retinal in molecular evolution.