Sentences with phrase «of gene hunters»

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If colic has a genetic basis — such that certain genes increase a baby's chances of being irritable or difficult to soothe — then we shouldn't rule out the possibility that hunter - gatherer babies are less likely to possess these genes.

First Farmers (Middle East and Europe 3,000 - 14,000 years ago) Analyses of hundreds of genomes show how early Middle Eastern farmers spread to Europe, mixed with hunter - gatherers and adapted to agricultural diets, including through a lactase gene mutation that allowed people to drink milk after childhood.

They discovered that several genetic variants in the hunter - gatherers were linked to a gene associated with physical performance, which they hypothesise could be part of the physiological adaptation to cold.

The richness of the African gene pool is demonstrated by decoding DNA from the anti-apartheid activist and several Bushmen hunter - gatherers

In 1962 James Neel suggested that early hunter - gatherers possessed a «thrifty gene» that helped them survive by speeding up the accumulation of fat when food was available.

The researchers also analyzed genes with known phenotypic association and show that some of the hunter - gatherers likely had blue eyes and darker skin, whereas the early farmers had lighter skin and brownish eyes.

Both the hunter - gatherers as well as the early farmers displayed high copy numbers of amylase genes in their genomes, suggesting that both populations had already adapted to a starch - rich diet.

Genes got passed from farmers to hunter - gatherers as well, although skeletal remains of Neolithic hunter - gatherers are much scarcer than those of their cultivating contemporaries.

A 7000 - year - old hunter - gatherer found in a Spanish cave has a genome surprisingly similar to modern humans, with blue eyes and a host of immunity genes

And it significantly replaced the local hunter - gatherer genes across Europe with the indelible stamp of steppe DNA, as happened in Britain with the migration of the Bell Beaker people to the island.

By bringing together seemingly disparate disciplines, bioinformatics has united the foot soldiers of scientific research: Computer scientists find themselves sharing coffee with gene hunters, programmers sit in on molecular biology seminars, and biologists and technologists share bylines on research papers.

When it comes to questions of human behavior, Dean Hamer, big - gene hunter, is sure he's got the answers.

For gene hunters, it's relatively straightforward to determine where a version of a particular gene lies on a given chromosome.

One surprise in the genetic data is that both populations of Native Americans have a small admixture of genes from East Asians and Australo - Melanesians, including Papuans, Solomon Islanders and Southeast Asian hunter gatherers.

At least 20 genes under positive selection in cats are associated with vision - related pathways, which fits with the importance of visual acuity for these natural - born hunters.

«In Romania,» she continued, «we found that there was a mix of these two processes, (such that) hunter - gatherers and farmers were sharing both their culture and genes.»

In addition, the data reveal that this was a more genetically diverse population than the central and western European hunter - gatherers living during the same epoch and that they also show pattern of adaptation to high latitude environments, including high frequencies of low pigmentation variants as well as a gene region associated with physical performance, which shows strong continuity into modern - day northern Europeans.

This unique research model was first established and proven in 1983 when the HDF brought together a multi-disciplinary group of about 100 international scientists, know now as «The Gene Hunters,» to discover the Huntington's disease gGene Hunters,» to discover the Huntington's disease genegene.

Some scientific problems with modern paleo movement include: 1) dogmatic insistence on the Raymond Dart model of «man the hunter», which has been contested and supplanted in paleoanthropology for decades; 2) ignorance about the speed of evolutionary adaptation, for example our very recent acquisition of lactase persistence and high amylase gene number; 3) focus on the diets of 80 - 10,000 years ago, dismissing the 40 million years when our lineage were predominantly herbivorous forest dwellers.

Since 99.99 % of our genes were formed before the development of agriculture, from a biological perspective, we are still hunter - gathers.

Of course, we know that genes alone are not responsible for cancer because we share many of the same genes as our hunter — gatherer ancestors and even just the same genes as our ancestors several generations ago, and yet the rate of cancer keeps going uOf course, we know that genes alone are not responsible for cancer because we share many of the same genes as our hunter — gatherer ancestors and even just the same genes as our ancestors several generations ago, and yet the rate of cancer keeps going uof the same genes as our hunter — gatherer ancestors and even just the same genes as our ancestors several generations ago, and yet the rate of cancer keeps going uof cancer keeps going up.

The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy by Mark Sisson is a journey through human evolution, comparing the life and robust health of our hunter - gatherer ancestors with a day in the life of a modern family.

In nature, if a dog's genes mutated in a way that would make them lesser of fighters, or hunters, they would likely die off because they would be unable to survive.