Sentences with phrase «of modern human»

His option was to create painterly images of a modern human mythology and space, combined with traditional plasticity.

(The home of modern human behavior had been thought to be Europe.)

The adult internet dating has influenced many aspects of modern human civilization, especially in global trade and transmission.

Although the assumption is often made that agriculture was in every respect an improvement upon the human condition, anthropological research shows that if our Paleolithic ancestors were able to survive accidents, infection and childbirth, their longevity was similar to that of the modern human, but without many of the chronic degenerative diseases that affect us now.

Because of the obvious humanness of the Turkana Boy fossil, and the fact that H. erectus brain sizes overlap the extreme lower range of modern human brain sizes, creationists have nowadays almost entirely abandoned the old line (popularized by Duane Gish) that Peking Man and Java Man are apes, and now generally claim that Homo erectus fossils are a variant form of modern humans (ignoring the inconvenient fact that there are many obvious differences between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens).

Finding these hominins on an isolated island in Asia, and with elements of modern human behaviour in tool making and hunting, is truly remarkable and could not have been predicted by previous discoveries.

All these sequences support the conclusion that Neandertal mtDNA is outside the range of modern human mtDNA, and strongly indicate that Neandertals made no lasting contribution to the human mtDNA gene pool.

The modern human sequences in the Altai Neanderthal appear to derive from a group of modern human ancestors from Africa that separated early from other humans, about the time present - day African populations diverged from one another, around 200,000 years ago.

So although the extreme lower range of modern human brain sizes does overlap that of Homo erectus, their skulls are very different: in H. erectus, the brain case really is smaller in relation to the rest of the skull.

The Denisovan analyzed in this study did not have traces of modern human DNA, unlike the Neanderthal found in the same cave.

Anthropological and population genetics, applied to questions of modern human origins and subsequent migrations and local adaptations.

Recent research concerns morphological and phylogenetic aspects of modern human diversity, based on analysis of recent and fossil skeletal material.

A 2009 study on African genetics located the origin of modern human migration in south - western Africa, near the coastal border of Namibia and Angola.

Researchers from the University of York have helped to solve an archaeological dispute - confirming that Neanderthals were responsible for producing tools and artifacts previously argued by some to be exclusively in the realm of modern human cognitive abilities.

Despite the consequences of modern human civilization, nature still finds a way to adapt and survive.

And while the origins of modern human behavior have been widely debated, there has been much less discussion about the evolution of modern human anatomy.

«Anatomically, the Neandertals are quite similar to ourselves, having a skeletal arrangement identical to ours, brains as large as ours, and - to the best of our knowledge - the capability to perform any act normally within the ability of a modern human.»

Creationists interpret this to mean that it was the skull of a modern human; in fact, Bowden (1981) thinks it «probably the most convincing evidence» of this.

A discovery shows our early ancestors were making tools long before the emergence of the modern human lineage, researchers say.

And pieces of mitochondrial DNA supposedly collected from 80 - million - year - old dinosaur bone fragments8 were, in fact, of modern human origin.

«It is important to note that depression is a very complex disease and also defined in the context of modern human societies, so we certainly can't say that our ancestors or Neanderthals were depressed in the modern sense.

The use of the modern human reference samples for stature estimates are inappropriate because they assume body proportions akin to modern humans, which are not possessed by australopithecines.

This paper gives results from a stable oxygen isotope assessment of modern human and horse enamel δ18O values recovered from tooth enamel.

By tracing the spread of different strains of H. pylori, researchers have been able to trace and date the migration of modern human ancestors out of Africa.

This particular group had, for example, a big chunk of modern human DNA right in the middle of a gene that may have a role in language development, called FOXP2.

The artifacts push the history of modern human behavior in southern Africa back more than 20,000 years, archaeologists report online July 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forging a link between the cultures of ancient and present - day humans.

But evidence is mounting that these hallmarks of modern human behavior may have existed in earlier hominids.

The evolution of modern human brain shape.

Among them: sequencing specific parts of the Y chromosome and comparing them with those of modern human DNA.

Louise Humphrey, an anthropologist and tooth expert at the Natural History Museum in London, agrees, although she says that the early weaning of the Scladina child is «intriguing» because it is more than a year earlier than the nearly 30 months typical of modern human nonindustrial societies.

The oldest DNA of a modern human ever to be sequenced shows that the Homo sapiens that interbred with the Neanderthals were very modern — not just anatomically but with modern behaviour including painting, modern tools, music and jewellery.

In the case of unchecked emissions, «we are going to be seeing climates that certainly are completely outside the range of modern human experience,» Jackson says.

According to Liu and other genetic researchers, this bottleneck may be associated with the origin of the modern human.

Under those specifications, the hypothetical human brain grew as big as ancient humans» brains are thought to have grown, and the slow growth rate matched that of modern human brains.

A decade ago the leading theory of modern human origins held our species arose around 200,000 years ago in eastern Africa and (apart from short forays into Israel around 90,000 to 120,000 years ago) did not begin spreading out of Africa in a major way until around 60,000 years ago.

He, nonetheless, emphasizes that tests of the DNA before and after sequencing was done revealed no evidence of modern human DNA.

If Harvati is right, the last Neanderthals may have starved to death on the fringes of Europe as more efficient groups of modern human hunters invaded their territory and ultimately became masters of the world.

The remarkably complete «Skull 5» features a big jaw, big teeth and overhanging eyebrows — but the brain was just one - third the size of a modern human's.

«Archaeologists have argued that exploitation of the marine environment was an essential achievement in the incremental advance of modern human populations,» she says.

The findings fit into the ongoing debate over whether tools mark the start of modern human culture, or predate Homo.

This adds to evidence of the importance of the marine environment in the success of modern human, says Rebecca Cann of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Using novel analytical techniques, they have demonstrated that these H. erectus footprints preserve evidence of a modern human style of walking and a group structure that is consistent with human - like social behaviours.

This may not be the first appearance of the modern human hand, but we believe that it is close to the origin, given that we do not see this anatomy in any human fossils older than 1.8 million years.

The oldest DNA of a modern human ever to be sequenced shows that the Homo sapiens who interbred with the Neanderthals were very modern — not just anatomically but with modern behaviour including painting, modern tools, music and jewellery.

The new DNA sequence shows it actually happened in the middle of an age called the Initial Upper Palaeolithic, when there was an explosion of modern human culture.

Population geneticist Laurent Excoffier of the University of Bern in Switzerland agrees that Out of Africa is still the most plausible model of modern human origins, noting that the alleged admixture did not continue as moderns moved into Europe.

Many researchers concur that the results disprove the strict Out of Africa replacement model of modern human origins.

In addition to illuminating how Neandertals and moderns interacted, the Neandertal genome is helping researchers to figure out which parts of the modern human genome separate us from all other creatures.

The authors of the study, an international team from Portuguese, Spanish, Catalonian, German, Austrian and Italian research institutions, say their findings suggest that the process of modern human populations absorbing Neanderthal populations through interbreeding was not a regular, gradual wave - of - advance but a «stop - and - go, punctuated, geographically uneven history.»

Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors — the so - called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins.