Sentences with phrase «oldest evidence»

He's using some 40 year old evidence (if it can be called that) to attempt to prove his point.

Older evidence suggests that classroom observations can be influenced by factors unrelated to performance, such as age and race.

«Oldest evidence of life on land found in 3.48 billion - year - old Australian rocks.»

Previously, the world's oldest evidence for microbial life on land came from 2.7 - 2.9 billion - year - old deposits in South Africa containing organic matter - rich ancient soils.

In 1996, the Innocence Project obtained DNA test results on old evidence from the 1985 crime scene.

Buchanan's bill also would allow such older evidence in certain cases.

In these scenarios, the two summative assessments each week could actually function more like formatives over time, as old evidence disappears and new evidence replaces it.

But these rocks are difficult to analyse because they were re-heated around 2.6 billion years ago, which left a record of magnetic activity then that partially overlaid older evidence.

But the new discovery is not without its critics, who say older evidence...

There is increasing research (and age old evidence) that squatting to use the bathroom is not only more efficient and more natural, but also helps avoid common digestive disturbances (and even bigger problems like hemorrhoids.

Test scores are not the only education outcome and some observers have downplayed them, citing older evidence that voucher programs increase high school graduation and college - going.

With the help of a childhood friend, Lee Ann Bonner, now an investigative reporter, Nell sifts through old evidence, trying to stir up any memories that might shed some light on the events of 20 years ago.

Morten Bergsmo: Using Old Evidence in Core International Crimes Cases [Bengali version] Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher Oslo, 2011 Published on 17 October 2011.

Scouring the blockchain, researchers found years - old evidence tying Silk Road transaction to users» public accounts.

And the inadvertent discovery lay within sight of what is currently our best and oldest evidence of early urban life.

The Swartkrans site in South Africa is believed by some to contain 1.6 million - year - old evidence in the form of hundreds of charred bones.

It states that the oldest evidence of load - bearing camels is after the accounts of the Bible.

Finally, we must look at the oldest evidence for the resurrection, I Corinthians 15:3 ff.

Maastricht - Belvédère, the Netherlands: Fragments of ochre up to 250,000 years old, found among animal bones and stone artifacts, are the oldest evidence of the pigment's use by Neanderthals.

In 2000 he was asked to run modern DNA tests on 18 - year - old evidence to see if the results might exonerate a convicted death row offender.

The South African archaeological record is so important because it shows some of the oldest evidence for modern behavior in early humans.

In October Niedźwiedzki and Brusatte reported another major find, 250 - million - year - old fossilized footprints that represent the oldest evidence of the dinosaur's forebears.

The engraved limb could stand as the oldest evidence of humans engaging in ritual cannibalism, as Bello and her fellow Natural History Museum of London researchers reported today in PLOS ONE.

Fossilized denticles, tiny tooth - shaped scales that once covered their skin, are the oldest evidence we have for sharks — though researchers disagree on whether denticles alone are enough classify a species as a shark.

The discovery is the oldest evidence of cacao manipulation.

If confirmed, the early date would make this the oldest evidence of monumental Buddhist sculpture.

This isn't the oldest evidence of winemaking in the world, however.

Until this year, the oldest evidence of copulation in higher animals came from 180 - million - year - old fossils of fish giving birth.

In fact, the recent study includes a description of the oldest evidence of African booid snakes, he said.

Until now the oldest evidence of bipedalism was the fossil footprints at Laetoli, Tanzania, which are believed to have been left 3.6 million years ago by A. afarensis.

The research team from UVic and partner universities in the US and Jordan has found the oldest evidence of protein residue — the residual remains of butchered animals including horse, rhinoceros, wild cattle and duck — on stone tools.

This would be the oldest evidence of leukemia to date.

The oldest evidence of war came from a village called San José Mogote, where Marcus and Flannery found a double line of 3,260 - year - old burnt postholes, the remains of a palisade probably built to defend the village from raiders.

Russia's Ural Mountains have yielded what may be the oldest evidence yet for pollen eating among insects.

Here, we report hominin footprints in two sedimentary layers dated at 1.51 to 1.53 million years ago (Ma) at Ileret, Kenya, providing the oldest evidence of an essentially modern human — like foot anatomy, with a relatively adducted hallux, medial longitudinal arch, and medial weight transfer before push - off.

For example, beeswax was detected in cooking pots from an archaeological site in Turkey, dating to the seventh millennium BC — the oldest evidence yet for the use of bee products by Neolithic farmers.

This culture, named for the beautiful carved standing stones («deer stones») and burial mounds (khirigsuurs) it built across the Mongolian Steppe, is linked with some of the oldest evidence for nomadic herding and domestic livestock use in eastern Eurasia.

The evidence also suggests that the birdlike arrangement of bones in the dinosaurs» arms evolved more than 75 million years before the oldest evidence of that in the fossil record.

Brazilian fossils reveal the oldest evidence of a vertebral malformation in an aquatic animal

Until this find, the oldest evidence of tame cats came from Egypt, where 4000 - year - old remains and paintings document cats» place of honor in that culture.

Until recently, the oldest evidence of life on land was only 2.8 billion years old, whereas the oldest evidence from the sea was 3.7 billion years old.

Archaeologists have found the oldest evidence yet of stone - tipped spears.

But the map is sketchy, owing to the lack of older evidence.

SHELL GAME Roughly 809 - million - year - old microbe fossils, such as this one found in Canada, may be the oldest evidence of organisms creating minerals for protection against predators.

Peaches are widely thought to have originated in China, but the oldest evidence had been archeological records dating back roughly 8,000 years.

At about 809 million years old, the find is the oldest evidence of organisms controlling the formation of minerals, a process called biomineralization.

The oldest evidence of people using numbers dates back about 30,000 years: bones and antlers scored with notches that are considered by archaeologists to be tallying marks.