Sentences with phrase «one's extinct cousins»

The aim of current de-extinction efforts is to use gene - editing tools to engineer living species to re-create extinct cousins, such as engineering a woolly mammoth from an elephant.

This revealed that some humans have inherited a few per cent of their DNA from their extinct cousins.

Now Robert Belshaw at Plymouth University, UK, and Gkikas Magiorkinis at the University of Oxford, who study whether these viral DNA sequences contribute to disease, have found evidence that we do share some of these sections of DNA with our extinct cousins.

The unexpected age of some European cave paintings is causing experts to rethink the mental capabilities of our extinct cousins.

He has no problem, in principle, with humans learning tool technologies from our extinct cousins.

The find is the best evidence yet that we may have — on rare occasions — learned a trick or two from our extinct cousins.

That's not a reference to your behaviour at the end - of - year office party, but to the genes of our extinct cousins.

The mysteries surrounding our extinct cousins will continue to be solved piece - by - piece as more data and skeletons are analyzed.

Our extinct cousins the Neanderthals seem to have targeted cave bears, which were normally intimidating foes, while they were sleepy and weak from hibernating through the winter

Introducing animal analogues of their extinct cousins might help repair otherwise irreparable ecosystem damage.

Today we can only guess as to why a group of Neanderthals built a series of large stalagmite structures in a French cave — but the fact they did provides a rare glimpse into our extinct cousin's potential for social organisation in a challenging environment.

In 1983, paleontologists gave an odd, now - extinct cousin of the wildebeest the name Rusingoryx atopocranion (Greek for «the strange - skulled antelope from Rusinga»).

«Landmark» ancient protein study firmly links sophisticated artifacts from France to our extinct cousins

There's no evidence that our extinct cousins were less intelligent than modern humans, finds a review of archaeological evidence

Exploring those differences could tell the researchers more about the family resemblance between modern humans and those extinct cousins.

The difference between humans and our extinct cousins, the Neanderthals, is far smaller still: perhaps a tenth of that.

DNA extracted from dental plaque suggests our extinct cousins could self - medicate and they shared mouth bacteria with humans, perhaps transmitted by kissing

But the new - found fossils» traits do not neatly fit A. sediba into the hominin family tree, which includes only humans and our ancestors and extinct cousins.

The latest study also further narrows when early humans interbred with their now - extinct cousins, the Neanderthals.