Sentences with phrase «own early ancestors»

It was a way to explain incomprehensible forces of nature to our early ancestors, which evolution had given a surplus of imagination from oversized brains, without the discipline to use that brain power wisely.

«This early ancestor possessed primitive teeth and a small brain but it stood upright and walked on two feet.

I have a portrait of an ancestor who lost his land to the Crown because he was a Catholic; there is a tradition of an earlier ancestor who lost his life.

Trav, all the dna within your own body proves that all of your earliest ancestors came from South East Africa... I'm so sorry.

No one has power to alter these heavenly lights, for they serve to display the greatness of their Creator, and as our eyes see them now, so saw them our earliest ancestors, and so shall see them our latest posterity.26

Probably kept our early ancestors alive to be jumpy and always on guard for some cave bear suddenly springing from out of nowhere, but times have changed somewhat.

They took early hominid DNA and they merged it with their own to help evolve our early ancestors into the beings we are today.

This may or may not have been an intentional way to show how our early ancestors would have eaten their food.

Paleo experts took note of our modern - day behavior and thought, if obesity and disease rates are rising as quickly as processed foods are flying off shelves, maybe we should go back to our roots and eat like our early ancestors did?

Some sources even claim this is one of the early ancestors for Naga - series chile peppers.

When we think of all the horror stories we've been told about what will happen if we don't follow a laundry list of rules about how to raise our children in today's modern, Western society, you can bet that pretty much none of it applied to our early ancestors (or even other cultures today).

These shared features, the authors say, suggest that it's time to rethink what we thought we knew about dinosaurs» earliest ancestors.

The tale begins with our early ancestors — where they traveled and with whom they consorted.

A set of 5.7 - million - year - old footprints, found on a Greek island, suggest that our earliest ancestors strayed far beyond their supposed African homeland

To survive, our early ancestors had to do several things repeatedly and very well: locate food, escape predators, mate and protect offspring.

It was practiced by some of our earliest ancestors, such as Homo habilis and the even older Australopithecus garhi, who walked on two legs, but whose facial features and brain size were closer to those of apes.

That's the story of paleoanthropology, at least according to Ann Gibbons's book The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Doubleday, $ 26), a deliciously soap - operatic account of efforts to trace human ancestry through the study of fossils.

C. kunmingensis belongs to a group of animals called fuxianhuiids, and was an early ancestor of modern arthropods — the diverse group that includes insects, spiders and crustaceans.

At once it recalls the experience of our earliest ancestors — some of whom may have created rudimentary paintings on these walls — peering into the light.

Homo erectus — an early ancestor of modern humans — resembled a squat body builder more than a svelte distance runner, a newly unearthed fossil pelvis suggests.

«Tool use fundamentally altered the way our early ancestors interacted with nature, allowing them to eat new types of food and exploit new territories.

Piecing together the planetesimals, the earliest ancestors of the asteroids, hasn't been easy because eons of collisions have broken them apart.

It also suggests that the earliest ancestor of butterflies and moths flew during the day, not at night, as previously thought.

Several competing theories explain when and by what routes our earliest ancestors migrated out of Africa after they evolved there as early as 300,000 years ago.

For one thing, Suddendorf says, the subjects «already have language and have grown up with language,» and so it would be expected that they would learn more effectively when they could talk to each other, which may not have been true for our earliest ancestors.

Although many researchers (including Moyà - Solà) place human origins in Africa, Pau may bolster the notion that humans» earlier ancestors actually evolved in Eurasia and migrated to Africa.

For over 100 years, scientists have tried to reveal his story, posing theories as to what he looked like, where he came from and what he can tell us about our earliest ancestors.

In the days of our early ancestors, decisions about the distribution of resources weren't made in courthouses or legislative offices, but through shows of strength.

Our earliest ancestors may have walked on two legs, but their heads were small, their teeth large and their arms long.

We've already transformed most of the biosphere beyond anything our early ancestors could have imagined, clearing, ploughing, burning, building, damming, domesticating, driving to extinction, dousing with chemicals and even changing the climate.

Accessing Ancient Genomes — New techniques and very old bones pushed back the limits of genome sequencing for our early ancestors.

«The next step is to create a dated evolutionary history for the group, from the earliest ancestors to present day.»

New techniques and very old bones overcome the limits of genome sequencing for prehistoric horses, ancient cave bears, and even our own early ancestors.

Did the earliest ancestors of swimming mammals fumble as they took to the water?

Convention says that our earliest ancestors behaved like baboons.

The fact that we evolved much less facial hair than the apes suggests that our early ancestors may have found some advantage to letting their blushes show.

As hard as it may be to imagine, their earliest ancestors were typically about the size of a small dog, and sported three toes on their front legs, and four on the back.

On a remote Pacific island, the local strays look a lot like their earliest ancestors.

The earliest ancestors of golden retrievers were chosen for their yellow coat and patient personality, but these desired traits came with an unfortunate side effect: a genetic predisposition to cancer, which ends up claiming the life of up to 63 percent of these dogs, according to one study.

«These new techniques will keep evolving, enabling us to gain an ever - clearer understanding of who our earliest ancestors were.»

Instead of congratulating our early ancestors on their intelligence, we should be asking why it took us 50 or 100 millennia to move on from the awakening of our creative minds to such things as the use of pottery or bronze.

In a new report in Nature Communications, researchers conclude that this Neandertal, as well as others whose mtDNA was previously sequenced, inherited their mitochondrial genomes from mating with an early ancestor of Homo sapiens.

Our earliest ancestors may have breathed through their ears, say paleontologists Martin Brazeau and Per Ahlberg of Uppsala University in Sweden.

Our early ancestors may have engaged in similar behavior.

Our early ancestors may have already grasped the importance of oral hygiene, claims anthropologist Leslea Hlusko of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

«However, whether by demand or opportunity, our work suggests that the physiological innovation of gills occurred at the same time as the lifestyle transition from passive to active in some of our earliest ancestors.»

The nasal sinuses of our early ancestors may have been lined with odor receptors that gave a heightened sense of smell, which aided survival.

Our teeth erupt later than they did in our early ancestors, but not so the roots of our molars: they develop as they did in Homo erectus

A fossil skull fragment from 1.8 million years ago has been rebuilt in a computer and is shedding light on the evolution of our early ancestors

ONE of the first mammals to use echolocation may not have been a bat or a whale, but an early ancestor of horses.