Sentences with phrase «percent of the modern human»
This long, narrow muscle runs from the elbow to the wrist and is missing in 11 percent of modern humans.
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Neanderthal Great -... Grandson (Romania 40,000 years ago) Oase 1, the jawbone of a modern human found in 2002, contained over 99 percent contaminant DNA.
Researchers sequencing Neandertal DNA have concluded that between 1 and 4 percent of the DNA of people today who live outside Africa came from Neandertals, the result of interbreeding between Neandertals and early modern humans.
Researchers knew that Neanderthal brains reached full size between the ages of 6 and 8 years and that they were about 10 percent larger than the brains of modern humans.
Scientists recently discovered that Neanderthals and modern humans once interbred; nowadays, about 1.5 to 2.1 percent of DNA in people outside Africa is Neanderthal in origin.
Rather, they write in a paper published online in the Journal of Anatomy, it appears the chin's emergence in modern humans arose from simple geometry: As our faces became smaller in our evolution from archaic humans to today — in fact, our faces are roughly 15 percent shorter than Neanderthals» — the chin became a bony prominence, the adapted, pointy emblem at the bottom of our face.
I think, we, even a small percent of superiority in your ability to [deal] with cold, so we [know] modern humans had needles; they probably had sewn clothing, whereas Neandertals probably fastened their clothing together.
Researchers found that Neanderthal nasal passages were 29 percent larger than the nasal passages of modern humans.
In the modern era, emissions to the atmosphere from volcanoes are only about 1 percent of emissions from human sources.
A modern human of the same age, on average, tends to have 95 percent of the adult brain weight.
It took about one percent of the world economy to develop the modern infrastructure of clean water and indoor plumbing; that's roughly what will be required to get rid of «another kind of human waste» — carbon dioxide emissions from burning fuels.