Sentences with phrase «picture of human evolution»

Lambert agrees that the team's work creates new possibilities for DNA research, including applying the technique to ancient human fossils to gain a clearer picture of human evolution.

Powered by advances in sequencing technology, the field of ancient DNA has succeeded beyond all expectations, helping researchers to retrieve the entire genomes of Neandertals and other kinds of ancient humans and transforming the picture of human evolution.

The discovery in 1924 of the Taung child astonished and unsettled researchers because it didn't fit their picture of human evolution.

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Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

They found that women were less happy with their bodies and more likely to restrict their eating after seeing pictures of competitive women — described as «playing to win», for example — compared with other women (Evolution and Human Behavior, vol 31, p 365).

Han and Silva also brought human evolution, host genetic diversity, and host immunity into the complex picture of leprosy.

But the INSIGHT model considers the changes among dozens of human individuals and close relatives, such as the chimpanzee, which provides a picture of evolution over much shorter time frames.

As more Y chromosome mutations are discovered, he says, researchers will be able to paint an ever higher resolution picture of human prehistory — the when, where, and Y of human evolution.

We have now started to put together a coherent picture of how the changing East African landscape has driven human evolution over the last ten million years.