Sentences with phrase «populations by modern humans»

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In Africa alone, the continent with the highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking at World Population Day, it is at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growing.

«The initial dispersals out of Africa prior to 60,000 years ago were likely by small groups of foragers, and at least some of these early dispersals left low - level genetic traces in modern human populations.

«I think this is part of a population boom that's going on around 45,000 years ago, which means modern humans got to the ends of the world by 45,000 years ago,» he says.

Looking at indicators of population size and density (such as the number of stone tools, animal remains, and total number of sites), he concluded that modern humans — who may have had a population of only a few thousand when they first arrived on the continent — came to outnumber the Neanderthals by a factor of ten to one.

So I think, it exacerbated the problems and by 30,000 years ago — I mean, modern humans would have been impacted by these severe changes too, and their populations crashed as well, but somehow we got through it and the Neandertals did not.

By aligning the Denisovan genome with that of the reference human genome and counting mutations, the team calculated that the Denisovan and modern human populations finally split between 170,000 and 700,000 years ago.

Genetic analysis of modern humans is difficult, in part because the island populations were decimated by European diseases at the end of the 19th century.

In particular, the Neandertal genome sequence can now be used to catalog changes that have become «fixed» (are invariant within a population or species) in modern humans during the last few hundred thousand years and should be helpful for identifying genes affected by positive selection since humans diverged from Neandertals.

According to this view, archaic humans were not replaced by anatomically modern humans, but rather, gene flow between Africa, Europe, and Asia, led to the evolution of modern humans from local populations.

In contradiction to this theory is archaeological evidence to suggest early modern humans had already expanded beyond Africa by this time (22) and that the eruption of the YTT did not disturb the behavior of populations inhabiting peninsular India (12).

«Our approach can distinguish between two subtly different scenarios that could explain the genetic similarities shared by Neanderthals and modern humans from Europe and Asia,» Konrad Lohse, study co-author and population geneticist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, said in a statement.

As Condemi and her colleagues wrote, the mandible supports the theory of «a slow process of replacement of Neanderthals by the invading modern human populations, as well as additional evidence of the upholding of the Neanderthals» cultural identity.»

This is supported by anthropological data showing that most modern human populations engage in polygynous marriage.

They are solved by the most modern theories and models of human behaviour in the broader context of development, population, technology, agricultural production and environmental conservation and restoration.

Grey lines indicate the projected global human appropriation of terrestrial NPP (i.e., modern per capita appropriation of NPP multiplied by human population projections under different scenarios).