Sentences with phrase «present day humans»

Who they were and which present day humans they are related to has been debated intensely.

Comparison of these sequences with present day humans suggests that Neandertals had a long term low effective population size.

In the present day human education is spreading its net over the earth on an unprecedented scale and by means of unprecedented methods of expression and diffusion.

l) the disastrous ecological question is due to present day human regarding themselves as God and thinking they can use nature as they wish, without concern for the future of nature and of humanity.

A trite framing device, in which the travails of these people are cross-cut with the progress of the Voyager satellite through space, seems to suggest that their interactions are emblematic of present day human society in general.

Not exact matches

After CT scans in 2011, the fossils pushed estimates of the earliest human habitation on the West Coast back by 800 years (to about 13,800 years before present day).

Our present day bully - pulpit abusive religions stem from the Neolithic Revolution, which, as Jared Diamond put it, was The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race.

The other day on some discovery channel show said that the evolutionary jump in Humans, to our present form in the short amount of time that evolutionary theorist have declared, would be like a tornado ripping through a junk yard and in from the flying derbies and wind a fully assembled operational 747 be sitting in the tornado's wake.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

Regarding the «end of days» part of his interview, isn't it more likely that people are behaving as their biased and fearful psyches tell them to, seeing demons and signs at times that humans have designated significant, rather than demons presenting themselves to humans on arbitrary dates?

Humans did not evolve from present day apes.

Although the results of the studies in the psychology and philosophy of religion have not yet led to unanimous agreement among the scholars, the present - day knowledge of the place of religion in human experience is firmer than ever before.

As a result, they give insufficient attention to the increasingly powerful role that the symbolic environment plays in present - day human lives.

The authority of the past is never absolute, since the issues of the present day, upon which light is thrown by the accumulated experience of the human race, are what each of us must deal with.

Consequently all men who lived after the flood down to the present day have been the descendants of Noah, who became with his family the sole human survivors of the Deluge.

One of the dominant marks of present - day discussion is the revolt against traditional conceptions of all the human loves.

The present world is modern enough and it's changes day by day and upgrading human according to follow those.

The idea that it is the «norm» for families to inhabit single - family homes, with enough rooms and beds for each child to have their own, is completely at odds with the experience of most people throughout human history, including many here in the present - day United States.

It is by the Grace of God that another member of the Krohn family was not present when this occurred as there's no question in my mind that whoever would commit such a violent crime against a pet would not hesitate to harm a human,» said Tedisco, who was the driving force behind passage of the landmark Buster's animal cruelty felony law and the Assembly Chair of NYS Animal Advocacy Day.

All non-Africans stem from one major founding population, the studies agree, but earlier human migrations are also recorded in present - day people's DNA, one study finds.

«Geneticists discovered that present - day human populations were linked to a group of African modern humans who started migrating 70,000 years ago.

«We found that interbreeding with archaic humans — the Neanderthals and Denisovans — has influenced the genetic diversity in present - day genomes at three innate immunity genes belonging to the human Toll - like - receptor family,» says Janet Kelso of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

New methods for the removal of contaminating DNA from microbes and present - day humans that were developed by the Leipzig group have now enabled the researchers to sequence the genomes of five Neandertals from Belgium, France, Croatia, and Russia that are between 39,000 and 47,000 years old.

Comparisons of the Neandertal genome to the genomes of five present - day humans from different parts of the world identify a number of genomic regions that may have been affected by positive selection in ancestral modern humans, including genes involved in metabolism and in cognitive and skeletal development.

NASA simulated the changes assuming that humans will continue to emit carbon at present - day rates (a scenario scientists call RCP 4.5) and under an «extreme» scenario where nations increase their emissions (RCP 8.5).

We show that Neandertals shared more genetic variants with present - day humans in Eurasia than with present - day humans in sub-Saharan Africa, suggesting that gene flow from Neandertals into the ancestors of non-Africans occurred before the divergence of Eurasian groups from each other.

Neandertals, the closest evolutionary relatives of present - day humans, lived in large parts of Europe and western Asia before disappearing 30,000 years ago.

A big skull was not conducive to easy births, and thus a within - group pressure toward smaller heads was probably always present, as it still is in present - day humans, who have an unusually high infant mortality rate due to big - headed babies.

«More broadly, the results suggest that from pre-industrial to the present day, human activity possibly may have changed storms in these regions in powerful ways.»

The fossil provides the most detailed look to date at a member of a line of African primates that are now candidates for central players in the evolution of present - day apes and humans.

Many of the animals phyla that are losers in terms of present - day species numbers tend to be in the ocean, and because of human activity, they may go completely extinct.»

«With large present - day genomic datasets and increased international collaboration to handle the many newly sequenced ancient datasets, there is huge potential to understand the biology of human prehistory in a way that has never been accessible before.»

Previous genetic comparisons of present - day humans with Neandertals and their close Stone Age relatives, the Denisovans, had placed human origins at 400,000 years ago or more.

When Pääbo's team looked at patterns of nuclear genome variation in present - day humans, it identified 12 genome regions where non-Africans exhibited variants that were not seen in Africans and that were thus candidates for being derived from the Neandertals, who lived not in Africa but Eurasia.

Using the large dataset of present - day and ancient human data, the researchers were able to calculate the proportion of the ancestral components in present - day Europeans.

Researchers accounted for human influence on climate by estimating the present - day chances of Harvey's rainfall totals and then comparing them with 1950s greenhouse gas levels.

«We know that there are likely to have been at least two admixture events into the ancestors of present - day people — the shared event early during modern human migration out of Africa, and a second event into the ancestors of present - day Asians,» says Kelso.

In common parlance, the phrase «global climate change» is often used to describe how present - day climate is changing in response to human activities.

In order to compare the ancient humans to present - day people, the team also generated genome - wide data from about 2,400 humans from almost 200 diverse worldwide contemporary populations.

By generating the sequence of one Neandertal and 50 present - day humans at these positions, we have identified 88 amino acid substitutions that have become fixed in humans since our divergence from the Neandertals.

Their analysis — which used DNA data from a Neandertal woman from the Altai Mountains in Siberia (SN: 1/25/14, p. 17) and 112,338 present - day British people — confirmed some links between Neandertal heritage and human diseases made by previous studies (SN: 3/5/16, p. 18), but didn't find evidence that Neandertal gene variants contribute to obesity.

Even though early human - like species were present at the same time as the ancestors of some present day great apes, the researchers found that the evolutionary history of ancestral great ape populations was far more complex than that of humans.

But together the two projects «point to the power of large studies to understand what factors determine survival and reproduction in humans in present - day societies,» Pääbo says.

Species loss has continued into the present day, driven by a variety of factors, including climate change and overharvest by humans.

One worry, for example, is whether present - day computer programs will be powerful enough to distinguish genes from the non-coding DNA that makes up 98 per cent of the human genome.

Using previous data from present - day humans, chimps and monkeys, Pontzer's group documented a relationship between the shape and orientation of the lower pelvis and the energy available for a range of motions involved in walking and climbing.

Researchers in linguistics, archaeology, molecular genetics, and human ecology explore an explanation for the present - day distribution of many of the world's languages and language families.

T.J. Yun, former Georgia Tech Ph.D. student, and Arriaga will present their research, «A Text Message a Day Keeps the Pulmonologist Away», today at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2013 in Paris.The research won a best paper award in the Replichi category, which highlights best practices in study methodology.

There are no written records of the horror early humans encountered when the volcano in present - day Lake Toba, Indonesia, erupted more than 70,000 years ago.

The artifacts push the history of modern human behavior in southern Africa back more than 20,000 years, archaeologists report online July 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forging a link between the cultures of ancient and present - day humans.