Sentences with phrase «primate ancestors of human»

About 45 million to 60 million years ago, a retrovirus called MER41 invaded the genome of a primate ancestor of humans.

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[1] Our world is not at the centre of the universe; history starts fifteen thousand million years ago with the Big Bang, we human beings are the result of an evolutionary process, and we share a common ancestor with the other primates.

Archie's relatively small eyes support Ni's theory that the yet - to - be-discovered ancestor of our branch of primates was, like humans, active during the day, or diurnal.

Evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare, also at Duke, is part of a small group of scientists who think they might know how humans evolved this ability, sometime during the 5 million to 7 million years since we shared a common ancestor with other primates.

Habitual bipedal locomotion is a defining feature of modern humans compared with other primates, and the evolution of this behaviour in our clade would have had profound effects on the biologies of our fossil ancestors and relatives.

Could this tiny animal, with a body just seven centimetres long, be the ancestor of all living primates — including humans?

As the world's most famous human ancestor, the 1 - meter - tall primate nicknamed Lucy has made headlines ever since she was discovered at Hadar in the badlands of Ethiopia in 1974.

Human bloodlust — from war to murder — traces back millions of years to our primate ancestors.

A tiny fossil from 55 million years ago could be a tarsier, a relative of ours — or it could be the ancestor of all living primates, including humans

Over millions of years, our human and primate ancestors left a trail of teeth that she and other paleontologists have followed for clues to our evolutionary history.

Within the class Mammalia and the order Primates, humans, other members of the genus Homo (such as Neanderthals) and our closest ancestors, Australopithecus and Ardipithecus, fell into family Hominidae.

After analyzing human DNA from several populations around the world and examining primate genomes dating back to the shared ancestor of both humans and chimpanzees, researchers reached a striking conclusion that several gene variants linked to schizophrenia were actually positively selected and remained largely unchanged over time, suggesting that there was some advantage to having them.

These Ardipithecus fossils were the earliest ancestor of humans after they diverged from the main ape lineage of the primate family tree, neither ape - like nor chimp - like, yet not human either.

In earlier work, James Sikela, a genome researcher at the University of Colorado, Denver, and Jonathan Pollack from Stanford University and colleagues found 134 genes that had been duplicated primarily after human ancestors split off from other primates.

Ever since scientists realized that humans evolved from a succession of primate ancestors, the public imagination has been focused on the inflection point when those ancestors switched from ape - like shuffling to walking upright as we do today.

The discovery of human oRGs» self - renewing niche and remarkable generative capacity reinforces the idea that these cells may have been responsible for the expansion of the cerebral cortex in our primate ancestors, the researchers said.

Since humans and chimpanzees split from their common ancestor around 6 million years ago, the Homo sapiens brain and that of our closest primate relative evolved on their own separate paths.

HARs are parts of the genome that remained stable in mammals for millennia, but then quickly changed as humans evolved from our primate ancestors.

Applying the model has identified more than 2,000 genes — roughly 10 percent of the human genome — suggesting that selective sweeps were a frequent occurrence that drove the evolution of humans away from their primate ancestors.

The limestone caves, once a marshy wetland supporting a huge diversity of plant life and animals, have expelled an impressive quantity of ancient mammal remains and fossil evidence of an early human - like primate ancestor.

107 Richard W. Wrangham, «Out of the Pan, into the fire: How our ancestors» evolution depended on what they ate,» in Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution, edited by Frans B. M. de Waal (Harvard University Press 2001), pp.121 - 143.