Sentences with phrase «questions about human evolution»

«Our primary aim,» they write, «is to put questions about human evolution into a testable, quantitative framework and to offer an objective means to sort out apparently unsolvable debates about hominin phylogeny.»

They argued that his bones provided the answer to a long - standing and delicate question about human evolution: did our ancestors interbreed with Neanderthals?

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The prospects for conscious control of human biological evolution posed by recombinant DNA research raise directly and sharply certain questions about the future not only of our own culture but also of the human species itself.

Professor Celia Deane - Drummond's book, The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human Becoming, is an ambitious attempt to counter this trend by bringing questions about animals — as evolved and evolving — into a sustained dialogue with theological anthropology, seeking thereby to reshape the theological vision of the human peHuman Becoming, is an ambitious attempt to counter this trend by bringing questions about animals — as evolved and evolving — into a sustained dialogue with theological anthropology, seeking thereby to reshape the theological vision of the human pehuman person.

Today, researchers at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science), previewed data from a recent poll showing that when the word «human» is replaced with «elephant» in the evolution question, 75 % of Americans agree — about 25 percentage points higher than before.

The mosaic anatomy of Australopithecus sediba raises serious questions about our understanding of early human evolution.

Results of research on the voles, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in Montreal last month, raises questions about the full effect of radiation on animal populations and on humans.

«We were drawn to this collaboration because in spite of the different environments, cultures, histories, climates and identities of the two regions, we were asking the same kinds of questions about human capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Chhuman capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social ChHuman Evolution and Social Change.

H. naledi fossils in a nearby cave may be as young as 236,000 years old, raising questions about how human evolution occurred.

These findings raise questions about the evolution of our own cultural behavior and the extent to which chimpanzee and human cultures rely on the same social and cognitive processes.

The discovery of ancient human remains in an important cave site in South Africa raises major questions about the evolution of our direct ancestors, Homo sapiens.

Vaclav Smil takes his usual clear - eyed view of the whole landscape, from meat's role in human evolution to hard questions about animal cruelty.

Phillip V. Tobias, «Water and human evolution,» Out There 35: 38 - 44 (1998) at http://archive.outthere.co.za/98/dec98/disp1dec.html analyzes the savannah hypothesis and why it proved flawed, emphasizing the unanswered questions about water.