Sentences with phrase «rather than modern humans»

Scientists have found the first major evidence that Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, created the world's oldest known cave paintings.

Scientists have found the first major evidence that Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, created the world's oldest known cave paintings — suggesting they may have had an artistic sense similar to our own.

Rather than modern humans rapidly replacing Neanderthals, there seems to have been a more complex picture «characterised by a biological and cultural mosaic that lasted for several thousand years».

Teeth from these diminutive individuals suggest they belonged to a unique species rather than a modern human with a growth disorder, as previously suspected

Not exact matches

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

The modern project of controlling nature is founded on the belief that technological innovation improves the human condition and should be encouraged rather than controlled.

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

Rather than an expansion of the human, the modern «subjective turn» represents a refusal of ecstatic existence.

Rather than a fall from a pristine state, modern science sees the human race arising from a long struggle characterized by natural selection and survival of the fittest.

It is a curious fact that while the general culture of contemporary theologians is still markedly literary, rather than scientific, they seem to forget the many lessons concerning the human situation to be learnt from tragedy, whether ancient or modern.

Rather than considering toolmaking as a proxy for language ability, he and his colleagues explored the way that language may help modern humans learn to make such tools.

If so, it would mean that, rather than being an 18,000 - year - old representative of a new species, the hobbit was just a modern human with a growth disorder that left it with a brain the size of a grapefruit, among other odd traits, which is what critics have argued all along.

That's strong evidence for early modern human migration across the Red Sea to Arabia, he says, rather than the more northern route.

From the beginning there have been people who have suspected that rather than being a new species, this is actually a modern human that suffered from a disease known as microcephaly.

The bone tools suggest that rather than cropping up and then sticking around, «modern human behavior and innovation can come and go.»

The finding, reported here today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of ScienceNOW, suggests to the researcher that modern behaviors such as dolling up with jewelry may have originated from a need to communicate rather than a fundamental change in the human brain.

Rather, they write in a paper published online in the Journal of Anatomy, it appears the chin's emergence in modern humans arose from simple geometry: As our faces became smaller in our evolution from archaic humans to today — in fact, our faces are roughly 15 percent shorter than Neanderthals» — the chin became a bony prominence, the adapted, pointy emblem at the bottom of our face.

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.

Now, the view of the ancient genome is so clear that Meyer and his colleagues were able to detect for the first time that Denisovans, like modern humans, had 23 pairs of chromosomes, rather than 24 pairs, as in chimpanzees.

If, as many researchers believe, early modern humans replaced the Neanderthals in Western Asia and Europe between 45 000 and 30 000 years ago, rather than evolved from them, the Levantine early moderns should show signs of «human» social and cultural behaviour distinct from that of the Neanderthals.

Many anthropologists have assumed, based on observations of sometimes polygamous modern - day hunter - gatherers, that the basic social unit of early humans was the band or tribe rather than the family.

[3] At the time of the Piltdown «discovery,» human ancestors had been found only in Europe, and there was substantial national pride at stake in believing Britain to be birthplace of modern humans, rather than southern Africa.

«Most researchers studying late human evolution will use the term to refer to older lineages, not directly linked to modern lineages, rather than (meaning) less evolved and adapted, or less clever,» Douka said.

Furthermore, studies have demonstrated that modern human variation is generally continuous, rather than discrete or «racial,» and that most variation in modern humans is within, rather than between, populations [11], [17].

The board and membership of the Weston A. Price Foundation stand united in the belief that modern technology should be harnessed as a servant to the wise and nurturing traditions of our ancestors rather than used as a force destructive to the environment and human health; and that science and knowledge can validate those traditions.

The board and membership of the Weston A. Price Foundation stand united in the belief that modern technology should be harnessed as a servant to the wise and nurturing traditions of our ancestors rather than used as a force that is destructive to the environment and human health; and that science and knowledge can validate those traditions.

The board, staff and membership of the Weston A. Price Foundation stand united in the belief that modern technology should be harnessed as a servant to the wise and nurturing traditions of our ancestors rather than used as a force destructive to the environment and human health; and that science and knowledge can validate those traditions.