Sentences with phrase «recent human adaptation»

«Our findings suggest that recent human adaptation has not taken place through the arrival and spread of single changes of large effect, but through shifts of frequency in many places of the genome,» said Molly Przeworski, PhD, professor of Human Genetics and Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago and co-senior author of the paper.

Not exact matches

Squeeze a baseball or pen between your thumb and the tips of your fingers: You are using what researchers call a precision grip, a highly evolved adaptation thought to be unique to modern humans and our most recent ancestors.

Recent proponents of the aquatic ape hypothesis have pointed to much later watery adaptations, including early archaeological sites where humans have been shown to be exploiting coastal resources.

Sometimes, this takes the form of understanding recent adaptations that have evolved within human populations, which gives us an insight into the challenges that our ancestors faced and the kind of traits that helped them survive and prosper.

Human Revolution, the most recent entry in the videogame franchise, may not have received the publicity push that Assassin's Creed 3 did, but the project still holds some of the most potential out of the current games destined for adaptations.

It might be worth emphasising that whether or not there has been an acceleration of sea level rise during recent decades, mean sea level rise as such is a long term fixture which is unstoppable by any human agency and to which adaptation will perforce be necessary.