Sentences with phrase «recent human evolution»

My group compares genomes to study recent human evolution and disease.

Evidence for positive selection on a number of microRNA regulatory interactions during recent human evolution Li, J., Y. Liu, X. Xin, T. S. Kim et al. 2012.

In a study in Current Anthropology in August, paleoanthropologist Robert Franciscus of the University of Iowa in Iowa City and his colleagues identified some of the same changes in recent human evolution.

Taken together, the skeletal and genetic evidence convinced Hawks that the ruling «static» view of recent human evolution was not only wrong but also quite possibly the opposite of the truth.

«It is likely that human races are evolving away from each other,» says University of Utah anthropologist Henry Harpending, who coauthored a major paper on recent human evolution.

A best - seller by former New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade about recent human evolution and its potential effects on human cultures has drawn critical reviews since its spring publication.

Modeling recent human evolution in mice by expression of a selected EDAR variant.

This and other evidence, say study authors Svante Pbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues, «strongly suggest that this gene has been the target of selection during recent human evolution.»

«The evolution of lactase persistence is one of the best known and most dramatic examples of recent human evolution One of the ironies of working in this area is that we know it happened but we still don't fully know why» says Sverrisdóttir.

The study, «Classic selective sweeps were rare in recent human evolution,» is published in Science on February 18th.

«This is by far the largest twin study of gene expression ever published, enabling us to make a roadmap of genes versus environment,» Sullivan says, adding that the study measured relationships with disease more precisely than had been previously possible, and uncovered important connections to recent human evolution and genetic influence in disease.

The book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, contends that human races are a biological reality and that recent human evolution has led to racial differences in economic and social behavior.

New analyses suggest that recent human evolution has followed a different course than biologists would have expected

Evidence for positive selection on a number of microRNA regulatory interactions during recent human evolution.