Sentences with phrase «small modern humans»

Within days of the publication of the cretinism paper, investigators led by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg announced that they had discovered small modern human bones ranging in age from 1,400 to 2,900 years old in two caves in Palau, Micronesia.

In the paper published in eLife, the researchers describe Homo naledi «as being similar in size and weight to a small modern human, with human - like hands and feet.»

Not exact matches

«The initial dispersals out of Africa prior to 60,000 years ago were likely by small groups of foragers, and at least some of these early dispersals left low - level genetic traces in modern human populations.

Excoffier and his colleagues developed theoretical models predicting that if modern humans migrated as small bands, then the populations that broke off from their original African family should progressively accumulate slightly harmful mutations — a mutation load.

The fossil pits look nearly identical to those of small peaches grown today, indicating that the fruit evolved naturally hundreds of thousands of years before the origin of modern humans.

Smaller, more specialized Middle Stone Age tools appearing along with pigment «provide strong indicators that by around 300,000 years ago we were well on our way to becoming modern humans in Africa,» she holds.

And that, they say, supports the possibility that LB1 is a diseased member of a small - bodied modern human population.

But within days skeptics emerged, countering that the tiny remains instead belonged to a small - bodied population of modern humans and that LB1 — with her tiny brain and other odd features — was a diseased member of the group.

Some suggested Flo was a diseased modern human, related to pygmies but suffering from a condition like microcephaly, which causes the brain and head to be pathologically small.

It's an uncomfortable thought: Human activity causing the extinction of thousands of species, and the only way to slow or prevent that phenomenon is to have smaller families and forego some of the conveniences of modern life, from eating beef to driving cars, according to Stanford University scientists Paul Ehrlich and Robert Pringle.

The findings lend support to the idea that these early modern humans were more advanced with maritime technology than previously thought, and that they were capable of thriving on small, geographically isolated islands.

Modern humans have been on the move ever since a small band of people migrated out of Africa more than 50,000 years ago.

Neanderthal genetic material is found in only small amounts in the genomes of modern humans because, after interbreeding, natural selection removed large numbers of weakly deleterious Neanderthal gene variants, according to a study by Ivan Juric and colleagues at the University of California, Davis, published November 8th, 2016 in PLOS Genetics.

Judging from fossil remains, scientists say the Boskops were similar to modern humans but had small, childlike faces and huge melon heads that held brains about 30 percent larger than our own.

The brain of H. habilis was considerably smaller than that of modern humans, but larger than that of Australopithecus, the family widely viewed as its ancestors.

The cave, which has many archaeological layers spanning 100,000 years, has yielded both Neandertal and modern human stone tools and a small collection of hominin bones too fragmentary to be identified.

By now, the fossils have made it clear that these pioneers were startlingly primitive, with small bodies about 1.5 meters tall, simple tools, and brains one - third to one - half the size of modern humans».

This ancient individual had small front teeth like a modern human but larger molars like a more primitive human ancestor.

«DNA will not be useful for many types of human trafficking, but if it can be used to identify just a small percentage of victims, then we have made progress in the fight against modern slavery.»

A small folded point of skin toward the top of each ear is occasionally found in modern humans.

Upon learning about Darwin's theory that all modern humans descended from a common ancestor close to the gorilla and originated in Africa — a continent that had fascinated him since he was a small child — he decided he would dedicate himself to tracing human origins.

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.

The team confirms that the Denisovans interbred with the ancestors of some living humans and found that Denisovans had little genetic diversity, suggesting that their small population waned further as populations of modern humans expanded.

I think, we, even a small percent of superiority in your ability to [deal] with cold, so we [know] modern humans had needles; they probably had sewn clothing, whereas Neandertals probably fastened their clothing together.

So most non-African modern humans have small amounts of DNA from Neanderthals and some other still - exotic prehistoric humans.

Their small size, thin roots and flat crowns are typical for anatomically modern humans — H. sapiens — and the overall shape of the teeth is barely distinguishable from those of both ancient and present - day humans.

The «Out of Africa» hypothesis posits that modern humans evolved from a small population in Africa and replaced all other hominin populations, including Neandertals, as they migrated into Europe and Asia.

Over the course of hominin (modern humans and their fossil ancestors) evolution, molars have changed markedly in their configuration, with some groups developing larger cusps and others evolving molars with a battery of smaller extra cusps.

These highly successful early bipedal hominins such as Ardipithecus ramidus or Australopithecus afarensis, were nevertheless relatively small - brained, with a cranial capacity of about 450cm3 compared with modern humans with over 1,500 cm3.

The 2004 discovery of Homo floresiensis (SN: 10/30/04, p. 275: Evolutionary Shrinkage: Stone Age Homo find offers small surprise) suggested that this apparently close relative of Homo sapiens may have coexisted with modern humans as recently as 12,000 years ago (see «Little Ancestor, Big Debate,» in this week's issue).

Neanderthal DNA from a femur offers scientists proof that a small human group left Africa and disappeared long before the ancient human migration that spearheaded modern human population.

Neanderthals created artifacts similar to ones made at about the same time by modern humans arriving in Europe, such as body ornaments and small blades.

Because its brain was far smaller than any human, creationists have no choice but to call this an ape, despite the fact that 1470 looks more similar to 1813 than it does to a modern human skull.

«Yet the wrist, hands, legs and feet look more like those of Neanderthals and modern humans, and the teeth are relatively small and simple, and set in lightly built jawbones.»

A supposed new species of human with an exceptionally small brain and an unusual combination of both primitive and more modern human - like features has been discovered in a remote South African cave chamber, according to research published in the journal eLIFE.

A newly found, small - brained human relative might have shared the African landscape with modern humans and probably other hominids between 226,000 and 335,000 years ago.

«Modern humans (in Africa) developed the bow and arrow, as well as spear throwers, which allowed hunting at arms» length and often focused on smaller prey.»

The descendants of the small group of migrating modern humans who crossed from Africa into Arabia at the Red Sea gradually expanded and dispersed.

Exploring the theme of communication, Auel assumes that the Neanderthals lack the full vocal development of modern humans and has the clan using a mixture of gestures and body language to supplement their small vocabulary.

Modern men of that stature would be expected to have a larger than average brain size, but the Turkana Boy's estimated adult brain size of 910 cc is smaller than all but a fraction of 1 % of modern humans of all sizes and both Modern men of that stature would be expected to have a larger than average brain size, but the Turkana Boy's estimated adult brain size of 910 cc is smaller than all but a fraction of 1 % of modern humans of all sizes and both modern humans of all sizes and both sexes.

It's cranial capacity was the smallest ever recorded in an adult early human, and at 410 cc it was not much larger than that of a modern chimpanzee.

This is smaller than most modern humans but by no means all of them, and it is larger on average than pygmies.

H. erectus skulls are much smaller than those of equivalently - sized modern humans.

So although the extreme lower range of modern human brain sizes does overlap that of Homo erectus, their skulls are very different: in H. erectus, the brain case really is smaller in relation to the rest of the skull.

On the other hand fossil OH 62 proves that «habilis ``, far from being Homo - like, was small and ape - like - these cases were the very opposite of what evolution theory predicted and expected.103 Even though the brain size of WT 15000 was smaller than most modern humans, it was still larger than quite a few people living today.

Note that (in reference to Krings et al. 2007) because two modern human sequences are 24 bases apart, while the smallest Neandertal / human difference is only 22, this does not mean that the Neandertal sequence is within the range of modern humans.

With the help of a ditzy tabloid reporter he digs into a plot that involves a small army of ET's cousins in human faces (marching into modern day New York dressed like they've stepped out of Happy Days), a lonely man in an insane asylum who may not be crazy after all, and the US government.

Whether it is an urban clinic providing high quality care to beloved family pets or a small rural veterinary practice, the American people expect that their pets will receive the same level of care a human can find in a modern hospital.

Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my graffiti writer language with my modern figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»

Modern human civilization has developed and thrived in the last 10,000 years during a very narrow window of temperature and CO2 concentrations, a very small fluctuation around 280 ppm.