Sentences with phrase «studying prehistoric humans»

So with techniques normally used for studying prehistoric humans, researchers created a 3D image of Descartes's brain (above) by scanning the impression it left on the inside of his skull, which has been kept for almost 200 years now in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

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«This is the first genome - wide data on prehistoric humans from the hot tropics, and was made possible by improved methods for preparing skeletal remains» says Ron Pinhasi at University College Dublin, a senior author of the study.

The method was previously used on human organs as an anatomy study aid for medical students, and has since been adopted to digitally archive artifacts such as ancient pottery and prehistoric skulls so that students and researchers can interact with otherwise rarely handled specimens from museum collections.

For this study, the researchers looked at modern, historic and prehistoric human remains from South Africa, North Carolina and the Western Hemisphere Database.

Associate Professor Ian Smith, an Otago archaeologist involved in the study, says it seems that these contrasting wildlife histories reflect differences in prehistoric human - hunting pressure.

Now, a study of more than 100 dog burials in prehistoric Japan claims to provide the strongest evidence yet that early dogs did indeed help people hunt — and may have been critical to human survival in some parts of the world.

The ice reconstruction in this study provides a fascinating image of a changing Europe during the time prehistoric humans came to populate the continent.

Since 2008, an international research team led by Prof. Dr. Madelaine Böhme from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) of the University of Tübingen has been studying prehistoric ecosystems and fossils in Vietnam.

Archaeologists, who studied ancient tools, ornaments, and human remains in the prehistoric rock shelter Riparo Bombrini, discovered how early homo sapiens survived a climate - changing supervolcano eruption This discovery offered clues how humans can survive climate change.

An earlier study, which was published in the journal Science in March this year, provided evidence that prehistoric human ancestors interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans hundreds of thousands of years earlier.

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, presents compelling evidence that stone tool - making helped to drive the evolution of language and teaching among prehistoric human ancestors in the African savanna.

A new study, looking at the sex - specifically inherited X chromosome of prehistoric human remains, shows that hardly any women took part in the extensive migration from the Pontic - Caspian Steppe approximately 5,000 years ago.

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