Sentences with phrase «suggest humans reached»

Fresh excavations at famed site of Monte Verde suggest humans reached South America by 18,500 years ago

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If the horrors of the modern age suggest that human evil is perhaps even more awful in its reach than he imagined, it is also the case that there is a broadly shared human revulsion against such evil.

They point to a report by the federal Department of Health and Human Services last fall suggesting that academic gains made in the early education Head Start program fade by the time the children reach third grade.

Impressions left by a large claw on the innermost toe on the dinosaur's front foot (the analog of the human thumb) indicate that the still - unknown species was located near the base of the sauropod family tree, and the sizes of the footprints — in some cases 70 centimeters across — suggest that the behemoths grew to reach 15 meters in length and weighed up to 10 metric tons, the researchers report online today in the Scottish Journal of Geology.

Previous research suggests that, during the last ice age (which ended around 11,700 years ago), humans moved into the Americas from Asia across what was then a land bridge to North America, eventually reaching what is now the west coast of British Columbia, Canada as well as coastal regions to the south.

Ancient DNA studies had already suggested that humans from Africa reached Southeast Asian islands before 60,000 years ago.

More important, a convergence of observations suggests that cosmic neutrinos spring from the same astrophysical sources as other particles from space: highly energetic photons called gamma rays, and mysterious ultra-high energy cosmic rays — protons and heavier atomic nuclei that reach energies a million times higher than humans have achieved with particle accelerators.

This showed that an abundance of nutritious foods were available and suggests this was likely to have been the dominant factor driving early humans to focus on these sites in the lower reaches of river valleys, close to the upper tidal limit of rivers.

A controversial find of stone tools in Brazil suggests that humans somehow reached the Americas at the height of the last ice age

After analyzing human DNA from several populations around the world and examining primate genomes dating back to the shared ancestor of both humans and chimpanzees, researchers reached a striking conclusion that several gene variants linked to schizophrenia were actually positively selected and remained largely unchanged over time, suggesting that there was some advantage to having them.

New genetic evidence instead suggests that wild precursors to sweet potatoes reached Polynesia at least 100,000 years ago — long before humans inhabited the South Pacific islands, researchers report April 12 in Current Biology.

Living in these areas was associated with a low Human Development Index score, which measures education, standard of living and health, suggesting that children will have a hard time developing to reach their full potential in the current conditions.

Strongly influenced by the Surrealists and the idea of automatism — the belief that the artist's undirected hand could reach deep into the unconscious — he layered skeins of fine, interlaced lines and overlapping luminous forms that suggested microscopic views of human tissue or plant specimens, land masses seen from an airplane or undiscovered worlds exploding into being.

So far - reaching is the impact of modern humans that esteemed palaeoclimatologist Wally Broecker has suggested that we have not entered a new geological epoch, a relatively minor event on the geologic time scale, but a new era — the Anthropozoic — on a par in Earth history with the development of multicellular life.

The most troubling data suggests that since the 1950s, the human enterprise has led to an explosive acceleration that will reach criticality within the next few decades as different systems reach a point - of - no - return tipping point.

However, as Dockrill reported in Science Alert, the University of Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy flips this thinking around suggesting that, «once the sophistication of computer thinking reaches a level basically akin to human consciousness, it's our duty to look after the welfare of machines, much as we do that of people.»

While it could be suggested that the themes with which we engaged over the two days emanate from the darker reaches of the human psyche, with the attendant assumption, therefore, that a pall of gloom hung heavy over the participants, I am happy to report that the opposite was the case.