Sentences with phrase «suggested modern humans were»

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Paleoanthropologists have disproven the basic premise that the modern human digestive system is the same as that of early humans, but research also suggests that a diet of unprocessed, hormone - free meat sources coupled with fresh fruits and vegetables has clear benefits.

Not only does this suggest modern humans might have been stepping tentatively into Europe and getting friendly with Neanderthals long before the wave of migration that led to today's population, it shows Neanderthals were more diverse than we thought.

Heidegger's presentation of the possibilities of human existence suggests that they are applicable to man as such, and not, say, only to modern European man.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

YOU seem to be suggesting that these modern concepts of human rights are leading us away from God and to hell, a belief that makes you a perfect example of why more and more people are rejecting Christianity!

Our modern conviction that human beings and their mentality have evolved through long ages from simpler and still simpler natural forms also suggests that there is some family connection between human experience and the entities of the natural world.

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.

A new, slightly morbid study based on the calorie counts of average humans suggests that human - eating was mostly ritualistic, not dietary, in nature among hominins including Homo erectus, H. antecessor, Neandertals, and early modern humans.

VANCOUVER — Traces of long - lost human cousins may be hiding in modern people's DNA, a new computer analysis suggests.

Blombos Cave, South Africa: Dated to about 100,000 years ago, ochre - processing «tool kits» and other artifacts found at the site — including an engraved piece of ochre, the oldest known art of its type — suggest early humans were capable of modern, complex behaviors much earlier than once thought.

Most scientists thought that the capability for such symbolic thinking was unique to modern humans, but a new study suggests that it dates back to before the Neandertals.

Brown suggests that forging tools was part of a «behavioural tool kit» that allowed the first modern humans to conquer the world.

«Our data show this process was ongoing two and a half million years ago, which allows us to consider a very drawn - out and gradual evolution of the modern human capacity for language and suggests simple «proto - languages» might be older than we previously thought,» Morgan added.

«These results are tantalizingly close to the earliest evidence for modern humans in the region, which might suggest a causal link to the subsequent disappearance of H. floresiensis,» Higham adds.

Dueling genetic studies based on the DNA of modern dogs and wolves suggest the fellowship between humans and dogs could have been forged in the Middle East, Central Asia, East Asia or, as Goyet's archaeological evidence suggests, in Europe.

This suggests strongly that there was an extensive overlapping period between Neanderthals and modern humans of several thousand years.

The authors suggest that human activity may even be driving a similar Lilliput - like pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate change.

The authors of the study, an international team from Portuguese, Spanish, Catalonian, German, Austrian and Italian research institutions, say their findings suggest that the process of modern human populations absorbing Neanderthal populations through interbreeding was not a regular, gradual wave - of - advance but a «stop - and - go, punctuated, geographically uneven history.»

«Several letters [from the Association of American Medical Colleges and others]... suggest that human fetal tissue is used for modern vaccine production.

This suggests one obvious conclusion, says Shannon McPherron at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany: «Neanderthals were being influenced by the modern humans.»

They found that the Neanderthal genome shows more similarity with non-African modern humans throughout Europe and Asia than with African modern humans, suggesting that the gene flow between us and Neanderthals most likely occurred outside Africa as humans were en route to Europe, Asia, and New Guinea.

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.

«None of the species that have been previously suggested as the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans has a dental morphology that is fully compatible with the expected morphology of this ancestor,» Gómez - Robles said.

«No known hominin is common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans, study suggests.»

Even ordinary studies of human physiology, for example, suggest that humans are so adapted for intense physical activity that a sedentary lifestyle spawns modern - day scourges like diabetes and heart disease.

If so, and if, as the team's estimates suggest, the variant became established in the human population during the last 200,000 years of human history — roughly the time at which anatomically modern humans arose — the gift of gab may have been a driving force in their expansion.

The fossil record and modern genetic analysis suggest that humans and all other living species are descended from bacteria - like microbes that first appeared about 4 billion years ago.

People from mainland Asia and west Indonesia didn't have any though, suggesting they are descendants of a second wave of modern humans across Asia — this time without Denisovan interbreeding.

THE Denisovans, mysterious cousins of the Neanderthals, occupied a vast realm stretching from the chill expanse of Siberia to the steamy tropical forests of Indonesia — suggesting the third human of the Pleistocene displayed a level of adaptability previously thought to be unique to modern humans.

Neanderthal remains are occasionally associated with such symbolic artifacts, but those pale in comparison with the artifacts produced by early modern humans, suggesting a significant gap in linguistic abilities.

Several dating techniques applied to archaeological materials and the fossil itself suggest the jawbone is between 175,000 - 200,000 years old, pushing back the modern human migration out of Africa by at least 50,000 years.

The new tooth also contains DNA unlike that of Neandertals or modern humans, suggesting that Denisovans interbred with an even more mysterious branch of the human family tree — one that is either unknown to science, or known only from fossils without preserved DNA.

Some archaeologists have suggested that they were absorbed into the population of modern humans.

In an analysis of the remarkably complete hands, paleoanthropologist Tracy Kivell of the University of Kent in the United Kingdom found that bones in the wrist were shaped like those in modern humans, suggesting that the palm at the base of the thumb was quite stiff.

This has suggested that female modern humans and male Neandertals were not fully compatible and that male Neandertals may have had problems with sperm production.

One hypothesis suggests that Neandertals were rigid in their dietary choice, targeting large herbivorous mammals, such as horse, bison and mammoths, while modern humans also exploited a wider diversity of dietary resources, including fish.

An analysis of a Neanderthal Y chromosome suggests human hybrids containing it would have been unviable, and explain why it is not found in modern humans

In addition, some of the oldest Flores remains date back before modern humans were thought to be in the area, which suggests that Flores Man was a distinct species.

DNA from Denisovans suggests they lived in Siberia for millennia and were more genetically diverse than Neandertals, but less diverse than modern humans

The researchers caution that it's impossible to draw broad conclusions about Neandertal life histories from this one sample, such as whether Neandertals weaned their children earlier or later than modern humans who lived at the same time, or whether Neandertal children grew up faster, as some earlier studies have suggested — questions that could heavily bear on why Neandertals could not keep up with modern humans in the survival sweepstakes.

Neanderthal (top) and reindeer (bottom) jawbones from the Les Rois cave show similar cut marks (details at right), suggesting that both were butchered by modern humans.

But two new papers suggest that they were at home on both the land and the sea: Studies of ancient and modern human DNA, including the first reported ancient DNA from early Middle Eastern farmers, indicate that agriculture spread to Europe via a coastal route, probably by farmers using boats to island hop across the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

The Atapuerca team suggests that the bones be reclassified as a new, still unnamed species that was the immediate ancestor of Neandertals, but not modern humans.

This curious pattern suggests several possible scenarios, including that male Denisovans interbred with female modern humans, or that these unions were genetically incompatible, with natural selection weeding out some of the X chromosomes, Reich says.

He and his colleagues argue that today's better understanding of the pace of evolution, human adaptability and the way the mind works all suggest that, contrary to cartoon stereotypes, modern humans are not just primitive savages struggling to make psychological sense of an alien contemporary world.

The DNA data suggest not one but at least two instances of interbreeding between archaic and modern humans, raising the question of whether Homo sapiens at that point was a distinct species (see sidebar).

The dates, based on new excavations and state - of - the - art methods, push back the earliest solid evidence for humans in Australia by 10,000 to 20,000 years and suggest that modern humans left Africa earlier than had been thought.

Earlier dating work by Lepre and Kent helped lead to another landmark paper in 2011: a study that suggested Homo erectus, another precursor to modern humans, was using more advanced tool - making methods 1.8 million years ago, at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought.

The discovery suggests that Denisovans were widely across Asia, and apparently co-existed happily with modern humans, to the point of having children with them in two different parts of the ancient world.

It's no surprise then that a study published 2 years ago created quite a stir by claiming that modern humans harbor a genetic signature suggesting our ancestors engaged heavily in the practice.