Sentences with phrase «think early modern humans»

«I think early modern humans viewed Neanderthals as a different group, as «the other,»» he says.

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In the early modern period, political thinkers formulated a new conception of natural law, whose distinctive character has defined a distinctively modern tradition of thought about natural or human rights.

And recent finds in Africa have pushed back the start date for our species» long love affair with the material, hinting that modern human cognition may have developed much earlier than we thought.

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.

«This means that modern humans emerged earlier than previously thought,» says Mattias Jakobsson, population geneticist at Uppsala University who headed the project together with Stone Age archaeologist Marlize Lombard at the University of Johannesburg.

«We are not claiming that Morocco became the cradle of modern humankind,» Hublin says, «We think early forms of humans were present all over Africa.»

It also appears that humans were writing words with the modern alphabet much earlier than previously thought.

Pääbo, for his part, says that now that his team has shown that early modern humans interbred with one archaic group, he thinks other archaic humans might have passed along genes to us through interbreeding.

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.

DEEP PAST A new comparison of ancient and modern human DNA concludes that Homo sapiens emerged earlier than typically thought, perhaps around 350,000 years ago.

«Scientists discover oldest known modern human fossil outside of Africa: Analysis of fossil suggests Homo sapiens left Africa at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.»

Whether it is modern medicine's prolonging of life or the fashioning of hunting tools in earliest times, it is hard to think of any milestone in human progress that did not have a technological breakthrough behind it.

They are now considered to have been intelligent (as smart as early modern humans, some anthropologists think), perhaps red - haired and pale - skinned, and capable of speech.

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 tEarlier 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 tearlier than previously thought.

He was expecting to find the remains of an early modern human — Neanderthals were thought to be long extinct by that time — but the boy's skeleton was different.

By using highly advanced brain imaging technology to observe modern humans crafting ancient tools, an Indiana University neuroarchaeologist has found evidence that human - like ways of thinking may have emerged as early as 1.8 million years ago.

The conclusions drawn states that modern humans emerged earlier than previously thought.

New discoveries show modern humans have likely dispersed into the Asian continent 60,000 years earlier than previously thought.

This timeframe suggests that early modern humans or Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa thousands of years earlier than what scientists previously thought.

NEW YORK — The skull of a newly discovered 325 - million - year - old shark - like species suggests that early cartilaginous and bony fishes have more to tell us about the early evolution of jawed vertebrates — including humans — than do modern sharks, as was previously thought.

Just think: Someday you could walk among the Neanderthals, just as the earliest modern humans once did — and realize that history really does repeat itself [source: Edwards].