Sentences with phrase «tracing human origins»

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.

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The model traces its origins to 2003, when enterprising human - resources executives Jody Thompson and Cali Ressler floated the idea to Best Buy.

We can trace the evolution of humans back to about 3 billion years ago and the origins of the Universe to about 13.72 billion years ago.

Bloom traces the origin of values to Friedrich Nietzsche, who preached the supremacy of the human will and its ability to create good and evil.

Traces of common origins were everywhere: Humans even possessed a broken version of the gene that lizards and birds use to produce eggs.

Brexit was on the mind of many, because it could severely hinder the ability of European scientists to work in the U.K. Francisco Diego, an astronomer at University College London, reminded the crowd that science has shown all humans trace their origins back to Africa.

Moeller found that two of three major families of gut bacteria in apes and humans trace their origins to a common ancestor more than 15 million years ago, not primarily to bugs picked up from their environment.

The results suggest that all modern humans can trace their origin to a population that lived near the border between South Africa and Namibia — although Tishkoff stresses that these people may have moved into the area from elsewhere.

«The evidence is really convincing,» says microbiologist Mark Achtman of the Max - Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, principal investigator of an international team that traced the origins of the bacteria in modern humans.

Humans have been obsessed with their ancestry for millennia, yet it wasn't until the advent of DNA sequencing that scientists had the hard data to begin tracing origins to various parts of the globe.

Joss Bland - Hawthorn at the University of Sydney in Australia likens this to DNA sequencing of humans, which can help trace people's origins.

Often more than one SNP differs between one population of humans and another — for example, mitochondrial genomes whose origin can be traced to France differ in a number of SNPs from those in people in Central Asia.

We developed and implemented such a nomenclature for the European human pluripotent stem cell registry (hPSCreg), which needs to: 1) unambiguously identify a registered cell line; 2) allow tracing of subclones of a particular line; and 3) enable the assignment of different lines to a specific donor origin.

Tracing the origins of body brokering from the «resurrectionists» of the 19th century to the entrepreneurs of today, Cheney chronicles how demand for cadavers has long driven unscrupulous funeral home, crematorium and medical school personnel to treat human bodies as commodities.

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Of the 49 rabies cases reported in humans since 1995, 10 were the result of dog bites that occurred outside of the U.S.; the remainder were traced either to wildlife or were of unknown origins.

Exhibits trace Hawaii's history from its volcanic origins and the flora and fauna that arrived before humans to life in ancient Hawaii and the immigrant groups that helped shape Hawaii's unique culture of today

Some objects retain a trace of the original human touch or utilitarian function, whereas others are so smeared with paint, dirt and hair that their origin is maskedduring the creative process.

At the Natural History Museum it has been instrumental in the development of contemporary theories of human evolution, including research that has traced the origin of anatomically modern humans to sub-Saharan Africa.

by Shanghai artist Liu Yi first comes into sight; the artwork unfolds the chapter of human origins by tracing back into the Western art history in a humorous way.

In these fragmented images where one doesn't know where something starts and where it begins, where the notions of origins and originals are deconstructed, the theme of violence is metaphorically being reproduced — the spectators are exposed to the traces of violence on amputated human bodies.

«The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization....

In Equality Deferred, Dominique Clément traces the history of sex discrimination in Canadian law and the origins of human rights legislation.

Anthropologists trace the origins of human beings in terms of their physical social and cultural origins.

This is a cutting - edge tour de force that traces human family life from its origins in Africa over 20 million years ago to the Internet dating sites and bedrooms of today.