Sentences with phrase «very early ancestor»

People think our very early ancestors were carnivores, but the work of Perry & Dominy on the amylase gene suggests otherwise.

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It's also really illuminating, I think, to realize that very early on our ancestors, meaning the people who created scripture, metaphorized their history, and we have often then historicized their metaphors.

Indeed, a very early remnant of the witnessing tradition posited a striking contrast, as we have had occasion to notice before in Chapter Two: «The God of our ancestors raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree» (Acts 5:30, emphasis mine).

To survive, our early ancestors had to do several things repeatedly and very well: locate food, escape predators, mate and protect offspring.

«The papaya Y might well resemble the ancestor of the human Y at a very early stage of evolution,» Ming says.

Accessing Ancient Genomes — New techniques and very old bones pushed back the limits of genome sequencing for our early ancestors.

New techniques and very old bones overcome the limits of genome sequencing for prehistoric horses, ancient cave bears, and even our own early ancestors.

«The tiny size and very basal evolutionary position of Archicebus support the idea that the earliest primates, as well as the common ancestor of tarsiers and anthropoids, was miniscule.

Some of those fossils have been passed down from very early human ancestors.

Dr. Daniel Gebo, an expert on the evolution of body anatomy in primates, said that, «The tiny size and very basal evolutionary position of Archicebus support the idea that the earliest primates, as well as the common ancestor of tarsiers and anthropoids, were miniscule.

Very recently, scientists have been able to detect pigment - containing granules, called melanosomes, in some very early bird fossils, as well as in their immediate ancestors, the dinosaVery recently, scientists have been able to detect pigment - containing granules, called melanosomes, in some very early bird fossils, as well as in their immediate ancestors, the dinosavery early bird fossils, as well as in their immediate ancestors, the dinosaurs.

The dating of this species is significant, in that a date earlier than habilis makes this species the first habiline, and with its very large brain, a candidate for being a direct human ancestor.

They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.

James Siena's paintings are compact, intricate, finely crafted and geometric but at the same time very idiosyncratic abstractions, distantly related to early American modernists (he invokes Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley and Georgia O'Keefe as cherished ancestors).

I suggest look at the fossil sequences of human ancestors from early apes to australopithicus, homo erectus and homo habilis to homo sapiens, and notice how they morph one into the other quite smoothly, all explained by Darwinian evolution, while with respect the old testament verision is clearly a creation myth like you find in early greek and roman culture etc, an imaginative guess, and very implausible in light of our current understanding of things.