Sentences with phrase «where human ancestors»

Evidence of large mammal extinctions appeared as early as the beginning of the Pleistocene in Africa, where human ancestors were evolving alongside them, Smith said.

Now researchers are drilling cores to gather geological data in the African landscapes where human ancestors once lived.

On a hot January morning 2 years ago, Chalachew Seyoum was searching for fossils at a desolate site in Ethiopia called Ledi - Geraru, where no human ancestor had turned up in a decade of searching.

Not exact matches

Richard Dawkins does exactly that in «The Ancestor's Tale» and shows you exactly where each branching occurred as he traces human ancestry back to the primordial ooze.

Where is the dust that has not been alive The spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors; From human mould we reap our daily bread.

ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.

This is where human morality originated as even the burried remains show that our ancient ancestors cared for those in their social groups and cave paintings show that knowledge was being passed down from one generation to the next more than 45,000 years ago.

Analysing the ways that mitochondrial DNA sequences differ across a large number of living people has helped to establish prehistoric population trends, but this record stretches back only 200,000 years to the point where all humans alive today shared a common female ancestor.

If he is right, our ancestors lived in Europe and only later migrated to Africa, where modern humans are thought to have evolved.

«Think of early human ancestors, where we have only scattered fossil fragments, and the problem of relying on morphology is obvious.»

If he is right, our hominid ancestors lived in Europe and only later migrated to Africa, where modern humans evolved.

Human DNA is 1 to 2 % Neandertal, or more, depending on where your ancestors lived.

Previous research had established the wolf as the ancestor of today's dog, but when and where humans first domesticated the animals remained unclear.

The distant ancestors of modern Tibetans interbred with extinct humans called Denisovans, and picked up a gene for living up where the air is thin

And it showed that the domestication of cassava occurred in a place where humans have had their longest association with the wild ancestor of the plant.

By looking for areas with distinctively rapid mutation, his team hoped to pinpoint a human genetic signature — stretches of DNA where change has been selected for over the 6 million or 7 million years since the two species shared a common ancestor.

Wong: No, those are not the remains so far as we know of the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans but they get that pretty close to where we think that last common ancestor was.

«We can predict that the ancestors of humans were living in large groups, where facial expressions were really important,» Santana says.

Across the Mediterranean Sea (upper left and center) is Europe; far below Egypt is East Africa and sites where remains of early ancestors of humans have been unearthed.

In March of 2010, a finger bone of a formerly unknown human ancestor, later called Denisovan, was found in a Siberian cave where modern human remains and Neanderthal remains also were found.

It is critical to know where the human lineage arose so that we can reconstruct the circumstances leading to our divergence from the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees.»

Author of books: Atmospheres of Mars and Venus (1961, nonfiction) Planets (1966, nonfiction, with Jonathan Norton Leonard) Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966, nonfiction, with Iosif S. Shklovskii) Planetary Exploration (1970, nonfiction) Planetary Atmospheres (1971, nonfiction, with Tobias C. Owen and Harlan J. Smith) U.F.O.'s: A Scientific Debate (1972, with Thornton Page) The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973, nonfiction) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1973, nonfiction) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977, nonfiction) Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record (1978, nonfiction) Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979, nonfiction) Cosmos (1980, nonfiction) Comet (1985, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Contact (1985, novel) Nuclear Winter (1985, nonfiction) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (1990, nonfiction, with Richard P. Turco) The Demon - Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996, essays) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are (1992, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994, essays) Billions and Billions (1996, essays) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006, nonfiction, posthumous, with Ann Druyan)

The history may go back even farther: recent anthropology speculates that the common human - chimp ancestor may have been bipedal and lived in open woodlands where starches but not sugary fruits were the predominant food.

Taking place in a dystopian future where humans have once again formed tribes and the machines of their ancestors have become sentient creatures, you play as Aloy, an outcast in search of the truth of her past and the world she lives in.

For those of us unable to accompany him on the 21,000 - mile journey, one where he will «retrace the migratory pathways of our human ancestors,» we can follow him on his blog, on the Out of Eden Learn website, or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.