Sentence examples for modern traits from inspiring English sources

The Malapa fossils showed an odd mixture of primitive and modern traits.

There are several other modern traits as well, including the orientation of the lateral borders of the nose.

According to their systems, anyone can learn to be more efficient, more focussed, more effective in the pursuit of happiness and, that most hallowed of modern traits, productivity.

But the fossils also show some surprisingly modern traits usually found only in members of our own genus, Berger said.

With both primitive and more modern traits, it is a bridge between our genus and its ancestors and points to when and where that evolutionary transition took place.

The discoverers say that this hominin shows some surprisingly modern traits and its species may even be an ancestor of our own genus.

The bidding had a modern trait to it.

For this reason, neuroticism almost always appears in modern trait models of personality, though sometimes with slightly different theoretical formulations or names (such as trait anxiety, repression-sensitization, ego-resiliency, and negative emotionality).

If the assumption is valid, then the current uniformitarian applications are warranted, and modern trait-climate relations should estimate past climate in a quantitatively precise manner.

Henshilwood and others point to this small but growing record of earlier artistic objects from Africa as evidence that modern behavioral traits, such as the use of external symbols, developed gradually over a couple of hundred thousand years, not suddenly after our ancestors emerged from Africa, as some archaeologists have proposed.Not everyone finds the Blombos beads so persuasive.

So far, no study has addressed the validity of this widely used measure using modern latent trait models.