Sentence examples for more ancient human from inspiring English sources

Other palaeoanthropologists, however, interpret the unique traits of Homo floresiensis as reflecting its evolution from a more ancient human precursor like Homo habilis or even an australopithecine.

That this change is found neither in Neandertals nor in a more ancient human ancestor called H. heidelbergensis suggests a shortened sphenoid is a defining trait of our species.

Whilst the tephrochronological analysis at Ahrenshöft LA 58D by no means succeeded in providing a directly useful isochron for the considerably more ancient human occupation at the site, it did demonstrate that even open-air sites with shallow stratigraphies can yield fairly intact tephra deposits.

The history of B. anthracis in North America has certainly been affected by recent trade, and livestock movement [13], however here we present evidence that the introduction of this pathogen can be traced to much more ancient human migrations.

Are more ancient human genes really involved in more basal cellular functions?

Although humans generally experience lower inbreeding coefficients than many plant and animal species, it is very interesting to explore patterns of cryptic, more ancient inbreeding in humans, which may have strong effect on some human traits [ 19].

Now, another manlike species has been described using more traditional evidence, from a more traditional source of ancient human remains: Africa.The new species, dubbed Australopithecus sediba, is reported in Science this week by Lee Berger and his colleagues at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg.

Two other studies used molecular analysis to identify more recent plasmodial DNA in ancient human remains, i.e., from 100 400 years ago (3, 4 ).

We reasoned that younger breakpoints may show a greater correlation with afrotherian fragile sites than their more ancient counterparts identified in the human vs. afrotherian comparisons.

The Spanish team believe the more primitive population could be an ancient human species called Homo antecessor, which lived in Europe around one million years ago.

And it seems likely that as DNA from more ancient remains is analyzed still other human relatives will be found; as Chris Stringer, a prominent British paleoanthropologist, told me, "I'm sure we've got more surprises to come".