What can be teased out of the small percentage of the genome distinguishing modern human groups?
But throughout modern human history, the fish hook has proven to be one of our most dependable tools.
Modern human beings have been on this earth about 100, 000 years and have been falling love for just as long.
Modern human populations grew, Neanderthal populations shrank, and the rest is prehistory.
This scenario implies that several variants of modern human language could have emerged somewhat independently in different locations, rather than solely in Africa.
WSJ: Study Points to a Single, Original Language for All Humans
Because these findings are the oldest of their kind, it suggests our modern human behavior began in Africa and has been developing ever since.
In very non-scientific terms, it can be described as a type of ape-man with anatomical similarities to the modern ape and the modern human.
Those with alternative agendas may also try to use these new data to rank modern human populations in terms of supposedly different degrees of modernity.
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"The bone that was recovered from the Hadar site has all the hallmarks of the form and function of the modern human foot, " he told the BBC.
This could have sealed the case for the Hobbit as a new species, rather than a modern human pygmy or diseased individual - as some researchers have suggested it is.
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The tablet phenomenon in the world today is bigger than the size of its memory chip, more awe-inspiring than the speed of its processor it is a wonder of our time, and in an ever more connected and computerized world, it may be the perfect tool for the industrious, creative, modern human.
By looking for overlaps between these fragments and fitting the resulting contiguous sequences to reference sequences from humans and Neanderthals the team were able to come up with a DNA sequence for most of the mitochondrion, and it was nothing like one that would have been expected from either a modern human or a Neanderthal.
And of all the sciences brought to bear in modern automobiles, human-factors engineering seems to be evolving fastest.
It is worth noting that the committee included the famously tough Reid Bryson, father of the modern notion that human beings could change the climate.
Here was a complex problem: how to reconcile Britain's traditional gift for formal ceremony with the modern desire for the human touch.
The new exhibit will be displayed alongside a number of modern artworks relating to human health and wellbeing in the Wellcome Collection's Medicine Now gallery.
Mythology was not about theology, in the modern sense, but about human experience.
His stamping ground is "the moral, emotional, and political colourings of the concept of human nature in modern life".
She has also contributed stories to CNN's Freedom Project which is exposing human trafficking and modern day slavery in countries worldwide.
Clearly, the modern day cubicle is more human than the Dickensian sweatshop, just as Skype is more personal than a telephone.
Not For Sale, based in the Bay Area, fights human trafficking and modern-day slavery around the planet through its work in mainstream supply chains.
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Duplicative investment in China, and the consequent low utilization rate of capital investment, led to widespread industrialization and an explosive growth of human capital in modern manufacturing.
Today, faith leaders and laypeople are at the forefront of the fights for immigration reform in our own country and against poverty, mass atrocities, human trafficking and modern day slavery around the world.
These taken for granted systems are what modern societies depend on to sustain human life.
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As great forces of history converge to human scale, this modern-day boom town feels like the Wild West but without the confident self-reliance: the articulate residents are painfully aware of the close link between their sustenance and their misery, and international bureaucrats reveal a terrible disconnection from the reality on the ground as they encourage the unchecked development.
User interface (UI) is one of the most impactful manifestations of human centred design in our modern society.
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The reason why, unfortunately, is that it may signal the end of the road for one of the greatest technological achievements of modern times, the U.S. human spaceflight program.
However, the notion that human pilots have no future on the modern battlefield finds few takers among military professionals.
Moral philosophers examine areas that modern-day domain experts too often ignore: human values, core beliefs and character.
The study also found that the pattern of phoneme usage globally mirrors the pattern of human genetic diversity, which also declined as modern humans set up colonies elsewhere.
WSJ: Study Points to a Single, Original Language for All Humans
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