Implications for Human Evolution
Fixation of the Human-Specific CMP-N-Acetylneuraminic Acid Hydroxylase Pseudogene and Implications of Haplotype Diversity for Human Evolution
... ABSTRACT The human CMP-N-acetylneuraminic acid hydroxylase gene (CMAH) suffered deletion of an exon that encodes an active center for the enzyme 3.2 million years ago (MYA). We analyzed a 7.3-kb intronic region of ...
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Pairwise comparisons of mitochondrial DNA sequences in subdivided populations and implications for early human evolution.
... FIGURE 3.-Frequency distributions of pairwise differences for six replicate simulations of a sample of size 50 from an exponentially growing population that is subdivided accord[r] ...
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The role of plantigrady and heel strike in the mechanics and energetics of human walking with implications for the evolution of the human foot
... both human-like HS, initial contact with the heel and midfoot simultaneously, and NHS walking, as examined ...the evolution of consistent HS walking occurred some time within the hominin lineage, either ...
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Journal of Human Evolution
... Given the importance of the Apidima specimens and the small amount of information on them that currently exists, we re- examine the metric data published for Apidima 2. We 1) test the original nine reported measurements ...
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Journal of Human Evolution
... Because of the signi fi cant implications that follow from the speci fi c attribution of the Gondolin Paranthropus molar, we Figure 1. Location of Early Pleistocene Paranthropus -bearing s[r] ...
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Journal of Human Evolution
... We examine the links between geomorphological processes, specific landscape features, surface water drainage, and the creation of suitable habitats for hominins. The existence of mosaic (i.e., heterogeneous) habitats ...
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Journal of Human Evolution
... Binford (1981) suggested that the associations of stone tools with animal remains were coincidental at some sites, likely reflecting time-averaged palimpsest accumulations. At the same time, however, documentation of ...
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Darwin's doubt : implications of the theory of evolution for human knowledge
... stumbled upon the Platypus, an egg-laying, breast-feeding species living in remote corners of Australia and Tasmania. This, of course, is the result of evolution, where species drift in and out of larger ...
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Linkage disequilibrium in human ribosomal genes: implications for multigene family evolution.
... In Table 2 we see that there is substantial variation among individuals in the frequencies of both the length variants and the pres- ence or absence of the BglII rest[r] ...
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Evolution of influenza A virus PB2 genes: implications for evolution of the ribonucleoprotein complex and origin of human influenza A virus.
... Abbreviations: B, B-AA66; EP, EQPR56; SW, classic HlNl swine; EQ, recent equine; SH (SW-Human), ancestor node of human and swine lineages (labeled 1910 on Fig. 2, left); and A (avian), a[r] ...
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In silico characterisation and chromosomal localisation of human RRH (peropsin) – implications for opsin evolution
... Conclusions Using GenBank database searches we have been able to determine that the human peropsin gene, RRH, comprises seven exons spanning about 16.5 kb. By assembling se- quences from large genomic clones we ...
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Brazilian Undergraduate Students’ Conceptions on the Origins of Human Social Behavior: Implications for Teaching Evolution
... of human social behavior are poorly ...of human behavior expressed by a group of 1,212 Brazilian university ...explain human social ...typically human are better explained by nurture-based ...
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Differential virus restriction patterns of rhesus macaque and human APOBEC3A: Implications for lentivirus evolution
... The human apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme catalytic peptide-like 3 (APOBEC3; A3) family of proteins (A3A-H) are known to restrict various retroviruses and retroelements, but the full complement of rhesus ...
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The Trajectory of Evolution and Its Implications for Humanity
... overall, evolution is not directional or ...of evolution on a firm scientific ...the implications of evolutionary directionality and progress would undermine their attempts to establish the study of ...
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The Purposes and Implications of Early Experimental Evolution
... distinguishable and observable, but this did not mean they were necessarily controllable. While Hugo de Vries had advocated for such control, the mutation theory itself did not elaborate upon how to do so: in fact, de ...
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Evolution of influenza A virus nucleoprotein genes: implications for the origins of H1N1 human and classical swine viruses.
... The common pattern of relationship and origin for the NP and other genes of HlNl human and classical swine viruses suggests that the common ancestor was an avian virus and not a reassort[r] ...
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Aridification of the Indian subcontinent during the Holocene : implications for landscape evolution, sedimentation, carbon cycle, and human civilizations
... past human population in the region, biased towards sedentary agriculturalists who would have lived at higher population densities than hunters or shifting cultivators ...of human populations of sites may ...
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Variation and evolution of herkogamy in Exochaenium (Gentianaceae): implications for the evolution of distyly.
... and evolution of herkogamy in the poorly known African genus Exochaenium of the ...the implications of these findings for the evolution and breakdown of heterostyly and consider the role that ...
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Archaeology and Human Evolution
... to Human Evolution? The archaeological record provides a unique, long-term view of the evolution of human ...of human evolution includes an examination of the physical, genetic, ...
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Tectonics and human evolution
... 2 hunting of large herbivore herds on the steppe-tundra of Pleistocene Europe and the grasslands of the Great Plains in North America seems to have appeared relatively late in the prehistoric sequence and perhaps in some ...
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