human lineage

collocation in English

meaningsofhumanandlineage

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human
adjective
uk
/ˈhjuː.mən/us
/ˈhjuː.mən/
being, relating to, or belonging to a person or to people as opposed ...
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lineage
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈlɪn.i.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈlɪn.i.ɪdʒ/
the members of a person's family who are directly related to that person and who lived a long time before him ...
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(Definition ofhumanandlineagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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By contrast the other two coding changes arose uniquely on thehumanlineage, after the split from the chimpanzee lineage, in the last 5-6 million years.
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The human genome has a layered structure and (up to a point) recapitulates the history of ourhumanlineage.
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The orangutan genome also has fewer rearrangements than the chimpanzee/humanlineage.
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Since mutation rate is relatively constant, roughly one half of these changes occurred in thehumanlineage.
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This is consistent with the dramatic divergence of the unique pattern of human brain development seen in thehumanlineagecompared to the ancestral great ape pattern.
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These regions contain at least one marker allele that seems unique to thehumanlineagewhile the entire chromosomal region shows lower than normal genetic variation.
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Ancient genome duplications are also found in the early ancestor of vertebrates (which includes thehumanlineage) and another near the origin of the bony fishes.
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Early estimates indicated that thehumanlineagemay have diverged from that of chimpanzees about five million years ago, and from that of gorillas about eight million years ago.
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Indeed, some humans even still develop vestigial vibrissal muscles in the upper lip, consistent with the hypothesis that previous members of thehumanlineagehad mystacial vibrissae.
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A set of 348 transcription factor genes code for proteins with an average of about 50 percent more amino acid changes in thehumanlineagethan in the chimp lineage.
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Chimpanzee and human lineages are thought to have split around this time, somewhere between 5 million and 7 million years ago.
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