Popular nutrition Any of a number of weight-reduction diets that either eliminate one or more of the essential food groups, or recommend consumption of one type of food in excess at the expense of other foods; FDs rarely follow modern principles for losing weight. See Diet.
Early Modern Homo sapiens. All people today are classified as Homo sapiens. Our species of humans first began to evolve nearly 200,000 years ago in association with technologies not unlike those of the early Neandertals. It is now clear that early Homo sapiens, or modern humans, did not come after the Neandertals but were their contemporaries.
Over the past two years, breakthroughs in ancient genomics and archaeology have revolutionized the story of the first humans in Europe â who are thought to have appeared some 45,000 years ago â and their relationship with the Neanderthals, who vanished from the region some 5,000 years afterwards.