Sentences with phrase «african hominids»

The Strategy of Paleoanthropology: Early African Hominids.

So he wonders whether the South African hominids may have belonged to H. erectus.

Two South African hominids from between roughly 1 million and 3 million years ago, Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus, show lower rates of tooth chipping than H. naledi, at about 21 percent and 13 percent, respectively, the investigators find.

At the time, Falk argued that four endocasts from southern African hominids — three Australopithecus africanus and one Australopithecus sediba — showed folding patterns that suggested that brain reorganization was underway as early as 3 million years ago in a frontal area involved in human speech production.

Groove patterns on the surface of modern chimpanzee brains throw a monkey wrench into proposals that some ancient southern African hominids evolved humanlike brain characteristics, a new study suggests.

Only the animal's face, jaw and teeth survive, and their shape places it within the African hominid lineage that gave rise to gorillas, chimps and humans.

While only the animal's face, jaw and teeth survive, their shape places it within the African hominid lineage that gave rise to gorillas, chimps and humans.

A team led by Haile - Selassie discovered remains of a 5.8 - million - to 5.6 - million - year - old East African hominid, Ardipithecus kadabba (SN: 3/6/04, p. 148).

The new fossils resemble in part an equally ancient East African hominid, says Fred Spoor.

Not exact matches

Indeed, language may be THE most important ingredient in why and how we changed from just another band of hominids on the African grasslands to a truly global species that has dominated the environment, for good and ill, like no other species in history.

In addition, Smith's analysis looked at the size distribution of African mammals prior to the hominid migration into Eurasia.

The South African fossil hunter famed for his discoveries of early hominids was going on a few photographs.

Hominid butchers and biting crocodiles in the African Plio - Pliocene.

Our anatomy suggests that running down prey was once a way of life that ensured hominid survival millions of years ago on the African savanna.

Because of their fragility and size, bird bones have been rare or absent at most other eastern African fossil assemblages that included early hominids.

Unlike the East African discoveries, all the southern gracile australopithecines were found in caves, but these hominids were probably not cave - dwellers.

A. africanus is closely related to Lucy and her kin (Australopithecus afarensis), the gracile hominids found in the East African Rift Valley at Hadar, at Laetoli in Tanzania and elsewhere.

First, it was found in Chad, 1,500 miles from the East African Rift Valley, long the presumed center of hominid evolution.

Which leads to the biggest puzzle for Lordkipanidze: Anthropologists have always assumed small - brained hominids lacked enough intelligence to create the tools they'd need to fan out from their African homeland and survive in new habitats.

The recent discovery of a fascinating new hominid species in the central African country of Chad rocks the foundation of the human family tree as we know it.

A newly found, small - brained human relative might have shared the African landscape with modern humans and probably other hominids between 226,000 and 335,000 years ago.

However, Stewart and Disotell [93] and Begun [94] suggested that crown hominids originated in Asia and that the ancestor of African apes and humans (Homininae) re-entered Africa in the late Miocene.

People of African heritage also retain DNA from as - of - yet unidentified early hominids.

An array of hominid fossils from a South African cave shows many body parts of the newly identified species Homo naledi.

Hominids in arid environments, see Kaye E. Reed, «Early hominid evolution and ecological change through the African Plio - Pleistocene,» Journal of Human Evolution 32:289 - 322 (1997).