Sentences with phrase «early hominid evolution»

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).

The review paper covers earliest hominid evolution, from about 6 to 1.6 million years ago.

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BRAINY CHIMPS Some modern chimps have brain surface features that were thought to have signaled humanlike brain evolution in hominids from as early as 3 million years ago, scans suggest.

Rather, they were a much more primitive hominid population, possibly Homo habilis, whose members lived in, or at least transited, Dmanisi much earlier than what our accepted chronology of human evolution indicates.

The basin has been home to important discoveries in human evolution, including many hominid fossils and the earliest known stone tools (SN: 6/13/15, p. 6).

He hinted that gestural theory could clear up another mystery about this period as well: why the stone tools of these early hominids show little evolution for almost two million years, despite increases in brain size.

j. Fred Spoor et al., «Implications of Early Hominid Labyrinthine Morphology for Evolution of Human Bipedal Locomotion,» Nature, Vol.

Early hominid reliance on carcasses as a source of meat, and the competition with fellow scavengers that went with it, are thought to have contributed to the evolution of human tool use, cooperative food acquisition, and even language development — the very things that define us as a species!

162 Climate pumping along Silk Road route to China: Adam Chou, «Migration of early hominids during the Pleistocene,» Journal of Human Evolution 40 (3): A5 (March 2001).