Sentences with phrase «homo ergaster»

Early members of our own genus, Homo erectus, and its near relative, Homo ergaster, arose in the same region about 2.5 million years ago.

By 1.8 million years ago, a species called Homo ergaster was about as tall as living humans, with long legs and stiff feet that were only good for walking on the ground.

Judging from his anatomy, scientists believe this Homo ergaster was a tall youth about 13 to 15 years old.

We learn in the February 27 issue of Science that a team working at Illeret, near Lake Turkana in Kenya, or many years the site of fossil finds, has uncovered two trails with footprints estimated to be 1.5 million years old and likely made by individuals assigned to Homo ergaster / erectus.

The size of the Ileret footprints is consistent with stature and body mass estimates for Homo ergaster / erectus, and these prints are also morphologically distinct from the 3.75 - million - year - old footprints at Laetoli, Tanzania.

(On opening day, a 4 - year - old boy stared at a pair of 1.8 - million - year - old Homo ergaster, protecting their half - butchered antelope from a vulture's attack, and blurted: «They're naked!

Homo ergaster («working man») is an extinct hominid species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which lived throughout eastern and southern Africa between 1.9 to 1.4 million years ago with the advent of the lower Pleistocene and the cooling of the global climate.

From top to bottom: Australopithecus afarensis (4 - 3 million years; ~ 40 kg, 130 cm); Homo ergaster (1.9 - 1.4 million years; 55 - 60 kg; ~ 165 cm); Neanderthal (200.000 - 30.000 years; ~ 70 kg; ~ 163 cm).

Not exact matches

Dmanisi team members, among others, contend that the Georgian fossils belong to a single early population of H. erectus or to a single sub-subspecies, Homo erectus ergaster georgicus.

Authors David Lordkipanidze, Marcia S. Ponce de León, Ann Margvelashvili, Yoel Rak, G. Philip Rightmire, Abesalom Vekua and Christoph P. E. Zollikofer say significant anatomical features of this skull can be found in earlier fossils assigned to the genus Homo, such as H. habilis, H ergaster and H. rudolfensis, and argue all comprise a single species within the genus Homo, with less variation among them than can be found within contemporary Homo sapiens.

98 The fauna associated with Australopithecine fossils indicate a wooded environment (Reed 1997, p. 318); their Paranthropus successors were sometimes found in wetland environments, but it is only the later Homo species (ergaster, erectus) that are found in extremely arid and open landscape.