Sentences with phrase «homo species»

Features shared with other Homo species include complex functional locomotion, manipulation and mastication systems.

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.

The Paleolithic period covers 200,000 years and multiple homo species spreading across the globe.

The presence and variability of browridges in archaic Homo species and their absence in ourselves have led to debate concerning their morphogenesis and function, with two main hypotheses being put forward: that browridge morphology is the result of the spatial relationship between the orbits and the brain case; and that browridge morphology is significantly impacted by biting mechanics.

Another view of the Denisova cave, for which the Denisovans are named, as the Homo species was first described based on molecular data from Denisova Cave.

This fossil is a nearly complete cranium of an early Homo species that is about 1.9 million years old.

Finds in China and other parts of Asia have made it clear that a dazzling variety of Homo species once roamed the continent.

One more Homo species?

A date younger than 2 million years would support the idea that many Homo species once coexisted in Africa.

«That allowed them to have more time for learning, as compared to other earlier Homo species,» Rosas said.

It revealed that Homo heidelbergensis, aka Heidelberg Man, lived during the Middle Pleistocene and shared a common ancestor with Denisovans, a group that migrated out of Africa early and later wound up in Siberia with a few other Homo species.

Roksandic, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Winnipeg, and her team have not, however, ruled out that the individual belonged to a new Homo species.

Caley Orr, an assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy at Midwestern University, and Eric Delson, a paleoanthropologist at Lehman College / CUNY and the American Museum of Natural History, both think that the new theory erasing the other Homo species is intriguing, but believe that more specimens and additional research are needed to fully validate it.

But if the fossils are more recent, they theorize, it raises the possibility that a small - brained Homo lived in southern Africa at the same time as larger brained Homo species were evolving.

This new fossil confirms the presence of at least two postcranial morphotypes within early Homo, and documents diversity in postcranial morphology among early Homo species that may reflect underlying body form and / or adaptive differences.

afarensis) were comparable with later Homo species, including H. erectus s. l. and H. sapiens.

The skull displays a modern - looking face, left, combined with a braincase, right, shaped like those of older, now - extinct Homo species.

Hublin's team compared measurements of these finds with those for Homo erectus, Neandertals and other Homo species from between around 1.8 million and 150,000 years ago, as well as H. sapiens fossils from the past 130,000 years.

Its return highlighted debate over whether this hominid was a distinct Homo species that purposefully disposed of at least some of its dead.

«My intuition is that Homo naledi points to a diversity of African Homo species that once lived south of the equator» in Africa, Hawks says.

That would be unusual: Scientists have long held that the brain only became larger as Homo species evolved.

These features include relatively small, orange - sized brains and curved fingers like those of Homo species that lived around 2 million years ago, as well as wrists, hands, legs, feet and body sizes comparable to those of Neandertals and humans.

As interactions within groups became more complex in ancient Homo species, neural capacities for experiencing social emotions and communicating verbally blossomed, Hurst suspects.

Hobbits either evolved smaller brains or retained small brains after splitting from a much older Homo species in Africa.

Unlike H. naledi, hobbits lived on an island where a lack of competition with other Homo species may have assisted their survival.

This language - related neural region enhanced social emotions and communication in the still - undated southern African Homo species, researchers contend.

It's unclear how H. naledi survived in Africa alongside larger - brained Homo species, perhaps even H. sapiens.

These hominids, whose remains date to between about 100,000 and 60,000 years ago (SN: 4/30/16, p. 7), had chimp - sized brains, short statures and, like H. naledi, some skull features resembling early Homo species.

An «astonishingly young» age for a Homo species with several ancient - looking features suggests H. naledi was the sole survivor of an array of much older, closely related species, proposes Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.

Or a Homo species closely related to H. sapiens — but not known from any previous fossils — may have traveled to Misliya Cave, he speculates.

That number increased to about 1 in 5 when early Homo species appeared a million years ago and increased again to nearly 4 in 10 by the age of the Neanderthals, some 130,000 to 30,000 years ago.

Interbreeding between H. sapiens, Neandertals and perhaps other Homo species in the Middle East could have produced a hybrid Misliya population characterized by humanlike jaws connected to bulkier, Neandertal - style bodies (SN: 10/15/16, p. 22), Hawks says.

Signature H. sapiens traits include flat surfaces of frontal teeth facing the lips, high and narrow crowns on certain cheek teeth and generally smaller tooth sizes than found in Neandertals and earlier Homo species.

Five skulls from the same time period, including the first complete adult skull of the early Pleistocene (far right), suggest that early hominids may have been a single Homo species.

As these early Homo species evolved, mothers birthed bigger, more dependent babies that they couldn't raise alone.

Researchers now contend that early Homo species probably collectively raised their offspring within female care networks.

Layers of sediments in the immediate area already had been dated, allowing researchers to estimate the impressions were between 800,000 and 1 million years old — the oldest footprints of a Homo species outside of Africa.

An unidentified Homo species used stone tools to crack apart mastodon bones, teeth and tusks approximately 130,700 years ago at a site near what's now San Diego.

HERE FIRST An unidentified Homo species pounded apart mastodon bones with large stones in southern California around 130,700 years ago, a controversial study concludes.

Despite uncertainties about who busted mastodon remains on the Pacific coast so long ago, Holen's team shows that the damage was most likely done by members of a Homo species, she says.

Occasional interbreeding of H. naledi with larger - brained Homo species, perhaps including H. sapiens, may have assisted the smaller - brained species» survival, the researchers speculated.

That estimate came as a surprise: H. naledi's orange - sized brain and curved fingers resemble those of Homo species from around 2 million years ago.

The earliest example of a clear association between humans and tools dated to 2.3 million years ago, and the human remains belonged to an early Homo species.

It is not surprising, then, that the new analysis misses the more subtle shape differences between Homo species.

This may have been an adaptation to new environments and endurance hunting, as early Homo species left the forests and moved on to more arid African savannahs,» says lead author Dr Manuel Will from Cambridge's Department of Archaeology, and a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College.

CT scans, used to produce these reconstructions, reveal a modern - looking face (left) but a braincase similar to older, now extinct Homo species (right).

Something new happened with the rise of the homo species, but this was within a grand and aeons - old scheme of the rise of life, in which the Creator has always been immanent as well as transcendent.

Not exact matches

And by the time a species called Homo heidelbergensis had appeared, perhaps around 600,000 years ago, there was a clear right - handed preference in prehistoric societies.

It was only 400,000 years ago that several species of man began to hunt large game on a regular basis, and only in the last 100,000 years with the rise of Homo sapiens that man jumped to the top of the food chain.

Wouldn't it be a miracle if one day, perhaps in my lifetime, humans turned their back on the past and became the one incarnation of the species Homo sapiens to accept that there is no god and pour their intelligence and resources into the discovery of reality?