Sentences with phrase «pithecanthropus erectus»

Instead of the robust features he was accustomed to seeing on the faces of an ancient human ancestor like Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis, this face bore a striking resemblance to his own.

Ho.mo sapiens evolved from ho.mo erectus about 250,000 years ago.

The postmodern aesthete, that homo erectus appetitus, this featherless biped possessed of desires and wants, who makes contracts of convenience and who is vacant of love but vibrant with lust — this is very much the man of the hour.

That we could interbreed with a truly distinct group again suggests a common ancestor for H. neanderthalis and H. sapien, particularly in the context of the temporal and geographical relationships these two groups have with H. erectus and H. heidelbergensis.

There are many transitional fossils: reptiles to birds (like Sinosauropteryx, Caudipteryx, Protarchaeopteryx), mammal to whale fossils (whale fossils have been found with legs, like Rodhocetus and Basilosaurus), and yes, even ape - to - human fossils (like Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus).

It may well happen that Spurs finish the season above us as our team move into the next era of supremacy, but they will never be top dogs in London, they are third as they have been since homo erectus first crawled out of the swamplands of N17.

A new, slightly morbid study based on the calorie counts of average humans suggests that human - eating was mostly ritualistic, not dietary, in nature among hominins including Homo erectus, H. antecessor, Neandertals, and early modern humans.

«It could even be an early, regional representative of Homo erectus,» says Jungers.

We can guess that this coat was lost by the time of Homo erectus, as its skeleton's proportions show that it was adapting to heat stress like modern humans do, and part of our adaptation involves an enhanced sweat gland cooling system which would not function well with a full coat of body hair.

Stature then separated from heft with a height increase alone of 10 cm between 1.4 - 1.6 m years ago, shortly after the emergence of Homo erectus.

Given the recent discovery in Flores of a dwarf hominid species related to Homo erectus, it is possible that H. erectus made it to more places than we have evidence for.

Fossil mussel shells excavated more than a century ago at an H. erectus site on the Indonesian island of Java include a shell with engravings of an M shape, two parallel lines and a reversed N shape, the scientists report December 3 in Nature.

A member of the now - extinct hominid species Homo erectus engraved a geometric design on a sea shell nearly half a million years ago, long before the earliest evidence of comparable etchings made by modern humans, researchers say.

«It was originally thought that the skull belonged to Homo erectus until the deposits were more reliably radiocarbon dated to about 5,000 to 6,000 years.

H. erectus was primarily a tropical or subtropical species, and there is no evidence suggesting that it ever managed to live in the Arctic.

If that was the case, hominins may not have slept on the ground until Homo erectus appeared 1.9 million years ago.

The shell was dug up in Trinil, Indonesia, in the 1890s by Dutch geologist Eugene Dubois, and was one of many fossil finds in the area, including bones of Homo erectus and several animals.

So much so, in fact, that its discoverers argue that the ancient human family tree should be pruned of many of its species, which may simply be different forms of H. erectus.

«I think they will be proved right that some of those early African fossils can reasonably join a variable H. erectus species,» says Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, UK.

The team says they all belong to one species, meaning hominins like H. habilis and H. rudolfensis simply belong to H. erectus.

Our brains are roughly 25 percent larger than those of the late Homo erectus.

Homo erectus is one ancestor, most agree.

The new skull tells us that H. erectus evolved in a mosaic fashion, with some aspects of the skull changing before others, says Spoor.

The shape of the brain case was the first to change: the new skull has a braincase shaped like a typical H. erectus despite its small size.

Lordkipanidze and his colleagues say that the new skull supports the idea that the many species of hominin thought to have coexisted during this period are, in fact, a single species, H. erectus, which is simply more variable in appearance than previously thought.

Even the emigrant Homo erectus and its hand - axe technology are ubiquitous in Africa, with evidence of the species» occupation from the Cape to near Cairo.

He points out that Lordkipanidze's analysis suggests even the much more ape - like hominins in the genus Australopithecus belong to the H. erectus group.

He says there are at least 30 complete braincases known from H. erectus.

Their best guess was that H. floresiensis was a descendant of H. erectus — the first species known to have colonized outside of Africa.

The skull, found underneath the medieval village of Dmanisi, belonged to a human ancestor called Homo erectus, but its gender and cause of death are still unknown.

The etch also suggests H. erectus was integrating different domains of knowledge — thought to be a key stage in the evolution of our creative minds.

While the team's more radical claims are in doubt, the new skull does help confirm the importance and success of H. erectus.

Just as we see the ancient Homo erectus as a savage primitive, Boskop may have viewed us in somewhat the same way.

This suggests that the species that predated H. erectus were a diverse bunch..

H. erectus never made it to Australia or the Americas, but other than that they colonised most of Earth's land mass.

Yet today, although Neanderthals and Homo erectus are widely known, Boskops are almost entirely forgotten.

Spoor agrees that the specimens from Dmanisi are all H. erectus and that the species was variable, but he does not believe that all the African fossils belong to H. erectus.

A shell etched by Homo erectus is by far the oldest engraving ever found, challenging what we know about the origin of art and complex human thought

An entire skull belonging to an extinct hominin that lived 1.8 million years ago has been found in Georgia — the earliest completely preserved specimen ever found and confirmation that the species it belonged to, Homo erectus was far more variable in appearance than originally thought.

Because they all lived in the same place at roughly the same time, this shows the extent of variation among H. erectus populations.

One million years ago, this valley was populated by hand - axe - making Homo erectus, which evolved into H. rhodesiensis and then into the nearly anatomically modern H. sapiens idaltu.

However, the history of the more modern Homo erectus, big - brained and fully upright, has been told mainly through skull fossils, says Sileshi Semaw, a palaeoanthroplogist at the Stone Age Institute in Gosport, Indiana, who led the team.

Homo erectus — an early ancestor of modern humans — resembled a squat body builder more than a svelte distance runner, a newly unearthed fossil pelvis suggests.

«I would really like to think a little more about whether this thing is Homo erectus or what our definition of Homo erectus is,» he says.

The Busidima pelvis might also shatter another belief: H. erectus «s supposed prowess as a distance runner.

Later, in the 1950s, these fossils were included in the species Homo erectus.

The fossil's membership in Homo erectus is even up to question, Ruff says.

According to the authors of this paper entitled «The fossil teeth of the Peking Man,» there are similarities between the teeth of Zhoukoudian and those of other Chinese archaeological sites from a similar period, but they also highlight the differences from other teeth ascribed either to Homo erectus or other species of hominins from Africa and Europe.

As Martinón - Torres explains, for a long time the idea was held that this species was a direct ancestor of modern humanity, and «all the human fossils found in what we call the Far East and in the current islands of Indonesia have been attributed systematically to Homo erectus.

When paleoanthropologist Lee Berger unearthed a fossil near Johannesburg, South Africa, it seemed to be a jumble of parts: a braincase similar in size to that of an Australopithecus africanus, a Homo erectus pelvis, and the arms of a Miocene ape.