Sentences with phrase «sapiens teeth»

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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.

Although the Misliya fossil — which includes a partial upper jaw, intact teeth, part of the cheekbone, the roof of the mouth and the bottom of the nasal opening — displays a few features in common with Neandertals and other ancient Homo groups, several dental traits appear only in H. sapiens, Quam says.

Teeth found in a Chinese cave back up the idea that Homo sapiens reached China thousands of years before it was assumed they left Africa

«It's exciting to find Homo sapiens outside of Africa this early,» says paleoanthropologist Shara Bailey of New York University, an expert on early human teeth, who was not involved in the new Misliya cave study.

Big brow ridges and teeth suggest that ancient Homo heidelbergensis (above) may have had more testosterone than modern Homo sapiens (left).

Koo, of U. Penn's School of Dental Medicine, has spent 15 years studying how microbes construct the biofilms, also known as plaque, that have plagued teeth since H. sapiens invented agriculture, bringing large quantities of starch into the diet.

Their small size, thin roots and flat crowns are typical for anatomically modern humans — H. sapiens — and the overall shape of the teeth is barely distinguishable from those of both ancient and present - day humans.

The teeth, which «unequivocally» belong to Homo sapiens, are more than 80,000 years old, suggesting that our species arrived in Asia much earlier than previously believed.

In addition, the sequence of tooth development has little resemblance to that of Homo sapiens (Wood 1991).

The partial human skull from Longlin Cave and the human calotte, partial mandibles and teeth from Maludong both present a range of individual features and a composite of characters not seen among Pleistocene or recent populations of H. sapiens.

But it also resembles H. sapiens, with its smaller teeth and bigger braincase.

While baring your teeth might be friendly among Homo sapiens, it can be a deadly threat among a host of other animals, from chimpanzees to wolves.

In 2010, Israeli archeologists announced the discovery of eight teeth in Qesem, a prehistoric site just a few kilometers... humans alive today descended from a single group of sapiens that began moving out of Africa some 60,000 to...