Sentences with phrase «about hominids»

Ah, so we should all eat tiger nuts and fruits and invertebrates because of this one study, and about hominids who lived 2.4 million years ago.

In the autumn of 1913, two farmers were arguing about hominid skull fragments they had uncovered while digging a drainage ditch.

Presentations at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists on April 16 underscored key uncertainties about the hominid.

Still, one can get a good idea of the quality of the book from the following table which summarizes his conclusions about the hominid fossil record:

Not exact matches

Yes, at some point we all have to have a discussion with ourselves and pretend there's a higher force that gives two figs about a bunch of silly, poorly evolved hominids.

It is a fact about the nature of reality to which our ancestors gained access at some stage of hominid development.

The earliest known fossils of homo sapiens date from about 100,000 years ago, and paleontologists tell us that hominid species go back some 4.4 million years.

After a portion of cliff was washed away by the sea, the team found ancient hominid footprints within the hardened clay that had been buried beneath, dating back about 900,000 years based on the vegetation preserved in the clay's sediments.

Ardi, he says, was a 120 - centimetre - tall female who lived about a million years before Lucy — the famous hominid found in Ethiopia in 1974 — roamed the planet.

She weighed about 50 kilograms, had a brain that was small for a hominid and a varied diet of nuts, fruit and meat.

The first hominid expansion from Africa came about 2 million years ago, as revealed by stone tools and an outstanding collection of hominid fossils at the site of Dmanisi in Georgia.

In 2005 a virtual brain of the one known skull of Homo floresiensis — the three - foot - tall hominid discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores — provided evidence in the ongoing debate about whether the creature represents a separate species or was a human pygmy with a birth defect.

Stunning finds in the Republic of Georgia upend long - standing ideas about the first hominids to journey out of Africa

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

Part by part, Bramble and Lieberman have reinterpreted the hominid physique by juxtaposing bits of fossil evidence with what's known about the physiology and biomechanics of jogging.

A note reminds us that between 3.5 and 1.5 million years ago, at least 11 different hominid species lived in Africa — many of them (like our notorious strolling couple) members of the genus Australopithecus, which went extinct about 1.4 million years ago.

The smart birds seem to have evolved this flexible cognitive ability independently from hominids as the two lineages diverged about 320 million years ago

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

Two South African hominids from between roughly 1 million and 3 million years ago, Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus, show lower rates of tooth chipping than H. naledi, at about 21 percent and 13 percent, respectively, the investigators find.

Around 2 million years ago, only about one in 10 Australopithecines — the modest - brained hominids exemplified by the famous fossil Lucy — who made it to adulthood lived to twice the age of sexual maturity.

This contradicts the standard view, which envisages early hominids in Africa running about on dry, grassy plains in the heat of the midday sun.

Even among early hominids, the number of premolar roots varies enough to raise serious questions about whether Graecopithecus can be classified among them, says paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile - Selassie of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

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.

Scaling is also why nobody seems too surprised by the large brains of the Neanderthals, the burly hominids that died out about 30,000 years ago.

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

To learn more about the evolution of the «power squeeze» — the grip we use to hold a hammer — University of Kent anthropologist Matt Skinner compared hand and wrist bones from living and extinct hominids using 3 - D X-ray technology.

These heavy - jawed hominids, presumed to be human ancestors, arose in Africa about 4 million years ago and include the famous 3.5 - million - year - old skeleton named Lucy.

This find raises surprising questions about relationships among far - flung populations of ancient hominids.

Both hominids were about 1.2 metres tall and lightly built, with ape - sized brains and bodies resembling A. africanus, which is thought to have been a direct ancestor of humans.

«Having in about the same time window three different forms [of hominids], increases the potential of all types of interactions, including genetic.»

«Next we would like to access and evaluate genomic information about other hominid species, Neandertals in particular, as they represent probably our closest prehistoric relative,» Rubin comments.

Neandertal A hominid species (Homo neanderthalensis) that lived in Europe and parts of Asia from about 200,000 years ago to roughly 28,000 years ago.

Decades of fossil discoveries have revealed much about the extinct members of our hominid family tree, but we're far from having all the answers.

In fact, arguably, the emergence of sentient hominids may largely be a result of the stresses of climate fluctuations following the last interglacial which ended about 114,000 years ago.

Follow both the hominid and panin branch back about 5.4 million years, and you'll find a point where scientists think the two converged from a single, common ancestor.

The Neanderthals and Denisovans are hominid species that migrated out of Africa about 300,000 years ago and settled in Europe and some parts of Western Asia.

Neandertal (formerly spelled Neanderthal) This hominid species (Homo neanderthalensis) lived in Europe and parts of Asia from about 200,000 years ago to roughly 28,000 years ago.

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.

In addition to revealing more about these early hominids, the work could provide important insights into our own biology — whether we are related to Neanderthals, or not.

While questions related to the when and where of humanity's origins remain hotly debated, one matter about our collective genetic makeup is clearer: All humans appear to be hominid hybrids, made up of DNA from different and distinct populations.

Over the last couple of years, we've talked for a few minutes as we've crossed paths at various conferences about why robust hominids have really robust teeth and what they used them for.

In April, a group of researchers reported evidence of humans interbreeding with other hominids in the Middle East about 60,000 years ago, and in eastern Asia about 45,000 years ago.

According to a character in the book,» [B] asajauns are real creatures, hominids about two and a half meters tall, with broad shoulders, long hair on their heads, and thick hair all over their bodies... They live in the woods and are an intrinsic part of them, acting as protectors.

The whole visual design has something of the Castle Crashers and Alien Hominid about its styling too, with bright bold outlines and colours all making for a rather charming package.