Sentences with phrase «ancient ape ancestor»

Moeller is beginning to assemble a snapshot of the microbes in the guts of our ancient ape ancestor — in essence, a paleo gut that fit our paleo diet — and hopes to go even further back in time if, as seems likely, all mammals have evolved their unique microbiota from a common ancestral population in the distant past.

Not exact matches

This suggests that «knuckle walking» is an adaptation of non-human apes, not an ancient trait that our ancestors gave up.

The site previously yielded the remains of an ancient great ape called Rudapithecus, a possible ancestor of African great apes and humans.

According to the scientific theory of evolution, apes and people have a common ancestor — one ancient animal from which both species evolved.

Ancient human diets, like those of our fellow great apes, largely consisted of plants, so they likely produced more base than acid in the kidneys of our ancestors.