Sentences with phrase «ancient hominids»

The new discovery suggests two or more species of ancient hominids coexisted in East Africa, Haile - Selassie says.

These ancient DNA researchers are analyzing preserved DNA from ancient hominids, plants, and animals to learn about their evolutionary histories, offering a level of detail that inferences based on modern DNA simply can not match.

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.

To establish the fossil's identity, the researchers compared a 3 - D image of the ancient finger bone with corresponding bones of present - day people, apes and monkeys, as well as Neandertals and other ancient hominids.

Some of these brains showed surface creases similar to ones that were thought to have signaled a turn toward humanlike brain organization in ancient hominids hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago.

MRI scans of eight chimp brains (one at right) provide new detailed looks at surface folds used to interpret brain impressions on ancient hominid skulls.

I became fascinated with human variation; ancient hominid fossils; and the behavior of our closest living relatives, the great apes, and ended up earning a degree in anthropology.

Begun was looking for ancient hominid bones when he spotted the teeth trapped beneath a rhino's shoulder blade.

While excavating small pits in 2015 to evaluate the impact of a proposed field museum at Laetoli, researchers uncovered comparably ancient hominid footprints about 150 meters from the original discoveries.

DNA collected from a fossilised finger bone from Siberia shows it belonged to a mysterious ancient hominid — perhaps a new species.

This surreal ethnography links ancient hominids of the lesbeing dykeaspora to contemporary lesbian artists via DNA analysis of Conroy's petrie dish Lesbian Culture portrait series.

THE HYBRID FACTOR To understand signs of interbreeding among humans, Neandertals and other ancient hominids, scientists are studying physical changes in the bodies of various animal hybrids.

Those same scanners also make it possible for paleoanthropologists to look inside the fossils of ancient hominids and see things that until now have been shrouded in mystery.

Some researchers are even producing full - length virtual skeletons to which they can attach virtual muscles and make the ancient hominids walk again.

They studied genetic data from 1,983 living individuals across Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas and concluded that Neanderthals or another ancient hominid group must have interbred with our ancestors at least once, in the eastern Mediterranean, soon after humans migrated out of Africa.

Last week, scientists announced the discovery of a remarkably well - preserved skeleton of what might be a new species of an ancient hominid that lived almost 2 million years ago.

Incisions and pits on arm bones from an ancient hominid, Australopithecus anamensis, and similar marks on a horse's leg bone likely resulted from crocodile bites and not stone - tool use, as initially suspected, the investigators say.

The mtDNA matches that of some modern Europeans but differs from that of Neandertals, shedding light on the fate of these ancient hominids.

Now Pääbo's team is applying these techniques to Atapuerca's ancient hominids to pinpoint changes in the human genome and determine when they occurred.

Lovejoy, who led an initial investigation of Ardi's lower - body bones, has long contended that ancient hominids had a humanlike gait (SN: 7/17/10, p. 5).

For Lucy and her ancient hominid comrades, raw meat sliced off animal carcasses was what's for dinner.

Anthropologists concluded that they had stumbled upon the remains of some ancient hominid kitchen and that the Taung child had perhaps fallen prey to one of its own kind, a carnivorous beast, a shell - cracking and bone - breaking ape.

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

On July 17, 1959, British paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovered a skull from an ancient hominid species, Paranthropus boisei, or «southern ape.»