Sentences with phrase «ancient hominins in»

Harnessing fire for light, warmth, and cooking was a key event in hominin prehistory — but the smoke could have been disastrous for Neandertals and other ancient hominins in terms of survival and reproduction, New Scientist reports.

Not exact matches

We know roughly when that change occurred from experiments in which researchers made their own versions of ancient stone tools using either their left or right hands to chip — or knap — the tool into shape, before comparing them with the tools made by early hominins.

In 2008, he discovered the most complete skeleton yet published of an ancient African hominin, 2 - million - year - old Australopithecus sediba.

In the new study, Pontzer and Kozma also calculated the range of hip and leg extensions of three species of ancient hominins.

The collection includes stone tools and other artifacts, as well as fossilized bones of animals and ancient hominins, including the Neandertal bones that formed part of the sample used in three recent studies of Neandertal DNA.

An international team of scientists, including one from the University of Colorado Denver and another from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, announced the discovery Thursday of a new species of hominin, a small creature with a tiny brain that opens the door to a new way of thinking about our ancient ancestors.

Each summer, archaeologist Sarah Hlubik treks rutted dirt tracks to a dry riverbed in Kenya, following, approximately, in the footsteps of ancient hominins who camped there about 1.6 million years ago.

In their report, Berger and his team describe 1550 fossils representing more than 15 ancient members of a strange new kind of hominin, which they named Homo naledi.

An ancient hominin male and several children were foraging along an estuary in Norfolk almost a million years ago

These environmental records, in combination with ancient tools that have been excavated from archeological sites within Olorgesailie, help tell the tale of a hominin species that could very well be the ancestor of modern humans.

«This new work is important because for the first time it unambiguously demonstrates a third interbreeding [of modern with ancient hominins],» says David Reich of Harvard Medical School in Boston.

But what was an ancient - looking hominin like this doing in Indonesia?

«While the precise implications of the CI eruption for cultures and livelihoods are best understood in the context of archaeological data sets,» write Black and colleagues, the results of their study quantitatively describe the magnitude and distribution of the volcanic cooling and acid deposition that ancient hominin communities experienced coincident with the final decline of the Neanderthals.

Matthias Meyer analyzes ancient samples in a clean lab at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Meyer (left) and Juan Luis Arsuaga of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid discuss the unique characteristics of the hominin fossils found at Sima de los Huesos; Bones are ground into a fine powder before isolating and extracting the DNA in the sample.

«For me personally, I think Africa is still a strong contender for the split between chimpanzees, bonobos and whatever ends up with us, ancient hominins, but they are certainly putting forward a case in these two papers that is well worth archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, experts in the field, looking again at the record and thinking of if the African story does still stack up.»

Going further back in hominin evolution, ancient DNA work has helped to uncover human ancestors that were completely unknown to science.

By examining fossils of early hominins, researchers have found that humans and chimpanzees may have split from their last common ancestor earlier than previously thought, and this important event may have happened in the ancient savannahs of Europe, not Africa.

The fossils of the creature, named after the Rising Star cave system in which they were discovered — «naledi» means «star» in the local Sesotho language — paint the picture of an ancient hominin that possessed a mixture of human and ape - like traits.

While ancient fossils from hominins are not yet available for glycan analysis, this proof - of - concept study, published September 11, 2017 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may set the stage for unprecedented explorations of human origins and diet.

«If we can then relate that to ancient human species... What this paper shows is the sagittal crest might also play a role in how those hominins are developing social structures that can then be linked to biology beyond diet.»