Sentences with phrase «ancient human ancestors»

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Instead of the robust features he was accustomed to seeing on the faces of an ancient human ancestor like Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis, this face bore a striking resemblance to his own.

Their braincase (shown below in blue) also seemed to fall somewhere between what one might expect in an ancient human ancestor and a modern human, albeit slightly more similar to those of our archaic ancestors.

You'd be amazed how little evidence supports many of our ancient human ancestors.

Fossilized jaws and teeth found in northern Ethiopia belong to an ancient human ancestor that researchers say lived around the same time as Lucy's kind, Australopithecus afarensis, but is a distinct species.

The theory: Millions of years ago, an ancient human ancestor contracted a retrovirus that inserted its DNA into the host's reproductive germ cells, passing the viral DNA down the ancestral line.

Now, scientists have confirmed that they have discovered etchings carved more than 500,000 years ago by our ancient human ancestor, Homo erectus.

Scientists have identified the hominin species responsible for passing genital herpes to our ancient human ancestors.

Out of Eden Learn involves a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Paul Salopek who is walking around the world along the migratory pathways of our ancient human ancestors.