Sentences with word «apelike»

There visitors can trace some six million years of human prehistory, from apelike creatures such as Sahelanthropus to anatomically modern Homo sapiens, from the first tool makers to the first artists.
The last big find was made by Berger in 2008: at nearby Malapa, he discovered two partial skeletons of a previously unknown species with a strange mix of apelike and human features — the 2 - million - year - old Australopithecus sediba.
The pelvis from a partial Ardipithecus ramidus skeleton nicknamed Ardi (SN: 1/16/10, p. 22) bears evidence of an efficient, humanlike walk combined with plenty of hip power for apelike climbing, says a team led by biological...
Yet H. habilis» brain was only moderately larger than Australopithecus», and its body retained many apelike features.
«But these results suggest the transition from apelike to humanlike ways of thinking and behaving arose surprisingly early.»
The pelvis from a partial Ardipithecus ramidus skeleton nicknamed Ardi (SN: 1/16/10, p. 22) bears evidence of an efficient, humanlike walk combined with plenty of hip power for apelike climbing, says a team led by biological anthropologists Elaine Kozma and Herman Pontzer of City University of New York.
These features distinguish the early species on the Homo lineage from the more apelike early Australopithecus, yet the fossil's primitive, sloping chin links it to a Lucy - like ancestor.
The results, reported May 8 in the journal Nature Human Behavior, place the appearance of human - like cognition at the emergence of Homo erectus, an early apelike species of human first found in Africa whose evolution predates Neanderthals by nearly 600,000 years.
Any reasonable reconstruction of nasal cartilages results in a flat, apelike nose.
Some of our ancestors are clearly inferior to us, with smaller brains and apelike countenances.
A. sediba had long, apelike arms; a braincase one - third the size of a modern human's; and a modern - looking pelvis that suggests it was a better upright walker than previous australopithecines.
Over the past 2 million years, the human lineage evolved from a group of bipedal, apelike beings to makers of stone tools, controllers of fire and producers of cave art.
The 4.4 - million - year - old hominin known as Ardi (Ardipithecus ramidus) had pelvic bones oriented in such a way that its hip flexors could extend almost as much those of modern humans, despite having a long, apelike ischium.
«We wouldn't necessarily say that [the tracks] looked apelike,» he says.
Footprints found in Laetoli, Tanzania, show that the australopithecines that made them 3.75 million years ago had longer toes, a shallower arch, and a more apelike big toe that jutted slightly away from the other toes.
Other remains — skulls, hands, and foot bones from infants, teens, and the elderly — also consistently showed the same unusual combination of modern and apelike traits.
So the scientists filmed a colleague dressed as a generic apelike figure, nicknamed King Kong, who steals a rock from a man, hides the rock in one of two boxes, and then scares the man away.
Its large braincase and apelike jaw and teeth were exactly what these scientists expected to find from a «missing link.»
Both researchers collaborate with Meldrum even though they do not accept his hypothesis that a large apelike creature exists.
Stranger still are their features: apelike brows, humanlike teeth, and most amazing of all, a brain roughly half the size of our own.
Part of me will never accept phallic pillars and apelike crouches as a measure of feeling.
Cerebral Caverns assembles a cabinet of wonders or of antique, racist science, filled with identical apelike or Neanderthal heads.
This early hominid combined humanlike, nearly straight - legged walking with powerful, apelike climbing abilities, a new study finds.
LITTLE BIG APE A reconstruction of a fossil primate's 11.6 - million - year - old skull, shown from the side and the front, reveals a mix of apelike and monkeylike features.
Lucy's fingers and toes also were more curved than those of living humans and her shoulder was more apelike — traits useful for tree - climbing.
Our apelike ancestor millions of years ago shared an ancestor that was a reptile millions of years before him.
It is quite incredible that the structure of existence described by Heidegger in Being and Time appeared suddenly in the world, directly superseding an apelike existence.
There are both apelike and familiarly humanlike aspects of her anatomy, but her body is not identical to either.
When fleshed out, her arms have a somewhat human look, but with proportionally longer forearms and some apelike nuances in the arrangement of muscles.
At the same time, his small hands were decidedly monkeylike rather than apelike, with straight fingers.
Furthermore, he adds, none of them share LB1's suite of primitive skeletal characteristics, such as her apelike wrist bones and her flaring pelvis, which bears an uncanny resemblance to the pelvis of the 3.2 - million - year - old fossil from Ethiopia known as Lucy.
Translation: Ardi climbed trees with her apelike hands and powerfully built, grasping big toe yet also walked on the ground in her woodland habitat.
Greiner concludes that our apelike ancestors began walking upright for some unknown reason before their ilium and gluteus began to change.
«The best way to explain the transition from an apelike posture to one more humanlike,» he says, «is that a humanlike posture was adopted first and resulted in a humanlike morphology.»
«All [the scientists] agree that the family's walk, described as a «bear crawl,» may offer invaluable information on how our apelike ancestors moved,» wrote The Times of London.
From their first excavation, they claimed to have discovered several pieces of a humanlike skull, an apelike mandible, some worn molar teeth, stone tools, and fossilized animals.
Ardi's long lower pelvis and apelike, opposable big toe were replaced in Lucy's kind by a short lower pelvis connected to smaller hamstring muscles, a humanlike big toe and a fully developed arch (SN: 3/12/11, p. 8).
A. afarensis and A. africanus displayed pelvic arrangements for upright walking, but not for Ardi's apelike climbing power.
Unlike Lucy, Ardi's upper pelvis was oriented behind her relatively long lower pelvis, enabling both a straight - legged gait and powerful, apelike climbing, a new study suggests.
This idea helps explain how we started out as a small, apelike, herbivorous species 6 million years ago in tropical Africa, and after a history of origin and extinction of species, what's left today is us: a single species all over the planet with an astonishing array of abilities to adjust.
The apelike australopithecines (Lucy and her ilk) never ventured out of Africa.
But she was found without her foot bones, so researchers have debated whether she walked as we do or retained some apelike adaptations for climbing in trees that altered her gait.
For now, there is no way to know whether Graecopithecus jaws and teeth belonged to an ape with some hominid - like features or a hominid with some apelike features, says paleoanthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. «My guess is the former.»
And although its anatomical details have yet to be published in detail, Clarke says Little Foot appears to be somewhat closer to later humans than Lucy: While its skull is primitive like Lucy's, its hands are more modern, and its feet have both apelike and human features.
Look at its pelvis or shoulders, says Berger, and you would think it was an apelike Australopithecus, which appeared in Africa about 4 million years ago and is thought to be an ancestor of Homo.
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