Sentences with phrase «archaic hominins»
The researchers discounted two theories commonly put forward to explain protruding brow ridges: that they were needed to fill the space where the flat brain cases and eye sockets of archaic hominins met, and that the ridge acted to stabilise their skulls from the force of chewing.
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Clip 2: Stringer and Tishkoff on the value of genomic analyses of additional archaic hominin species.
Wu counters that the genetic contribution from archaic hominins in China could have been missed because no DNA has yet been recovered from them.
«I think the most interesting observation is that some ancestral light skin alleles are shared between the San and archaic hominins such as Neanderthals and Denisovans,» says Carles Lalueza - Fox at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, Spain.
The early JQ - 1 artefacts also correspond with the upper age range limits of the Acheulo - Yabrudian and the Zuttiyeh fossil, potentially indicating the presence of archaic hominins [44] in Arabia, and possibly early representatives of the Neanderthals [45].
New research published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution contributes to a long - running debate about why archaic hominins had gigantic brow...
«This scenario reconciles the discrepancy in the nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA phylogenies of archaic hominins and the inconsistency of the modern human - Neanderthal population split time estimated from nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA,» says researcher Johannes Krause, also of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
«This scenario reconciles the discrepancy in the nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA phylogenies of archaic hominins and the inconsistency of the modern human - Neanderthal population split time estimated from nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA,» explains Johannes Krause, also of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, senior author of the study.
The growth of these lumps is triggered by hormonal factors and the bones underlying them are pitted with microscopic craters — a feature that can also be seen in the brow bones of archaic hominins.»
It belonged to a species of archaic hominin — Homo heidelbergensis, who lived between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago.
It belonged to a species of archaic hominin - Homo heidelbergensis, who lived between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago.