Sentences with phrase «as hominid»

It too was never named as a hominid, and its discoverer never claimed he could prove it walked upright - that detail was just invented by Parker.

Whatever they were, they are irrelevant - they were never accepted or even named as hominid species, and sank without a trace.

The fossil skull found, nicknamed Toumai is as old as any hominid fossil found to date, yet its features appear much more human - like than those of other contenders for title of human ancestor.

As hominid body size increased, it took on near - modern proportions of around 5 or 6 feet tall, and the legs grew longer relative to the arms, indicating more efficient walking and perhaps running.

Armed with only jaw and tooth fossils, the investigators don't have a slam - dunk case for pegging Graecopithecus as a hominid.

Still, factors other than climate fluctuations, such as hominid population declines or surges, may also have spurred ancient tool innovations to acquire more or different types of food, cautions archaeologist Yonatan Sahle of the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Show me the modern textbooks that present «Nebraska Man» as a hominid fossil, show me or admit once and for all that you creationists often simply lie to try to support your point of view... I'm serious.

Show me the modern textbooks that present «Nebraska Man» as a hominid fossil, show me or admit once and for all that you creationists often simply lie to try to support your point of view.

Not exact matches

Adam is portrayed as the father of all nations, like the ancestor of these three branches of hominids 400,000 years ago.

We can see by looking at other primates and studying their genetics and history, as well as those of previous species of hominids, that we have common traits.

Furthermore, as modern genetic sequencing has revealed for H. neanderthalensis, their unique and distinct genomes also indicate these extinct hominids were absolutely not modern H. sapiens.

It is a relatively minor matter whether God infused the transcendent capacity into a freshly made creature or an upwardly mobile hominid that had evolved through various transformations, from an amoeba to a tadpole to an assortment of amphibians and mammals until, as in the familiar diagrams and animations, it looks more or less like Carl Sagan.

And concepts of good and evil can easily be defined as human (or hominid) created concepts that are necessary for forming civilizations.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

Once one accepts the enrichment beyond the merely material of the context within which human life is lived, one is no longer restricted to the notion of Darwinian survival necessity as providing the sole engine driving hominid development.

Grilling has been around as long as mankind has had hunting and fire, and there's really no need to speculate which one of our hominid ancestors figured out that grilled meat tasted better than raw meat, but obviously someone did.

It is indifferent and always has been and will continue as the indomitable force that has created and destroyed more species than we can comprehend before the first reasoning hominids could ask «What am I?»

At the time, Falk argued that four endocasts from southern African hominids — three Australopithecus africanus and one Australopithecus sediba — showed folding patterns that suggested that brain reorganization was underway as early as 3 million years ago in a frontal area involved in human speech production.

BRAINY CHIMPS Some modern chimps have brain surface features that were thought to have signaled humanlike brain evolution in hominids from as early as 3 million years ago, scans suggest.

Organizers of the São Paulo march couldn't get a permit from officials to march, so the event was set up as something of a science fair, featuring several tents with the names of famous Brazilian scientists, each one with a display of scientific research — for example, insect collections and casts of hominid skulls from the University of São Paulo.

The hominids are depicted as degenerate and slouching because the first Neanderthal skeleton found happened to be arthritic.

The supposed ancient butchers in question were members of the same species as the famed fossil Lucy: Australopithecus afarensis, a hominid that lived in Ethiopia's Afar region between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago.

The first hominid expansion from Africa came about 2 million years ago, as revealed by stone tools and an outstanding collection of hominid fossils at the site of Dmanisi in Georgia.

In January they identified it as belonging to an unknown female hominid whom they nicknamed «X Woman.»

Perhaps hominids used these stones to break bones, but the new study doesn't rule out other possibilities, such as trampling by animals at locations where the bones may have originated, he says.

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.

Tappen believes the hominids, whose brains she describes as «the size of a bocce ball,» survived by adapting to a more meat - centric diet and by eating things like tree bark.

An opposing camp insists the fossils represent multiple species of as - yet - unnamed hominids.

In this inherited malady, the brain is typically just 400 cc — roughly the same size as that of the early hominid Australopithecus africanus, of which «Lucy» is the best - known specimen.

We now have hominid remains dating as far back as 5.7 million years and as recently as 80,000 years.

There seemed to be two periods of interbreeding between modern and ancient humans (such as Neanderthals, perhaps Denisovans, and other large - brained hominid cousins).

That in turn could help determine when humans interbred with archaic hominids on other continents — such as Neandertals in Europe and Denisovans in Asia — whose genes linger in the DNA of some modern people (SN: 6/13/15, p. 11).

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

But this should not deter you, for there are plenty more accessible contributions such as those by Coppens («Brain, locomotion, diet, and culture: how a primate, by chance, became a man»), Phillip Tobias on «The brain of the first hominid» and Rebecca Cann's chapter «Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution», which as a relative novice, I found very helpful.

Then the scientists noticed the ridge in a pitted, yellowed skull of our 2 - million - year - old relative Homo erectus — but not in older hominids known as australopithecines, who walked the earth as far back as 4.4 million years ago.

Seen from Earth — and our hominid ancestors would very likely have seen it — that stellar catastrophe would have been as bright as the full moon.

The find comes hot on the heels of the report of 6 - million - year - old bones found in Kenya's Tugen Hills, also hailed by their discoverers as belonging to the earliest known hominid (ScienceNOW, 22 February).

If either is indeed a hominid, that could overturn a long - held theory that bipedalism evolved when forest - dwelling apes moved out into open savannas, possibly as a result of climate change.

Better known as the hobbit, H. floresiensis was a diminutive hominid that lived roughly 500 kilometers south of Sulawesi on the island of Flores at around the same time the Sulawesi tools were made.

The 3.5 - million - year - old hominids appeared as models in an exhibit that had just opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; the replicas were based, in part, on fossilized footprints preserved in volcanic ash at Laetoli, Tanzania, which showed unequivocally that these creatures had walked upright.

But so far this year, field biologists have turned up new species from two branches of primates, as well as new fossils of what may have been the first hominid.

The smart birds seem to have evolved this flexible cognitive ability independently from hominids as the two lineages diverged about 320 million years ago

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

But australopithecines, such as the famous Lucy, lived in Africa between 1.4 and 4.5 million years ago, whereas the Liang Bua hominid lived...

Ardi's hip arrangement doesn't appear in two later fossil hominids, including the famous partial skeleton known as Lucy, a 3.2 - million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis.

At around 1 metre tall she is far shorter even than modern Pygmies, who range from 1.3 to 1.4 metres, and roughly the same size as the relatively primitive hominid Australopithecus.

We diverged from our hominid cousins as long as 400,000 years ago, and by 30,000 years ago they were gone, leaving the particulars of any intertwined history seemingly lost forever.

New discoveries, such as «Lucy» the fossil hominid, were rewriting the story of human origins.

Research at the University of Witwatersrand and the Transvaal Museum suggests that the animals and the hominids found at Makansgat were the prey of hyenas and large cats that used the cave as a den.

In that case, root fusion in Graecopithecus, as found in later fossil hominids, indicates a direct evolutionary connection, Begun says.