Sentences with phrase «at early hominid»
«I'd like to see if there is any evidence of stone pieces that could resemble these kinds of technologies at early hominid sites,» he says.
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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.
Rather, they were a much more primitive hominid population, possibly Homo habilis, whose members lived in, or at least transited, Dmanisi much earlier than what our accepted chronology of human evolution indicates.
If there were an earlier hominid exodus from Africa 2 million years ago or longer, researchers don't expect to find the proof at Dmanisi.
Owen Lovejoy, a paleoanthropologist at Kent State University, has spent his career studying the fossils of early hominids.
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.
Because of their fragility and size, bird bones have been rare or absent at most other eastern African fossil assemblages that included early hominids.
Their studies of the forest chimpanzees of West Africa suggest that for explanations of the physical and social characteristics of our earliest hominid forbears we should look at forests and woodland, not bush and grassland (New Scientist, Science, 19 May 1990).
Most of the senior members of the Chorora research team also belong to the Middle Awash project team that has recovered the fossil remains of at least eight hominid species, including some of the earliest hominids, spanning nearly 6 million years.
11 We've been at this a long time: Charred bones and wood ash indicate that early hominids were tending the first intentional fires more than 400,000 years ago.
The co-author on the paper, Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy, is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Kent State University, well known for his reconstructions of the socioecology and locomotor behavior of early hominids such as «Ardi» (Ardipithecus ramidus, 4.4 million years old) and «Lucy» (Australopithecus afarensis, 3.2 million years old).