Sentences with phrase «before homo»

Long before Homo sapiens, and even well before our genus «Homo.»

After all, they are only able to put a realistic figure on the loss of diversity and the role of humans by comparing different epochs: What was the world like before Homo sapiens transformed it completely?

The discovery seems to confirm that more than one type of Australopithecus existed in the area that is now Ethiopia before our Homo lineage appeared — perhaps as early as 2.8 million years ago.

The most important sites, dating between 500,000 to 100,000 years ago were based at the lower end of river valleys, providing ideal bases for early hominins — early humans who lived before Homo sapiens (us).

This personal ornament was created roughly 60,000 years before Homo sapiens reached Europe, say paleontologist Davorka Radovčić of the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb and her colleagues.

Stone tool makers ventured from Southeast Asia to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi deep in the Stone Age, far earlier than previously thought and probably before Homo sapiens originated in Africa 200,000 years ago, researchers say.

This bird went extinct before the Homo sapiens ever took a step.

Wall paintings previously discovered in three Spanish caves have now been dated to 65,000 years ago — some 20,000 years before Homo sapiens is thought to have arrived in Europe.

«They have evidence that hominids in Africa had already been impacting the size distribution of mammals on that continent before Homo sapiens evolved,» says paleoecologist Emily Lindsey, assistant curator and excavation site director of the La Brea Tar Pits Museum in Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study.

SHELL GAME A geometric design carved into this shell may indicate that human ancestors took up at least one form of «modern human behavior» long before Homo sapiens came along.

What was the planet like before Homo sapiens, and would it still be that way if we had never gone global?

Other researchers contend that Neandertals, who inhabited Europe before Homo sapiens showed up, made these items on their own -LRB-

Not exact matches

We do not know why there should be millions of years of life upon this planet before ever Homo sapiens appeared.

Science informs us of the existence of both good and evil, within the Cosmos, long before the emergence of homo - sapiens, on planet Earth, who then committed Original Sin.

The historical Jesus as a proven divine fact is a worldly security with which the homo relgiosus arms himself in his effort to become self - sufficient before God, just as did the Jew in Paul's day by appeal to the law.

I think I had in mind the whole evolution of the human race, before we were officially Homo sapiens.

The man who authored the «Vote Cuomo, not the Homo» line and who refused to lobby in favor of gay marriage needs to rethink his tactics before he calls out any more names.»

They came from Africa, reached the Levant, then retreated or went extinct before a second, successful wave of African Homo sapiens arrived in the region around 60,000 years ago.

Neandertals drew on cave walls and made personal ornaments long before encountering Homo sapiens, two new studies find.

A member of the now - extinct hominid species Homo erectus engraved a geometric design on a sea shell nearly half a million years ago, long before the earliest evidence of comparable etchings made by modern humans, researchers say.

So at some point in our evolutionary history, well before the emergence of Homo sapiens, there may have been non-orgasmic ejaculators and orgasmic ejaculators.

During a June news conference, shortly before the study was published in Nature, Hublin noted it's unlikely the Jebel Irhoud individuals, the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils by about 100,000 years, are our direct ancestors.

(The five previous extinction events all came before the evolution of Homo sapiens, apparently triggered by a cataclysmic event or combination of events, such as a fall in sea level, an asteroid impact, volcanic activity.)

But as my A.S.U. colleague Kim Hill has put it, Even before the invention of agriculture, human communities may have eventually numbered around 70 million individuals... as Homo sapiens spread over the planet more broadly than any other large vertebrate.

Archaeologists have long thought that Homo erectus, humanity's first ancestor to spread around the world, evolved in Africa before dispersing throughout Europe and Asia.

Using DNA sequencing, scientists have learned that anatomically modern humans interbred with Homo neanderthalensis, or the Neanderthals, probably around 60,000 years ago in the Middle East, before they fanned out to populate Europe and Asia.

Researchers have identified the evolutionary origins of human herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 and -2, reporting that the former infected hominids before their evolutionary split from chimpanzees 6 million years ago while the latter jumped from ancient chimpanzees to ancestors of modern humans — Homo erectus — approximately 1.6 million years ago.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified the evolutionary origins of human herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 and -2, reporting that the former infected hominids before their evolutionary split from chimpanzees 6 million years ago while the latter jumped from ancient chimpanzees to ancestors of modern humans — Homo erectus — approximately 1.6 million years ago.

Before they disappeared, the Denisovans found time to interbreed with Homo sapiens.

This past May, concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere reached levels never before experienced by us, Homo sapiens.

Teeth found in a Chinese cave back up the idea that Homo sapiens reached China thousands of years before it was assumed they left Africa

If the analysis holds up, it supports the controversial out - of - Africa theory that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa before migrating to other continents.

Despite the results, however, the issue of timing complicates our understanding: While Karabo was estimated to be living shortly before fossils of Homo show up in South Africa, there are Homo fossils in East Africa that precede it by hundreds of thousands of years.

It has been widely assumed that modern humans — Homo sapiens — first traveled out of Africa and settled in central and Western Europe before heading to Eastern Europe.

The bulk of one interviewee's beard, the size of another's collection of musical instruments, the length of a third's pants: as Garreau knows all too well, these are the indispensable rivets to hold the attention of the current version of Homo sapiens while we try to ponder whether we will have indefinite life spans or whether the world will end before our children have a chance to grow up.

The team analyzed the projection of the brow ridge, facial shape, and cranial volume of 13 early Homo sapiens that lived before 80,000 years ago; 41 modern humans that lived 38,000 to 10,000 years ago; and skulls from a global sample of 1367 recent humans.

The first anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) appear in Africa some time before 100kYA — they evolved from Homo heidelbergensis.

Though some speculation is required here, there is general agreement that by the early Pleistocene, around 2 million years ago, the African habitat of our ancestor Homo erectus was much more arid than before, and food was harder to come by.

Then, shortly before 40,000 years ago, Homo sapiens — possibly now armed with more sophisticated technology and adaptive skills — began the massive migration that would take our species to pretty much everywhere on the globe, including the territories in Europe and Asia that were already occupied by Neandertals.

Because most researchers agree that Neandertals were not as cognitively advanced as modern humans, Lahn and his coauthors suggest that the haplogroup might have made Homo sapiens better able to adapt to the Eurasian environments that Neandertals had occupied long before modern newcomers arrived.

«Long before the out - of - Africa dispersal of Homo sapiens [70,000 to 60,000 years ago], there was a dispersal within Africa,» Hublin says.

They had amassed more data than ever before to compare Homo floresiensis with other species, and they'd used analyses to find the best fit for the fossils on the hominin family tree.

Milford Wolpoff of the University of Michigan and his colleagues maintain that the principal human races - Negroids, Caucasoids, Mongoloids, Australian aboriginal peoples and southern African Bushmen - began to evolve well before the appearance of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens.

If the marriage of stem cells and CRISPR follows a similar path, it might not be long before pigs have enough Homo sapiens in them not only to grow human hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys for transplant but also to model human diseases more closely than current lab animals do and to test experimental drugs.

«This is a strange combination of features that we didn't know before in early Homo,» Ponce de Leon said.

Over the last few decades, however, as subsequent discoveries pushed back the date for the earliest stone tools to 2.6 million years ago (Ma) and the earliest fossils attributable to early Homo to only 2.4 - 2.3 Ma, there has been increasing openness to the possibility of tool manufacture before 2.6 Ma and by hominins other than Homo.

Zinjanthropus: it was indeed displaced by Homo habilis within a few years of its discovery, but even before then it had never been considered to be a human ancestor by anyone but Louis Leakey.

It's also possible that the little humans «evolved before the earliest Homo habilis, which would make it very archaic indeed.»

We already have a catastrophe the likes of which homo sapiens have never before experienced.

«Instead, I think our findings show that the traditional view that stone tool use was something that only members of our own genus Homo were capable of is outdated,» senior author Tracy Kivell told Discovery News, explaining that stone tool usage «goes back much earlier — long before the appearance of Homo — than we originally thought.»