Sentences with phrase «brain case»

The lower jaw was found in 2000, and the matching brain case turned up in 2005.

With a last common ancestor 24 million years ago, monkeys have smaller brain cases than apes relative to body size and a shorter life span.

Nor long legs and hooves, although man's large brain case has made birthing more difficult admittedly.

The hippo skull, meanwhile, with its tiny brain case and tilted aspect, somehow suggests gentleness.

Detractors have long argued that LB1 exhibits a number of skeletal and dental anomalies in addition to her minuscule brain case, including various asymmetries in the skull and skeleton.

Adult human skulls look much like those of baby chimpanzees, with flattened faces and over-sized brain cases.

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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Eventually the cognitive dissonance hits the resonant frequency of their mostly evacuated brain casings and they implode.

After four years of searching, he uncovered a skullcap with a simian - like brow ridge and a large brain case, along with other fragmentary fossils, buried near the Solo River on the Indonesian island of Java.

-- Walcott, just watches Alonso sprint in and try to break Bellerain's brain case.

The shape of the brain case was the first to change: the new skull has a braincase shaped like a typical H. erectus despite its small size.

Anthropologists have found much older hominin fossils dating back several million years, but entire skulls comprising the brain case, the face and the lower jaw are rare.

There is an element of slapstick, too: the giant clapping mouth, and not much room for a brain case — these are endearing features.

And a bony strut that connects a fish's jaw hinge to the brain case became one of three tiny bones in this chamber.

They found that compared to their ancestors, birds» faces became flattened, and their brain cases relatively larger.

The brain cases been measured at 546 cm ³ and is clearly attributable to H. erectus.

It's particularly surprising that as shrew skeletons shrink, their skulls shrink too — and so, too, does their brain case and brain.

Pithecanthropus IV, discovered in the late 1930's, «was a nearly complete skull», when it actually consisted of the back part of a brain case and an upper jaw.

The earlier skull is typical erectus in its morphology, yet has a rounded occiput and a brain case of about 1390cc.

So although the extreme lower range of modern human brain sizes does overlap that of Homo erectus, their skulls are very different: in H. erectus, the brain case really is smaller in relation to the rest of the skull.

The absolute in brain size, however, caused changes in the brain case; for instance, the braincase is higher than in Homo habilis, but lower than in later hominin species.

The presence and variability of browridges in archaic Homo species and their absence in ourselves have led to debate concerning their morphogenesis and function, with two main hypotheses being put forward: that browridge morphology is the result of the spatial relationship between the orbits and the brain case; and that browridge morphology is significantly impacted by biting mechanics.