Sentences with phrase «brow ridges»

People like us were probably not around then, just various large - brained but ruggedly built people with brow ridges.

Moreover, unlike modern humans with low brain sizes, these skulls are very robust, with flattened braincases and large brow ridges.

It is low and angular, and the brow ridges are enormous, the largest known on any fossil hominin.

Actually, Neandertals are usually classified as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, a subspecies of humans, in recognition of consistent differences such as heavy brow ridges, a long low skull, a robust skeleton, and others.

The level of hairiness of the Neanderthals was unknown so, «as the primitive men ofAustraliahave several Neanderthaloid characters, including heavy brow ridges, it was decided to follow their hirsute type.»

Neandertal An extinct species of human with a receding forehead and prominent brow ridges that was widely distributed in ice - age Europe between about 120,000 and 35,000 years ago.

Goodman points out, correctly, that the brow ridges of Homo erectus are more massive than those of H. habilis and H. sapiens and that this constitutes an evolutionary reversal, but says that:

In terms of features from the late archaic / early modern humans found throughout the Old World, the researchers observed the fossils as having a large size that fitted a large brain, and cranial vaults that were lightly built and had modest brow ridges.

«In Neanderthal children of the same age, brow ridges would be showing,» says Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, a member of the team.

They have thinner brow ridges and less robust skull bones, similar to early modern humans and some other Asian fossils.

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.

The study contributes to a long - running academic debate about why other hominins, including our immediate ancestors, had gigantic brow ridges while anatomically modern humans evolved flatter foreheads.

Seven new skulls, plus 10 others deposited in the pit at about the same time, have distinct Neandertal traits, including robust lower jaws, small teeth at the rear of the jaw, and thick brow ridges with a distinctive double arch.

Big brow ridges and teeth suggest that ancient Homo heidelbergensis (above) may have had more testosterone than modern Homo sapiens (left).

Males with generally higher testosterone levels are known to have thicker brow ridges and cranial bones than men with lower testosterone.

While the study couldn't control for every variable that might have affected the shape of the skulls, the trend the researchers found was toward thinner craniums and less prominent brow ridges starting around 80,000 years ago and possibly earlier.

THE odd leg bones and prominent brow ridges of a fossil hominid found in Belgium in 1830 clearly belong to an ancient relative of Homo sapiens.

Fossil remains and anatomical reconstructions indicate that the typical Neandertal had a stocky muscular body with short forearms and legs, a large head with bony brow ridges and a brain slightly larger than ours, a jutting face with a large nose, and perhaps reddish hair and fair skin.

Chimps developed prominent brow ridges, flat noses, low - crowned heads and protruding muzzles.

It had the rounded skull case but retained the large brow ridges of archaic humans.

Satan has a strong brow ridge.

Neanderthals sometimes seem like our defining Other, recognizably human yet not: Homo sapiens in a funhouse mirror that pushes the face forward yet obliterates the chin; inflates the brow ridge yet compresses the skull; and bulks out the chest yet truncates the lower limbs.

After chimps started acting as if they saw themselves in the mirror, after about 10 days, he anaesthetized them and applied an odor - free red mark to a location on their faces they could not see, such as above the brow ridge.

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.

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 skull shows a new mix of features not seen before in fossil humans — it has traits that link it to Neandertals, such as a fused brow ridge, as well as some primitive traits that resemble other extinct fossils in Europe.

Using 3D engineering software, the researchers looked at the iconic brow ridge of a fossilised skull, known as Kabwe 1, held in the collections of the National History Museum.

Then we simulated the forces of biting on different teeth and found that very little strain was placed on the brow ridge.

Professor O'Higgins said: «We used modelling software to shave back Kabwe's huge brow ridge and found that the heavy brow offered no spatial advantage as it could be greatly reduced without causing a problem.

The area behind the skull's thick brow ridge (which suggests it was a male) is relatively flat.

Like the antlers on a stag, a pronounced brow ridge was a permanent signal of dominance and aggression in our early ancestors, which modern humans traded in for a smooth forehead with more visible, hairy eyebrows capable of a greater range of movement.

«In apes, chimps, and gorillas, you have a big depression just behind this brow ridge,» says Brunet.

«Since the shape of the brow ridge is not driven by spatial and mechanical requirements alone, and other explanations for brow ridges such as keeping sweat or hair out of eyes have already been discounted, we suggest a plausible contributing explanation can be found in social communication.»

As for the Dinaledi finds, Schwartz and Tattersall point out that although the foreheads of some of the new skulls are gently sloped, one skull has a taller forehead with a distinct brow ridge — suggesting two species are present.

Like more archaic lineages, H. heidelbergensis has a massive brow ridge and no chin.

Viewed from the side, the Forest Cat has a straight profile, i.e. straight from the brow ridge to the tip of the nose.

Not exact matches

And if it's a really big animal, you can clearly see the toad's rough warty skin, big poison glands on its shoulders, bony ridges above its brows, and so forth.

Among the top - five genes, there were three that regulate the structure of the skeleton, where, for example, mutations in one gene have been shown to lead to the prominent brow - ridges and rib forms reminiscent of Neanderthals.

«Pick the shape closest to your own, center the stencil on the ridge of your brow bone, and fill it in with brow powder or gel,» says Sarnelle, who began designing stencils after a client lost her brows during breast cancer treatment.

Use the ridge of your brow bone as a guide.

Screaming from apex to apex, flying over brows, and crashing into dips, the Focus prepared by the Special Vehicle Team snaps after every pothole, kicks every ridge, and fights every surface change.

Other warnings are the tensing of facial muscles, such as a closed mouth, tension ridges on muzzle; ears back; eyes staring directly into yours, or else «whale eyes» (showing the white) looking at you but with the head turned in a different direction; brow tense or furrowed.