Sentences with phrase «direct ancestor of humans»

Both hominids were about 1.2 metres tall and lightly built, with ape - sized brains and bodies resembling A. africanus, which is thought to have been a direct ancestor of humans.

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Finally, several hundred thousand years ago, our direct human ancestors appeared and began to spread out over the face of the earth.

If you could line up photos of every direct ancestor you had going back millions of generations you would notice that you most closely resemble those closest to you in line but, the further distant into the past you go, your ancestors would look less like you and finally less human even.

The direct ancestors of our species spread out from Africa much later, after they had already become anatomically and behaviourally much more human.

As Martinón - Torres explains, for a long time the idea was held that this species was a direct ancestor of modern humanity, and «all the human fossils found in what we call the Far East and in the current islands of Indonesia have been attributed systematically to Homo erectus.

Fossils of a human species new to science could be the direct ancestor of our genus, Homo.

If correct, that would mean he is old enough to be a direct ancestor of today's humans, and could shift South Africa to the forefront of human evolution.

An analysis of its sequence provided strong evidence that Neanderthals lie on a separate branch of the human family tree and are not our direct ancestors.

The tools, whose makers may or may not have been some sort of human ancestor, push the known date of such tools back by 700,000 years; they also may challenge the notion that our own most direct ancestors were the first to bang two rocks together to create a new technology.

This proximity in time, and anatomical features that appear to foreshadow those of early humans, have made Lucy's species the main contender as a direct ancestor of Homo.

Ever since the discovery of Lucy's species in 1974, she has been considered a prime candidate for a direct human ancestor.

Though its physical features are closer to human than other australopithecines, A. sediba is hundreds of thousands of years younger than the oldest fossils assigned to the genus Homo, meaning it is unlikely to be our direct ancestor.

Still, he doubts H. naledi was a direct ancestor of modern humans.

The discovery of ancient human remains in an important cave site in South Africa raises major questions about the evolution of our direct ancestors, Homo sapiens.

The dating of this species is significant, in that a date earlier than habilis makes this species the first habiline, and with its very large brain, a candidate for being a direct human ancestor.

They tend to see ergaster as a direct ancestor of modern humans with erectus being an evolutionary dead - end.

They are not regarded as direct human ancestors but DNA analysis has revealed that between 1 % and 4 % of the Eurasian human genome seems to come from Neanderthals.

«It's possible we'll one day find three groups of hominin fossils — those with Gc - CS before the human lineage branched off, those without Gc - CS in our direct lineage, and then more recent fossils in which trace amounts of Gc - CS began to reappear when our ancestors began eating red meat,» Varki said.

Homo habilis may be a direct human ancestor, a dead - end side - branch that leads nowhere, an invalid species whose designated examples belong in other species, or Wolpoff may be right, and all these species are basically part of one highly variable widespread species.