Sentences with phrase «earlier members of»

(See the story «Hobbit Symposium Held», below) Although given the genus name Homo, the fossils found a few years ago in Indonesia exhibit many traits, especially in the hands and feet, of much earlier members of the hominin lineage, particularly Australopithecus afarensis, which lived three million years ago and is not thought to have migrated out of Africa.

In addition to being tiny, the bones display traits that are typically associated with earlier members of our genus, including pronounced browridges and a nonprojecting chin.

The influence of earlier members of the enduring object must be mediated through the more recent ones.

Hartshorne characterizes events in terms of increasing asymmetrical specificity: «the earlier members of an event - sequence» relatively to «the successors» are less definitely specified.

Before starting his company, he oversaw manufacturing and supply chain strategy at Apple and was an early member of the operations team of Nest, which was acquired by Google.

You on the other hand Angela couldn't be more wrong about Joseph Smith and the early members of the church.

The chrurch grew and the early members of the church were forced to leave New York.

The modifications and changes of the Oxford technique were made on a trial - and - error basis by the early members of what came to be called AA.

Many of the early members of Christianity were Jews, but there was never anything «completing» Judaism because it was never incomplete.

My mother was one of the early members of La Leche League, a breastfeeding advocacy community, and so I grew up in a home that normalized breastfeeding and distrusted formula companies.

We were early members of Food52 contributing recipes and competing together since its inception.

I was born in California, and my mother was an early member of La Leche League in the 1960s, so as I grew up and throughout my pregnancy, the support of this incredible organization was always something I knew I could count on.

As an early member of our fast - paced team, you will tackle challenges across a broad spectrum of responsibilities, and see directly their impact to the final product and success of the company.

As an early member of our fast - paced team, you will tackle challenges across a broad spectrum ofresponsibilities, and see directly their impact to the final product and success of the company.

This was the summer of 1999, and I was fortunate to find Lynne Lyon and others through the PAC list and signed on as an early member of the Attach - China e-mail list.

State Sen. Diane Savino, an early member of the IDC, rejected Murphy's criticism.

[12] He was an early member of Labour Friends of Israel.

Along with other hardline unionists, he left in protest at reforms and became an early member of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, serving as the party chairman in 1975 and being elected to the Constitutional Convention in the same year.

ANCIENT MOUTHFUL Researchers who discovered and analyzed a nearly complete set of 2 - million - year - old fossil teeth from a lower jaw suspect that the East African find comes from an early member of the human genus, Homo habilis.

Ancient hominin fossils are rare, and those from early members of our own genus, Homo, are rarer still.

It is considered to be a medium - sized sauropodomorph dinosaur — among the early members of the group that gave rise to the later long necked giants of the Mesozoic.

For more than a decade, a team of archaeologists and anthropologists scoured the Arabian Desert for evidence that some of the earliest members of our species once traversed these formerly green lands.

Even if the ancient inhabitants of the Dmanisi site were not early members of H. erectus, there is still a problem: anthropologists have previously thought that no hominins existed outside of Africa as early as 1.85 million years ago.

Famed paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey thought tools made the man, and so when he uncovered hominid bones near stone tools in Tanzania in the 1960s, he labeled the putative toolmaker Homo habilis, the earliest member of the human genus.

This early member of our genus evolved 1.9 million years ago and lasted at least 1 million years.

More recent fossil discoveries in the same region, including the iconic 3.7 million year old Laetoli footprints from Tanzania which show human - like feet and upright locomotion, have cemented the idea that hominins (early members of the human lineage) not only originated in Africa but remained isolated there for several million years before dispersing to Europe and Asia.

«Early members of these Triassic reptile lineages are appearing where they've been predicted for years.

The lack of corroborating fossils makes it hard to be positive that Rotodactylus was an early member of the dinosaur line (and not, say, a closely related archosaur), but if Haubold is correct, dinosaurs emerged earlier and took longer to dominate than scientists believed.

Among them were saber - toothed cats, Etruscan wolves, hyenas the size of lions — and early members of the human family.

Ditto for the claim that H. naledi purposefully buried the bodies of its fellows in both caves, or that it might have acquired some of its modern traits by mating with other early members of Homo.

Like Rotodactylus, the earliest members of the dinosaur lineage were small, with fragile, chickenlike bones that rarely lasted long enough to form fossils.

The work, published in Nature Communications today with a concurrent study on H. naledi's hands, provides insight into the skeletal form and function that may have characterized early members of our genus.

This overturns earlier ideas suggesting that the earliest members of the anthropoid lineage were quite large, the size of modern monkeys.»

«One of our major results is that we found no evidence that the earliest members of our genus differed in body mass from earlier australopiths (some of the earliest species of hominins),» said Dr. Grabowski, who is also a Fulbright scholar at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo.

A new analysis of early hominin body size evolution led by a George Washington University professor suggests that the earliest members of the Homo genus (which includes our species, Homo sapiens) may not have been larger than earlier hominin species.

PARIS — He may be called Little Foot, but for human evolution researchers he's a big deal: His is the most complete skeleton known of an early member of the human lineage.

This discovery suggests that feather - like structures were likely widespread in dinosaurs, possibly even in the earliest members of the group.

Yet the Sima people also still had relatively small brains and other primitive features, suggesting they were very early members of the lineage that eventually gave rise to Neandertals.

But it's also possible that these early members of the dog lineage weren't yet tame or living with humans, says Pontus Skoglund, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School who led the study.

Its anatomy suggests it is one of the earliest members of our genus to evolve, but frustratingly, we don't yet know exactly how old the skeletons are.

However, little is known about enamel thickness in the earliest members of the genus Homo, and recent studies of later Homo report considerable intra - and inter-specific variation.

Whether H. floresiensis is correctly attributed to the genus Homo; if actually a member of an earlier member of the hominin lineage, such as H. erectus; could Hobbit belong to A. afarensis and if so how did Honnit's ancestors get to Indonesia; these are all questions difficult to answer on the evidence currently available.

The earliest members of the group lived between 2 and 3 million years ago.

Tim White, a professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California at Berkeley, told Discovery that these early members of our genus were fairly short in stature with large, projecting faces, big teeth and small brains.

Yet another study focused on the height of Homo heidelbergensis and two other early human family tree members: Neanderthals and Cro - Magnon people, which were the earliest members of our species.

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Some of the earliest members of our family tree were able to do relatively sophisticated tasks with their hands.

These early members of the human family tree also had an opposable thumb.

The earliest members of the artiodactyls, perissodactyls and primates were also much smaller than their immediate descendants.

Until now it has been thought tje earliest members of our species left Africa was around 50,000 years ago.