Sentences with phrase «early ancestor of modern humans»

Homo erectus — an early ancestor of modern humans — resembled a squat body builder more than a svelte distance runner, a newly unearthed fossil pelvis suggests.

Not exact matches

With the recent discovery of anatomically modern humans evolving 100,000 years earlier than previously estimated, it's not out of the question that our ancestors did a lot of moving about.

Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors — the so - called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins.

«We know that there are likely to have been at least two admixture events into the ancestors of present - day people — the shared event early during modern human migration out of Africa, and a second event into the ancestors of present - day Asians,» says Kelso.

The last common ancestor of sharks and bony fishes probably didn't have gill arches arranged like those in modern sharks — which, in turn, suggests that the oldest known species of bony fishes can likely provide more information about the earliest jawed vertebrates (a group that today includes humans) than early chondrichthyans can, the researchers contend.

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.

A discovery shows our early ancestors were making tools long before the emergence of the modern human lineage, researchers say.

A new study debunks the idea that a diminutive early human species knick - named the «hobbits» of Indonesia were closely linked to an ancestor of modern humans.

More specifically the scientists provide the first genetic evidence of a scenario in which early modern humans left the African continent and mixed with archaic (now - extinct) members of the human family prior to the migration «out of Africa» of the ancestors of present - day non-Africans, less than 65,000 years ago.

The modern human sequences in the Altai Neanderthal appear to derive from a group of modern human ancestors from Africa that separated early from other humans, about the time present - day African populations diverged from one another, around 200,000 years ago.

Perhaps as early as 3.4 million years ago, the modern human ancestor Australopithecus afarensis was using stone tools to strip meat from the bones of large mammals.