Sentences with phrase «early hominins evolved»

Not exact matches

Wrangham aimed to fill a gap in the story of how early hominins like Australopithecus — essentially, apes that walked upright — evolved into modern Homo sapiens.

Researchers agree that small - brained hominins in the genus Australopithecus evolved into early Homo between 3 million and 2.5 million years ago, but the Homo fossil trail disappears at the crucial time.

Furthermore, until this year, all fossil hominins older than 1.8 million years (the age of early Homo fossils from Georgia) came from Africa, leading most researchers to conclude that this was where the group evolved.

One idea is that it evolved from a small early hominin species like H. habilis or the even more primitive Australopithecus, so far known only from fossils in Africa.

Our evolving chemical signature, they suggest, allowed us to outcompete other apes and early hominins, referring to the numerous humanlike species that arose after our split with chimpanzees over six million years ago.

A close examination of 3.6 million year old hominin footprints discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania suggests our ancestors evolved the hallmark trait of extended leg, human - like bipedalism substantially earlier than previously thought.