Sentences with phrase «early human ancestors»

Some of those fossils have been passed down from very early human ancestors.

«Think of early human ancestors, where we have only scattered fossil fragments, and the problem of relying on morphology is obvious.»

Scrapes and grooves, supposedly cut into fossil bones by early human ancestors, are nearly indistinguishable from marks left by crocodiles» gnashing teeth, according to a new study.

An unknown hominin species that bred with early human ancestors when they migrated from Africa to Australasia has been identified through genome mapping of living humans.

«The new species is the most conclusive evidence for the contemporaneous presence of more than one closely related early human ancestor species prior to 3 million years ago,» the Cleveland Museum of Natural History said in a statement released Wednesday.

An examination of over 5,000 teeth from early human ancestors shows that many of the first Europeans probably came from Asia

That means a creature reminiscent of much earlier human ancestors such as H. habilis lived at the same time as modern humans were emerging in Africa and Neandertals were evolving in Europe.

The primitive traits in this 3.4 - million - year - old partial right foot also show that there was more than one way for early human ancestors to walk upright for at least a million years, according to a new study.

«Early human ancestors used their hands like modern humans.»

The hand features likely evolved from even earlier human ancestors that possessed long fingers and short thumbs, which facilitate maneuvering in trees.

Fossil evidence indicates that multiple early human ancestor species lived at the same time more than 3 million years ago, at least four identified hominin species that co-existed between 3.8 and 3.3 million years ago during the middle Pliocene.

The body dimensions used in the model — 30 kg for females, 55 kg for males — were based on a group of early human ancestors, or hominins, such as Australopithicus afarensis, the species that includes the famous Ethiopian fossil «Lucy.»

It might answer the argument about whether or not spoken language stemmed from early human ancestors.

However distinct Christian revelation may appear to be, it is still linked to the long human search for meaning and mystery upon which our earliest human ancestors embarked as long ago as the Old Stone Age.

There may be other costs as well to distancing ourselves from the primal instincts for birthing and feeding our babies upon which our earliest human ancestors» survival depended.

This is likely the point when the ancestor of leprosy bacteria jumped to our early human ancestors and transitioned from free - living to strictly parasitic.

Two 9.7 - million - year - old fossil teeth found in Germany probably belong to a primitive primate and something like a deer, not an early human ancestor as has been reported

With their opposable toes and flat feet, early human ancestors have often been portrayed as weird walkers, swaying from side to side or rolling off the outside edges of their feet.

It's hard to pin down the biological basis for the changes that took place in early human ancestors and domesticated animals as they developed lower levels of aggression.

Both of our close relatives, like our early human ancestors, would have been able to detect this strange smell.

Our love affair with blooming plants began with the earliest human ancestors.

A recent Baylor University research study has shed new light on the diet and food acquisition strategies of some the earliest human ancestors in Africa.

A study led by physical geographer at Southampton Professor Tony Brown, in collaboration with archaeologist Dr Laura Basell at Queen's University Belfast, has found that sites popular with our early human ancestors, were abundant in foods containing nutrients vital for a balanced diet.

It was the Pliocene, an epoch when the earliest human ancestors evolved in Africa.

Ancient stone artifacts from East Africa were first uncovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania in the mid-20th century, and those tools were later associated with fossil discoveries in the 1960s of the early human ancestor Homo habilis.

The early human ancestor that used stone tools to slice up raw meat before eating it is known as Homo erectus.

At a time when our earliest human ancestors had recently mastered walking upright, the heart of our Milky Way galaxy underwent a titanic eruption, driving gases and other material outward at 2 million miles per hour.

A 3.6 million - year - old skeleton belonging to an early human ancestor was unveiled in South Africa.

At 4.4 million years ago, Ethiopia's Ardipithecus ramidus is the earliest human ancestor well represented by skeletal remains.

Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors.

«Scientists believe the almost - complete fossilised skeleton belonged to a previously - unknown type of early human ancestor that may have been an intermediate stage as ape - men evolved into the first species of advanced humans,» Richard Gray wrote in the Telegraph.

A January 2014 study by oxford university revealed that 2 million years ago our earliest human ancestors relied heavily upon this root which fueled up to 80 % of their diet.

In a post-studio practice, we are brought into the true heart of making that goes back to our earliest human ancestors — makers who gave us language, song, mathematics, dance, religion, philosophy, and poetry.

His Out of Eden Walk attempts to retrace the migratory pathways of our early human ancestors, as discernible from the archaeological record and the emerging science of genography.

The earliest work in this exhibition is a stone shaped like a human face that was picked up by early human ancestors 3m years ago.