Sentences with phrase «early human fossils»

The history of early human fossil finds is a long and messy one, and as the new Homo naledi find shows, it remains a work in progress.

That has implications for how we interpret other early human fossil finds representing the transition from Australopithecus to Homo, he says.

The oldest early human fossil out of Africa has been discovered in a cave in Israel.

If Sharp gets corresponding dates via the uranium - series method, «then we can carry it elsewhere, where we don't have volcanic ashes, like in South Africa, where there are tons of important early human fossils.»

A fossilised bee's nest found near a revolutionary early human fossil can tell us more about the habitat the hominin lived in and how it got preserved

The Broken Hill skull is the first early human fossil found in Africa and provided the primary evidence to support Darwin's theory of evolution, proposing humans as the natural descendants of primates.

A CT scan of Lucy, one of the oldest early human fossils, suggests she died by falling from a great height — probably from a tree.

The early human fossil record isn't normally this rich.

As he wrote in his published commentary, «While many have concentrated on East Africa as the key and perhaps sole region for the origins of the genus Homo, the continuing surprises emerging from further south remind us that Africa is a huge continent that even now is largely unexplored for its early human fossils.»