Sentences with phrase «erectus when»

Oh homo erectus... he wrecked us... he wrecked us So why did he leave us small brain should have been a select us Oh homo erectus... he wrecked us... he wrecked us... should have left that fire alone... stuck with the raw... and left dark matter in the dark... oh pine for homo erectus when fight or flight didn't need to check a manifest and destiny was timeless

Not exact matches

When paleoanthropologist Lee Berger unearthed a fossil near Johannesburg, South Africa, it seemed to be a jumble of parts: a braincase similar in size to that of an Australopithecus africanus, a Homo erectus pelvis, and the arms of a Miocene ape.

Differences in age and sex, says Tattersall, can not account for the wide variation in features such as jaw and brow shape not only among Dmanisi skulls, but also when compared with H. erectus fossils from other sites.

For example, Aiello and her colleagues proposed that when our brains began to expand dramatically about 1.6 million years ago, our direct ancestor Homo erectus evolved a smaller gut that sucked up less energy (Science, 15 June 2007, p. 1560).

«I predict that when new hominin fossils from So'a are found from the 1 million year horizon, they'll already be small - bodied and more primitive that H. erectus,» says William Jungers at Stony Brook University in New York.

Translating the differences between gene sequences into a date for their divergence, the researchers conclude that the various forms of RRM2P4 last shared a common ancestor about two million years ago — around when H. erectus migrated from Africa into Asia.

But «the jury is still out» on whether cooking was responsible for the first dramatic burst of brain growth in our lineage, in H. erectus, Martin says, or whether our ancestors began cooking over a fire later, when the brain went through a second major growth spurt about 600,000 years ago.

Besides two Homo erectus skeletons, it contains stalagmites that have helped solve one of the greatest mysteries in climate science: why the ice ages came and went when they did.

Goodman ignores most of them, but misrepresents at least one: he calls the Rhodesian Man skull a late - surviving H. erectus, when it is, at 1280 cc., larger than any erectus skull and falls nicely into the morphological and temporal gaps which he claims separate H. erectus and H. sapiens.

H. habilis was small statured, unlike later finds of H. erectus and when more examples of Australopithecus were found in subsequent decades, it was clear the brain size of H. habilis was only slightly larger than that of contemporary australopithecines.