Sentences with phrase «first homo»

Imagine the thrill and terror of the first Homo sapiens.

A piece of international research led by the UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country has retrieved the mitogenome of a fossil belonging to the first Homo sapiens population in Europe

After the first Homo sapiens arose in Africa, several bands walked out of the continent about 60,000 years ago and into the arms of Neandertals and other archaic humans.

«Migration back to Africa took place during the Palaeolithic: International research has retrieved mitogenome of a fossil belonging to the first Homo sapiens population in Europe.»

In this moment and for an indeterminate number of future ones whose precise number is lost to Time, this first homo sapien was the only human on Earth.

Women have been working outside the home since the first Homo sapiens wove a basket and went looking for berries, but the current model of women working for pay on a relatively equal playing field with men is still fairly new.

In the synthesis of philosophy and science presented by Faith, the evolution of the human brain at a critical juncture, the first homo sapiens, requires an external principle of control, one not determined by material forces, but controlling and directing them.

Instead, the authors describe recently discovered remains that suggest the first Homo sapiens showed up more than 100,000 years earlier than we thought in a place many experts didn't suspect.

Not exact matches

What is desired, and made possible to homo viator through this moment in this place, is a visionary encounter, first with being and, necessarily consequential to that encounter, with the Cause of being.

When Homo faber came into being the first rudimentary tool was born as an appendage of the human body.

Indeed all these ideas do become without meaning if the human person, the «I,» who is first of all concerned, is looked at from without, if the «I» is described as one can describe in general propositions the nature of a human being; if, as usually results, the individual man is regarded as a specimen of the genus homo.

I agree with Douglas Farrow's first two theses — that homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species and so characterized more by differences between male and female than by variation — but with the qualification that these sound like empirical claims, and it is perfectly conceivable that advances in reproductive technology might make sexual dimorphism and difference irrelevant.

of it; if I were to reach back in time to grasp the hand of the «first parent», regardless of whether the hand that I clasped was that of a fellow homo sapiens or that of an earlier form of the homo genus I would be able to shake the hand and greetits owner as a fellow man.

Not everyone with faith in God takes Eve as a physical being or even agrees if Moses was talking about the first Hebrew or Homo habilis.

It may well happen that Spurs finish the season above us as our team move into the next era of supremacy, but they will never be top dogs in London, they are third as they have been since homo erectus first crawled out of the swamplands of N17.

«Vote for the Homo, Not Cuomo» is not the first time she's wielded it during the New York governor's race.

• His first political campaign was his father's primary race against Ed Koch, during which Mario Cuomo's supporters put up signs in Brooklyn and Queens that said, «Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo.»

When Louis Leakey sat down to recount the discovery of what may be the earliest sign of cancer in the genus Homo, the first thing he remembered was the mud.

Today, he would be delighted to learn we have found fossils not only from the first two phases of human evolution, but also within our own genus, Homo.

The discovery shows, for the first time, that Homo sapiens was living in the Near East at the same time as Neandertals

That's important because Homo sapiens was thought to be the first species to produce abstract, non-functional designs.

Others contend the two are not human ancestors at all because they appeared around 400,000 years after the first evidence of H. habilis, the earliest in the Homo line.

According to Kenneth J. McNamara, they were probably the first objects collected for purely aesthetic reasons by ancestors to Homo sapiens, and provide a tangible record of an early and enduring obsession.

That process led to the emergence of Homo habilis, the first creature generally regarded as human, 2.3 million years ago.

Archaeologists have long thought that Homo erectus, humanity's first ancestor to spread around the world, evolved in Africa before dispersing throughout Europe and Asia.

HERE FIRST An unidentified Homo species pounded apart mastodon bones with large stones in southern California around 130,700 years ago, a controversial study concludes.

That woman was part of the first population of our species that inhabited Europe following the Eurasian expansion of Homo sapiens from Africa, and the lineage she belongs to reinforces the hypothesis of a back - migration to Africa during the Upper Palaeolithic, say investigators.

The newly developed method, which saves time and money, will first be used to study obsidian tools made by early humans, including Neanderthals and Homo erectus, tens of thousands of years ago.

Together with a reassessment of known fossils, published in Nature this week by Spoor and colleagues, the find is stimulating new efforts to sort out the mixed bag of early Homo remains and to and to work out which forms emerged first.

Although Liebenberg's observations support the runner - as - hunter hypothesis, Bramble and Lieberman think early Homo would more likely have first run to scavenge prey killed by other carnivores — a strategy the Hadza people of East Africa are known to use.

Using fossil and genetic studies to build her case, Shipman argues that European Homo sapiens used the first dogs to track...

Writing in Nature in 1964, the prominent paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey connected the tools with what he said was the first member of the human genus, Homo habilis, or «handy man.»

Five skulls from the same time period, including the first complete adult skull of the early Pleistocene (far right), suggest that early hominids may have been a single Homo species.

Although the fossil record for the first members of the Homo genus is poor, the earliest definitive H. habilis specimen is about 2.4 million years old.

The find — the first made with genetic, not fossil evidence — suggests that Central Asia was occupied at that time not only by Neandertals and Homo sapiens but also by a third, previously unknown hominin lineage.

In the 1960s Leakey proposed that Homo was the first toolmaker, which remains the accepted view.

First described in 2004 from fossils discovered at Liang Bua, a cave on the island of Flores, the meter - tall Homo floresiensis was instantly nicknamed after J.R.R. Tolkien's diminutive characters.

It's a sample of one, but because this is the first potential evidence of a dominant handed pre-Neanderthal, Frayer said, the study could lead to a search for the marks in other early Homo fossils.

Archaeologist Ladislav Nejman of the University of Sydney said one of the biggest questions is the beginnings of human exploration of this landscape by Homo sapiens who arrived in this area for the first time.

It's also the first sign of such behavior in hominids preceding the Homo lineage, say anthropologist Shannon McPherron of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and his colleagues.

The find does more than simply extend the prehistory of stone - tipped spears — it puts those first spears firmly in the hands of Homo heidelbergensis, says Wilkins.

It has been widely assumed that modern humans — Homo sapiens — first traveled out of Africa and settled in central and Western Europe before heading to Eastern Europe.

Animal Days (1979) traced Morris's life from childhood through the pivotal event of his life, the 1967 publication of The Naked Ape, the first widely read study of Homo sapiens from the viewpoint of a zoologist.

My prediction is that this is just the first of many preconceptions about early Homo that will be debunked in the next few years.»

There visitors can trace some six million years of human prehistory, from apelike creatures such as Sahelanthropus to anatomically modern Homo sapiens, from the first tool makers to the first artists.

Produced using cutting - edge methodology and the largest sample of individual early hominin fossils available, analysis of their results shows that early hominins were generally smaller than previously thought and that the increase in body size occurred not between australopiths and the origins of Homo but later with H. erectus (the first species widely found outside of Africa).

Their die - off coincided with the arrival of the first humans on the islands in the late 13th century, and scientists have long wondered what role hunting by Homo sapiens played in the moas» decline.

In Europe, there is a reduction in large carnivore diversity that coincides with the first permanent settlements of Homo in the continent, about 800,000 to 700,000 years ago, although this needs further research.

If the fossils are indeed younger or about the same age as the first members of Homo, which date about 2.5 million years ago, they can not be ancestral to it.

His most recent book is Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain and that's the first subject of our conversation.