Sentences with phrase «for hominid»

«A comparison between the Olduvai Hominines and those of Java, and some implications for hominid phylogeny.»

A fossil ape that had been found in India also encouraged him to believe that Asia would be a good place to look for hominid fossils.

Added a page listing type specimens for hominid species.

Brunet argues that the canines alone make it a strong candidate for a hominid.

The researchers argue for its hominid status partly because of its lower canine teeth, which in cross section are diamond - shaped like those of later hominids rather than V - shaped like those of apes.

She weighed about 50 kilograms, had a brain that was small for a hominid and a varied diet of nuts, fruit and meat.

The fossil record for hominids is clearly gradualistic, for example.

Many OT, NT and koran thumpers are actually thumping the rules and codes of the ancients like King Hammurabi and the Egyptians who wrote the Book of the Dead and who did NOT need revelations from angels or mountain voices to develop needed rules of conduct for us hominids.

Some mid — 20th - century comparative anatomists were so impressed with the profound differences between human and extant ape feet that they postulated a deep, pre-ape origin for hominids.

Weighing between 8 and 15 pounds, the tools were too cumbersome for hominids, whose early hammer stones usually weigh less than a pound.

That analysis helped them rule out some other explanations for the hominids» presence in the cave.

The following graph from McHenry (1994), plotting brainsizes against time, shows a general trend towards increased brainsize over time for the hominids:

Not exact matches

Show me the modern textbooks that present «Nebraska Man» as a hominid fossil, show me or admit once and for all that you creationists often simply lie to try to support your point of view.

Earlier hominids did not count in Scripture's rendition because it focused on Semites, which allows for Indians in America, and Chinese in China.

For a $ 199 check and mouth swab sent to the National Geographic's Genographic Project you can find out if your relatives co-mingled with these extinct species of hominids.

A few that pop to mind are the Coconino Sandstone, the meandering / lateral channels in the Grand Canyon, the progressive order of the fossil record (complete with a pre-hominid through hominid progression), forms which bear features bridging the specially - created kinds (i.e. fish with tetrapod features, reptiles with mammalian features, reptiles with avian features, etc), the presence of anomalous morphological / genetic features (e.g. the recurrent laryngeal nerve, male nip - ples, the presence of a defunct gene for egg - yolk production in our own placental mammal genomes), etc, etc..

Furthermore, as modern genetic sequencing has revealed for H. neanderthalensis, their unique and distinct genomes also indicate these extinct hominids were absolutely not modern H. sapiens.

And concepts of good and evil can easily be defined as human (or hominid) created concepts that are necessary for forming civilizations.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

Read yourself some Stephen Pinker... cooperation is a positive selector for survival and reproduction in human beings, if not all the hominids, so your basic premise is flawed.

Indeed, language may be THE most important ingredient in why and how we changed from just another band of hominids on the African grasslands to a truly global species that has dominated the environment, for good and ill, like no other species in history.

Show me the modern textbooks that present «Nebraska Man» as a hominid fossil, show me or admit once and for all that you creationists often simply lie to try to support your point of view... I'm serious.

No doubt the neural ground for the possibility of psychosomatic beings like ourselves to be able to develop aptitudes in this way was afforded by the plasticity of the hominid brain.

She is the author of Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa 1993, and the co-editor of Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives (1995), which includes her chapters «Beauty and the Breast: The Cultural Context of Breastfeeding in the United States,» and «A Time to Wean: The Hominid Blueprint for a Natural Age of Weaning in Modern Human Populations.»

Organizers of the São Paulo march couldn't get a permit from officials to march, so the event was set up as something of a science fair, featuring several tents with the names of famous Brazilian scientists, each one with a display of scientific research — for example, insect collections and casts of hominid skulls from the University of São Paulo.

Given the recent discovery in Flores of a dwarf hominid species related to Homo erectus, it is possible that H. erectus made it to more places than we have evidence for.

A 12 - million - year - old fossil hominid from Spain provides the strongest evidence yet for this idea.

Looking for signs of pathology, disease, and weakness in a group of hominids long thought by many to have «died out» in classic Darwinian survival - of - the - fittest style, the team's ultimate diagnosis was surprising: these Neandertals were in large part a robust, healthy people.

They are discovering signs of healed wounds, of toothless old hominids who must have been cared for by others.

«The potential for mirror self - recognition evolved between 18 and 14 million years ago in the shared ancestor of hominids... We do not know what this creature looked like, but it is likely to have known what it looked like.»

Those same scanners also make it possible for paleoanthropologists to look inside the fossils of ancient hominids and see things that until now have been shrouded in mystery.

Obsidian used for the Middle Stone Age tools came from far away, raising the likelihood of long - distance contacts and trading among hominid populations near humankind's root.

Begun was looking for ancient hominid bones when he spotted the teeth trapped beneath a rhino's shoulder blade.

The South African fossil hunter famed for his discoveries of early hominids was going on a few photographs.

Still, «we can not be sure who made the Attirampakkam tools, because we lack fossil [hominids] for this time period in India,» Pappu says.

«Making a case for [hominids] on this side of the Pacific Ocean at 130,000 years ago is a very heavy lift, and this site doesn't make it.»

«The mosaic Ardi pelvis fits with its equally mosaic foot and reveals, for the first time, how hominids became bipedal.»

«Our results call attention to the strong discrepancies between molecular and paleontological estimates of the divergence time between Neanderthals and modern humans,» said Aida Gómez - Robles, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral scientist at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of The George Washington University.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

So, given three possible explanations for what the Flores hominid is, and those three possibilities are that, you know, a dwarfed species descended from Homo erectus or an Australopithecine or a microcephalic modern human, he says that the most parsimonious diagnosis is the one that requires the fewest assumptions — would be microcephaly.

Derrickson also skillfully provides an explanation for why Klaatu would be a bipedal hominid (an unlikely product of independent evolution on another planet)-- genetic engineering of placental tissue surrounding his original alien body, with embryological development sped up hundreds of times to transform him into a being recognizably human.

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

But this should not deter you, for there are plenty more accessible contributions such as those by Coppens («Brain, locomotion, diet, and culture: how a primate, by chance, became a man»), Phillip Tobias on «The brain of the first hominid» and Rebecca Cann's chapter «Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution», which as a relative novice, I found very helpful.

The laboratory techniques for dating almost anything by radioactive decay, whether a hominid fossil or a coral horn, are very similar.

Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.

This bar graph shows reported chipping rates for teeth from some living primates and fossil hominids.

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

We owe our long - lost hominid relatives for various traits, and especially those related to our immune systems and skin, the evidence shows.

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.