Sentences with phrase «for hominid fossils»
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.
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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.
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..
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.
The fossil record for hominids is clearly gradualistic, for example.
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.
A 12 - million - year - old fossil hominid from Spain provides the strongest evidence yet for this idea.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The laboratory techniques for dating almost anything by radioactive decay, whether a hominid fossil or a coral horn, are very similar.
This bar graph shows reported chipping rates for teeth from some living primates and fossil hominids.
No other fossil hominids from that long ago included a pelvis complete enough for analysis.
New age estimates for previously discovered fossils position Graecopithecus as potentially the earliest known hominid, the investigators suggest.
Armed with only jaw and tooth fossils, the investigators don't have a slam - dunk case for pegging Graecopithecus as a hominid.
Toumaï is not the only fossil vying for the title of earliest hominid.
The fossil skull found, nicknamed Toumai is as old as any hominid fossil found to date, yet its features appear much more human - like than those of other contenders for title of human ancestor.
The results are approximate, because they depend on which formula is used, and also on brain and body size, both of which are difficult to estimate for most fossil hominids.