Sentences with phrase «fossilized human skull»

Not exact matches

To glean insights into how bones grow — and thus to better interpret fossilized human jaws and skulls — the student wanted to see whether the repeated impact of running would spur a thickening of the pig's skull.

Rummaging through a collection of replicas of fossilized primate bones in a nearby lab, Bramble pointed out that the nuchal ligament leaves a trace — a delicate ridge — where it attaches at the base of the human skull.

The belief was so ingrained that paleoanthropologists and others investigating human evolution figured that if they saw molar eruption in the fossilized skull of a young human ancestor, they'd assume they knew the age and feeding behavior.

Fragments of fossilized jaw, skull, and tooth, unearthed shortly before World War I from gravel beds, 45 miles south of London, were not, as had been believed, the remains of an aberrant part - human, part - ape «missing link».

The study was based upon casts and computer reconstructions of the one hobbit fossil skull available (brains do not fossilize) compared to nine microcephalic brains and ten normal human brains.