Sentences with phrase «fragmentary remains»

Early hominin stature reconstructions are notoriously difficult to assess: the limited number of intact long bones available in the fossil record often requires reconstruction of the long bone length from fragmentary remains, before different methods can be used to estimate the stature; the eventual results can differ according to the method employed.

Fragmentary remains suggest that even bigger ichthyosaurs existed around that time.

«This means that everything that has been written about variation, function and the anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis from fragmentary remains must now be in doubt.»

In 1998, they identified the fragmentary remains as titanosaurs by their distinctive teeth.

That's the conclusion from an analysis of the fragmentary remains of an ancient leg bone unearthed on Canada's Ellesmere Island, which lies just west of northern Greenland.

Likely human relatives predating, Ardi — Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Orrorin tugensis, and Ardipithecus kadabba — are known only from fragmentary remains; all probably walked upright.

Coelacanths are believed to have arisen during the Devonian Period (about 419.2 ± 3.2 million years ago), however only five species of reconstructable Devonian coelacanths have previously been described, in addition to a number of very fragmentary remains.

Based on analyses of LB1 and some other, more fragmentary remains, the discovery team concluded that the specimens belonged to a previously unknown human species, Homo floresiensis, that lived as recently as 12,000 years ago [see «The Littlest Human,» by Kate Wong; Scientific American, February 2005].

In late 2016, team members described five new species of tetrapod and identified fragmentary remains of at least seven more, all from the Romer's Gap era.

The team proposed that LB1 and the other fragmentary remains they recovered represent a previously unknown human species, Homo floresiensis.

Not exact matches

«As lots of new fossil species are named every year, in some cases, such as with fragmentary or limited remains, the decision to name a new species should be considered very carefully.»

In fresh excavations, they found stone tools and more fragmentary hominin remains, including pieces from an adult skull.

Many anthropologists have argued that A. africanus couldn't be our direct ancestor largely because of timing: The earliest known members of the genus Homo — though their classification remains controversial and their fossils fragmentary — turn up in East Africa soon after A. africanus appears in South Africa.

Unlike with protein kinases, the current knowledge of protein phosphatase functions and especially on their formed interactions and complexes remains fragmentary.

It has even allowed us to identify new fossil hominin species, sometimes from just fragmentary tooth remains, and to reconstruct which species is more closely related to whom.

The lead author of this article was the principal scientist developing new techniques with the fragmentary DNA remaining in that small bone.

«Climate models show that ice - sheet melt will dominate sea - level rise over the coming centuries, but our understanding of ice - sheet variations before the last interglacial 125,000 years ago remains fragmentary.

As a result, reference gene collections remain incomplete - many gene models are fragmentary, and thousands more remain uncataloged, particularly for long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs).

Phillipps: A most recent example of that would be some material that was found in the Republic of Georgia -LSB-...] where they recently found a fragmentary skullcap, skull remains, and other fragmentary limb bones.

Through processes of disassembly and reassembly, and through the creation of discordant visual tensions, these works ultimately reject any formal notions of resolution or the absolute, preferring instead to remain open, fragmentary, and possibly even unresolved.

After her large - scale sculpture, sound and light installation at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2014), at Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Israel, 2014) and currently at Petach Tikva Museum of Art (Israel, 2015), the last episode at Grimmuseum remains more abstract and fragmentary, dealing with the relatively domestic nature of the exhibition space, which allows Rodeh to shift from her monolithic large - scale works into more detailed object - based techniques and elements.

Seth Cluett «Inward Turning Histories» Year: 2015/2017 Duration: 22»27 In his text The Practice of Everyday Life, DeCerteau writes «Places are fragmentary and inward - turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of the body.