Sentences with word «gracile»

«KNM - ER 1470, like other early Homo specimens, shows many morphological characteristics in common with gracile australopithecines that are not shared with later specimens of the genus Homo» (Cronin et al. 1981)

«The second reason is that modern humans, when compared to Neanderthals, present a more gracile phenotype that resembles the one seen in domesticates when compared to their wild - type cousins,» added the expert.

KNM - ER 1470, like other early Homo specimens, shows many morphological characteristics in common with gracile australopithecines that are not shared with later specimens of the genus Homo (Table 1); in fact, Walker has classified ER 1470 as australopithecine.»

Unlike the East African discoveries, all the southern gracile australopithecines were found in caves, but these hominids were probably not cave - dwellers.

Potential pandemic influenza strain H7N9's gracile structure is captured in a negatively stained transmission electron migrograph (TEM).

Although Lucy lived around 3 million years ago, making her a contemporary of the earliest of the southern African gracile australopithecines, the A. afarensis group lived at least 4 million years ago.

Domesticated animals also have more gracile builds, smaller teeth, flatter faces, a more striking range of coloration and hair types — and, in many breeds, floppy ears and curly tails.

The Rio Branco, meanwhile, served as a stopping point for six different kinds of monkeys, limiting the distribution of uakari monkeys, titi monkeys and gracile capuchin monkeys to the west, and saki monkeys, large tamarins and robust capuchins to the east — and confirming Wallace's hypothesis.

The modern human lineage is believed to have evolved from a line of gracile, or lightly built, australopithecines that goes back some 4 million years.

Their apparent invisibility, gracile bodies and delicate wings with long fringes resembling the mythical fairies have earned them their common name.

Except for having small rather than large teeth, and a quadrupedal rather than a bipedal pelvis, pygmy chimpanzees are remarkably like early gracile australopithecines in their skeletal dimensions.

C3 / C4, junction of the third and fourth cervical vertebrae; DLF, dorsolateral funiculus; Cf, cuneate fasciculus; Gf, gracile fasciculus; GM, gray matter.

Anatomical abbreviations: Gr = Gracile tract, Cu = Cuneate tract, dCST = dorsal cortico spinal tract, vCST = ventral cortico spinal tract, dc = decussation of the CST, pd = pyramid, pt = pyramidal tract or CST traversing pons and medulla, bp = basilar pons, NST nucleus of the solitary tract.

The widely distributed Australian fossils include an extremely robust individual, Willandra Lakes hominid 50, which is so «primitive» that Thorne says, ``... this skull is so robust it makes the Kow Swamp ones look gracile!

«An approach to the taxonomy of the Hominidae: Gracile Villafranchian hominids of Africa.»

The robust Neanderthal ice - age hunters were no match for fast and nimble gracile modern humans.

Indeed, and perhaps because Gadot, a former Miss Israel, is so startlingly lovely and gracile, she's extremely feminine, cooing over babies, shedding tears over starving children and wounded young soldiers.

The study found body size to be highly variable during earlier hominin history, with a range of differently shaped species: from broad, gorilla - like Paranthropus to the more wiry or «gracile» Australopithecus afarensis.

The study, published in the science journal PLOS ONE, compared the genomes of modern humans to those of several domesticated species and their wild animal type, in order to look for overlapping genes that were associated with domestication traits, such as docility or a gracile physiognomy.

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A. africanus is closely related to Lucy and her kin (Australopithecus afarensis), the gracile hominids found in the East African Rift Valley at Hadar, at Laetoli in Tanzania and elsewhere.

«They are gracile.

In this habitat lived a lightly built or «gracile» australopithecine called Australo - pithecus africanus.

The braincase is far more rounded and gracile than that of any ape, and the brain has a human rather than an apelike pattern (Tobias 1987).

This period also witnessed the most dramatic increases in hominin brain size; early representatives of the Homo erectus sensu lato (Homo erectus and H. ergaster) in Africa had a brain that was > 80 % larger than the gracile australopithecine Australopithecus afarensis and ∼ 40 % larger than Homo (Australopithecus) habilis (Figure 1).

Lacking, bony crests for heavy chewing muscles, the Gracile Australopithecines can be recognized by smaller cheek teeth that emphasize the anterior dentition.

Indeed evolution authorities Cherfas and Gribbin believe that a strong case can be made that the gracile forms are little more than varieties of extinct pygmy chimpanzees, while the robust forms are varieties of gorillas.7