Sentences with phrase «hominid ancestors»

The cool temperatures of the Quaternary may have allowed our brains to become much larger than those of our of hominid ancestors.

Our small hominid ancestors probably faced the same kinds of threats that baboons do today from leopards, eagles, and other predators.

Thus, it may well be that our early hominid ancestors toted their babies around, too, rather than letting them crawl.

In Related News Archaeologists in Kenya found Homo erectus made sophisticated stone tools 360,000 years earlier than we thought: Precocious hominid ancestors were tool whizzes 1.76 million years ago.

From our very first mother — infant bond, we experience relationships in this same, still mysterious, primarily physical way as did our primitive hominid ancestors.

One origin occurred 400,000 years ago, when our hominid ancestors living in East Africa split up.

Grilling has been around as long as mankind has had hunting and fire, and there's really no need to speculate which one of our hominid ancestors figured out that grilled meat tasted better than raw meat, but obviously someone did.

He suggests that studying these birds may shed light on the mental transformation of our hominid ancestors as they went from idle rock bashing to purposeful sculpting of tools.

Scientists have long suspected that humans evolved large brains because our hominid ancestors had to outwit and elude predators, learn to use fire, and develop complex social structures.

Yet 99 percent of all species that ever lived have gone extinct, including every one of our hominid ancestors.

Seen from Earth — and our hominid ancestors would very likely have seen it — that stellar catastrophe would have been as bright as the full moon.

If he is right, our hominid ancestors lived in Europe and only later migrated to Africa, where modern humans evolved.

And this increase in plasticity may very well be one of the defining features that propelled our hominid ancestors past other primates in terms of intelligence, says GWU anthropologist Aida Gómez - Robles, the study's lead author.

The scientists also point out that this pattern of delayed development appears to have increased over evolutionary time, with our hominid ancestors presumably slowly gaining larger, more plastic brains relative to modern chimpanzees.

Our hominid ancestors lost the need for a tail before they began walking upright.

The sequencing of the human genome (ScienceNOW, 14 April 2003:) gave scientists major new insights into what makes us human: Although we share more than 98 % of our genetic code with the chimpanzee, natural selection has turned us into a very different animal than the chimps, from whom our hominid ancestors split evolutionarily some 6 million years ago (ScienceNOW, 31 August).

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The powerful forces of plate tectonics and climate variability ultimately led to our hominid ancestors» development and their dispersal from Africa, to the Caucasus, the Fertile Crescent, and ultimately the rest of the world.

That previous warmings did occur is not in doubt and that basic fact caused humankind and our hominid ancestors to lose much of their body - hair.

Your human and hominid ancestors had a natural low carb diet.

If the prior ice ages turn out to be anything like this last one — and all suggestions so far point that way, with evidence for the Heinrich events already back to 0.8 and 1.1 million years — then our hominid ancestors suffered through hundreds of these dramatic events.