Sentences with phrase «hominid bones»

Take the large - brained hominid bones belonging to a species called Homo heidelbergensis, which lived in Europe and Asia around 600,000 years ago.

And even Leakey quickly abandoned the idea, because less than a year and a half later he discovered other hominid bones (OH 7, now allocated to Homo habilis) below OH 5.

Famed paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey thought tools made the man, and so when he uncovered hominid bones near stone tools in Tanzania in the 1960s, he labeled the putative toolmaker Homo habilis, the earliest member of the human genus.

Begun was looking for ancient hominid bones when he spotted the teeth trapped beneath a rhino's shoulder blade.

It's a fossilized hominid bone!

Not exact matches

If bones are cooked enough to be chewable I mentally regress to an earlier form of hominid and lose most of my table manners.

Perhaps hominids used these stones to break bones, but the new study doesn't rule out other possibilities, such as trampling by animals at locations where the bones may have originated, he says.

THE odd leg bones and prominent brow ridges of a fossil hominid found in Belgium in 1830 clearly belong to an ancient relative of Homo sapiens.

To establish the fossil's identity, the researchers compared a 3 - D image of the ancient finger bone with corresponding bones of present - day people, apes and monkeys, as well as Neandertals and other ancient hominids.

Hominids probably scavenged the mastodon's carcass, since its bones contain no stone tool incisions produced when an animal is butchered, they add.

When paleontologists study fossils through bone shape alone, they can only broadly infer the relationship between two hominids, no matter how many fossils they collect.

From the shape of one nearly complete foot bone, the discoverers conclude that their specimen walked upright, a hallmark of all hominids.

The find comes hot on the heels of the report of 6 - million - year - old bones found in Kenya's Tugen Hills, also hailed by their discoverers as belonging to the earliest known hominid (ScienceNOW, 22 February).

Human ancestors began walking upright at least 6 million years ago, according to analysis of hominid leg and pelvic bones.

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

Citing the discovery in the 1990s of 1.7 - million - year - old bones in the Caucasus region of Georgia, archaeologists had proposed that the first hominid migrants from Africa established themselves in the Near East and then moved only slowly outward toward Asia and Europe.

Lovejoy, who led an initial investigation of Ardi's lower - body bones, has long contended that ancient hominids had a humanlike gait (SN: 7/17/10, p. 5).

Because of their fragility and size, bird bones have been rare or absent at most other eastern African fossil assemblages that included early hominids.

Anthropologists concluded that they had stumbled upon the remains of some ancient hominid kitchen and that the Taung child had perhaps fallen prey to one of its own kind, a carnivorous beast, a shell - cracking and bone - breaking ape.

11 We've been at this a long time: Charred bones and wood ash indicate that early hominids were tending the first intentional fires more than 400,000 years ago.

To learn more about the evolution of the «power squeeze» — the grip we use to hold a hammer — University of Kent anthropologist Matt Skinner compared hand and wrist bones from living and extinct hominids using 3 - D X-ray technology.

GENE BANK Scientists extracted the oldest known hominid DNA from this 400,000 - year - old leg bone excavated in a Spanish cave.

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center statistical geneticist Ryan Bohlender said that the hominid species is not likely Neanderthal or Denisovan but one that belongs to a third but related branch of family tree that produced the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, an extinct distant relative of Neanderthals known only from DNA collected from a finger bone and teeth that were discovered in a Siberian cave.