Sentences with phrase «hominid cousins»

Most scientists have come down on the side that any romances between these hominid cousins must have been fleeting at best.

We diverged from our hominid cousins as long as 400,000 years ago, and by 30,000 years ago they were gone, leaving the particulars of any intertwined history seemingly lost forever.

There seemed to be two periods of interbreeding between modern and ancient humans (such as Neanderthals, perhaps Denisovans, and other large - brained hominid cousins).

Last Hominid Standing In Ian Tattersall's MASTERS OF THE PLANET and Chris Stringer's LONE SURVIVORS, both out in March, two leading researchers of human evolution and anthropology offer different perspectives on how Homo sapiens outlasted his hominid cousins to rule the earth.

In the time line of mammalian extinctions, large animals started to disappear only after humans or their hominid cousins showed up.

Not exact matches

Dear Mr. Dr. Professor Rabbit, I was disturbed to learn of this apparent increase in certain Hominids imitating the decidedly self - defeating behavior of our distant cousins the Lemminids, as documented here.

This brings up the curious question of why such Hominids should be less astute, shall we say, than than our rodent cousins in terms of their adaptive behavior, a topic which even the former Mr. Dr. Professor Gould does not seem to address in his opus as far as we have been able to ascertain in our book club readings.