Sentences with phrase «hominid discovered»

In 2005 a virtual brain of the one known skull of Homo floresiensis — the three - foot - tall hominid discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores — provided evidence in the ongoing debate about whether the creature represents a separate species or was a human pygmy with a birth defect.

In the international sporting scene, such a moment is the equivalent of the hominids discovering weapons in the prologue to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but the Stone Age tribe has all but forgotten how to play when the timeline catches up to them.

Not exact matches

Gibbons focuses on the people who hunt and find fossils like the 3.5 - million - year - old australopithecine Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, and the hominid skull Toumaï, which was found in Chad in 2001 and dates from 6 million to 7 million years old — close to the time when our lineage split from that of chimpanzees.

They are discovering signs of healed wounds, of toothless old hominids who must have been cared for by others.

By 35,000 years ago, H. sapiens appears to have had the planet to itself, with the possible exception of an isolated population of H. floresiensis — the «hobbit» people of Southeast Asia — and another newly discovered hominid species in China.

Working on the joint Australian - Indonesian team that discovered Flores Man, Brown concluded that the brain shape, long arms, and chinless jaw indicate descent from an early hominid.

A team led by Haile - Selassie discovered remains of a 5.8 - million - to 5.6 - million - year - old East African hominid, Ardipithecus kadabba (SN: 3/6/04, p. 148).

New age estimates for previously discovered fossils position Graecopithecus as potentially the earliest known hominid, the investigators suggest.

And although she was among the oldest hominids known when she was discovered, there are now putative human ancestors dating back as far as seven million years ago.

First discovered on the island of Java in 1891, and later unearthed in China, Kenya, Ethiopia, and the Republic of Georgia, Homo erectus («upright man») was the first hominid to migrate out of Africa.

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.

The fossil remains of a 3.2 million years old hominid skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia (November 24th).

On July 17, 1959, British paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovered a skull from an ancient hominid species, Paranthropus boisei, or «southern ape.»

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.

If Clarke's expectations of further finds are borne out, Little Foot could become the most spectacular and important hominid fossil ever discovered, rivalled only by the Turkana Boy Homo erectus skeleton.