Sentences with phrase «hominid fossils»

An array of hominid fossils from a South African cave shows many body parts of the newly identified species Homo naledi.

Berger found the bones of a male child aged 9 to 13 years and of an adult female in a previously unknown cave in the Malapa cave system, an area with 13 previous hominid fossil finds.

What would happen if tomorrow, scientists were to rediscover the entire hominid fossil record, without any preconceptions inherited from the last century?

Most significantly, CT scans can liberate hominid fossils from museum drawers.

The country has proved to be one of the richest sources of hominid fossils in the world, producing nearly half of all such fossils discovered worldwide in the past three decades.

The cave is in an area dubbed the Cradle of Humankind because so many hominid fossils have been found there.

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.

Like Pygmy CHIMP, Adrienne L. Zihlman, U.C. Santa Cruze, «Zihlman compares the pygmy chimpanzee to «Lucy,» one of the oldest hominid fossils known, and finds the similarities striking.

Most hominid fossils are in much worse shape than the skull of Homo floresiensis.

Curiously, as a debating tactic to discredit other hominid fossils, creationists often accept 1470 as human, even though many of them reject larger - brained erectus specimens as apes.

I became fascinated with human variation; ancient hominid fossils; and the behavior of our closest living relatives, the great apes, and ended up earning a degree in anthropology.

The first hominid expansion from Africa came about 2 million years ago, as revealed by stone tools and an outstanding collection of hominid fossils at the site of Dmanisi in Georgia.

Once a research team makes a scan, they can post the data on a Web site for other researchers to analyze, bringing a precious hominid fossil to new sets of eyes and new sets of questions.

Ongoing excavations at Dmanisi, a site in the Republic of Georgia, have yielded scores of early hominid fossils, including five skulls and, most recently, a complete male pelvis found in 2014.

In the tradition of giving notable hominid fossils familiar names, LB1 was nicknamed Flo.

These 4.4 million year old hominid fossils sit within a critical early part of human evolution, and cast new and sometimes surprising light on the evolution of human limbs and locomotion, the habitats occupied by early hominids, and the nature of our last common ancestor with chimps.

Afar, Ethiopia The Afar region, a low - lying spot in northern Ethiopia, is home to two important anthropological discoveries: the famous hominid fossil Lucy and the world's oldest stone tools.

Thousands of hominid fossils up to 800,000 years old had been previously found there, including some bearing cut marks indicative of cannibalism.

LASTING FAME The Old Man of La Chapelle, a Neandertal skeleton discovered in the early 20th century, is among the fossils highlighted in a new book about how hominid fossils achieve worldwide fame.

H. naledi probably made some of the many stone tools found at southern African sites dating to around 300,000 years ago that have not yielded hominid fossils, he adds.

NEANDERTALS ARE US Newly recovered DNA suggests that hominid fossils previously found in a Spanish cave come from Neandertals who lived around 430,000 years ago.

Pääbo hopes that such a connection will come through sequencing DNA from other Asian hominid fossils.

Yet paleoanthropologists have found numerous hominid fossils to bridge the evolutionary progression from that unknown common ancestor to modern humans.

If you suddenly find yourself in the company of paleoanthropologists or swamped by news of the latest hominid fossil find, there's a good chance you'll hear the phrase last common ancestor (LCA).

«This is one of the most revealing hominid fossils that I could have imagined,» he says.

A fossil ape that had been found in India also encouraged him to believe that Asia would be a good place to look for hominid fossils.

Researchers who are interested in knowing the age of particular hominid fossils andor artifacts have options.

'' [Adrienne] Zihlman compares the pygmy chimpanzee to «Lucy,» one of the oldest hominid fossils known and finds the similarities striking.

Deocampo recently came upon something very similar near Olduvai Gorge, where some of the oldest hominid fossils have been found.

For example, Tarver says, beyond the extant catarrhine species, there is only one known fossil of a chimpanzee species and no gorilla fossils, so more of those might be of greater value for understanding primate evolution than smaller additions to the large body of hominid fossils.

Show me the modern textbooks that present «Nebraska Man» as a hominid fossil, show me or admit once and for all that you creationists often simply lie to try to support your point of view.

We shared a similar ancestor with the great apes at some point in our evolutionary past, and we have a beautiful set of hominin and hominid fossils to show morphological transitions going back several million years.

It's unclear whether Homo sapiens or a closely related species made Olorgesailie's Middle Stone Age tools, since no hominid fossils have been found there.

No hominid fossils have turned up among the mastodon remains.

All the hominid fossils found so far have been between two layers of volcanic rock from regional eruptions conclusively dated between 1.76 million and 1.85 million years ago.

The laboratory techniques for dating almost anything by radioactive decay, whether a hominid fossil or a coral horn, are very similar.

«I felt it was the first time in history to bring the entire world into a place where we discovered a hominid fossil.»

Archaeological Field Methods By Michael Pante Cultural Biases Reflected in the Hominid Fossil Record By Joshua Barbach and Craig Byron

Still, one can get a good idea of the quality of the book from the following table which summarizes his conclusions about the hominid fossil record:

The fossil skull found, nicknamed Toumai is as old as any hominid fossil found to date, yet its features appear much more human - like than those of other contenders for title of human ancestor.

It has one of the richest concentrations of hominid fossils that provide evidence of human evolution over the last 3.5 million years.