Sentences with phrase «hominid fossils known»
'' [Adrienne] Zihlman compares the pygmy chimpanzee to «Lucy,» one of the oldest hominid fossils known and finds the similarities striking.
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The earliest known fossils of homo sapiens date from about 100,000 years ago, and paleontologists tell us that hominid species go back some 4.4 million years.
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.
This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.
Part by part, Bramble and Lieberman have reinterpreted the hominid physique by juxtaposing bits of fossil evidence with what's known about the physiology and biomechanics of jogging.
The basin has been home to important discoveries in human evolution, including many hominid fossils and the earliest known stone tools (SN: 6/13/15, p. 6).
«I'd really like to know,» she says, «when did fossil hominids get fat?»
Ardi's hip arrangement doesn't appear in two later fossil hominids, including the famous partial skeleton known as Lucy, a 3.2 - million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis.
New age estimates for previously discovered fossils position Graecopithecus as potentially the earliest known hominid, the investigators suggest.
The fossil's humanlike face and teeth and chimp - size cranium are so different from any other known hominid that Brunet and his team have denominated it a new species: Sahelanthropus tchadensis.
I know of no other creationist who has even tried to look at original fossil hominids: not Lubenow, not Bowden, certainly not Gish, all of whom snipe away from a position of profound ignorance.