Sentences with phrase «hominid history»

Tattersall said, «Paleoanthropologists are having a hard time letting go of the old idea that human evolution was a linear process, but fossils like this one from Dmanisi are making it ever clearer that hominid history has been one of diversity and evolutionary experimentation with the hominid potential.»

BLAST FROM THE PAST A new permanet gallery at London's Natural History Museum guides visitors through hominid history.

We show that both dark and light pigmentation alleles arose before the origin of modern humans and that both light and dark pigmented skin has continued to evolve throughout hominid history.

Not exact matches

We can see by looking at other primates and studying their genetics and history, as well as those of previous species of hominids, that we have common traits.

Indeed, language may be THE most important ingredient in why and how we changed from just another band of hominids on the African grasslands to a truly global species that has dominated the environment, for good and ill, like no other species in history.

The 3.5 - million - year - old hominids appeared as models in an exhibit that had just opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; the replicas were based, in part, on fossilized footprints preserved in volcanic ash at Laetoli, Tanzania, which showed unequivocally that these creatures had walked upright.

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.

Even among early hominids, the number of premolar roots varies enough to raise serious questions about whether Graecopithecus can be classified among them, says paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile - Selassie of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

The skulls from Georgia are not the only hominid remains rewriting our history.

Berger and his team say that the exhibit will be the largest display of original fossil hominid material in history.

Olduvai Gorge: a case history in the interpretation of hominid paleoenvironments in East Africa.