Sentences with phrase «hominid lineage»

While only the animal's face, jaw and teeth survive, their shape places it within the African hominid lineage that gave rise to gorillas, chimps and humans.

Only the animal's face, jaw and teeth survive, and their shape places it within the African hominid lineage that gave rise to gorillas, chimps and humans.

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Within the last three to five million years, after human and other ape lineages diverged from the hominid stem - line, the human line produced a variety of human species.

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.

«Many of these hominids may have been part of some widely distributed group of early humans that were not separate lineages,» he says.

The smart birds seem to have evolved this flexible cognitive ability independently from hominids as the two lineages diverged about 320 million years ago

It's also the first sign of such behavior in hominids preceding the Homo lineage, say anthropologist Shannon McPherron of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and his colleagues.

«It may be that these fossils that we're finding now, these hominids, had descendants that became extinct,» says Clarke, «and that we haven't yet found the direct lineage of our ancestry.»

This apelike ancestor, which probably lived 5 to 11 million years ago in Africa, gave rise to two distinct lineages, one resulting in hominids — humanlike species — and the other resulting in the great ape species living today.

We therefore suggest that FOXI3 may generally be involved in dental (cusp) development within and across mammalian lineages including the hominids which are known to exhibit marked variability in the presence of lingual cusps.