Sentences with phrase «hominid lived»

This chimpanzee - sized hominid lived 6 million years ago in the Tugen Hills of Kenya, where it spent time both in the trees and on the ground.

But australopithecines, such as the famous Lucy, lived in Africa between 1.4 and 4.5 million years ago, whereas the Liang Bua hominid lived...

These early hominids lived some 1.8 million...

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One origin occurred 400,000 years ago, when our hominid ancestors living in East Africa split up.

Casting off the confines of the silliness of belief is what will finally free up humankind to some measure of greatness, provided of course believers don't succeed in squashing education in favor of myth, or blowing up the planet in the name of some angry invisible hominid who apparently lives in the sky.

Once one accepts the enrichment beyond the merely material of the context within which human life is lived, one is no longer restricted to the notion of Darwinian survival necessity as providing the sole engine driving hominid development.

Ah, so we should all eat tiger nuts and fruits and invertebrates because of this one study, and about hominids who lived 2.4 million years ago.

She is the author of Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa 1993, and the co-editor of Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives (1995), which includes her chapters «Beauty and the Breast: The Cultural Context of Breastfeeding in the United States,» and «A Time to Wean: The Hominid Blueprint for a Natural Age of Weaning in Modern Human Populations.»

Ardi, he says, was a 120 - centimetre - tall female who lived about a million years before Lucy — the famous hominid found in Ethiopia in 1974 — roamed the planet.

The supposed ancient butchers in question were members of the same species as the famed fossil Lucy: Australopithecus afarensis, a hominid that lived in Ethiopia's Afar region between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago.

That link only appeared once hominids began to live alongside large mammals.

A suite of animals that evolved in Eurasia, Australia and the Americas without the risk of predation from tool - using, fire - making, group - living hominids were suddenly faced with a new threat.

We're drawn to the idea that we are the end point, the pinnacle not only of the hominids but of all animal life.

The two species of chimpanzee and the one living hominid — Homo sapiens — are the only three mammalian species to make eye contact while nursing; bonobo chimps and humans are the only two species to make eye contact during sexual intercourse.

They studied genetic data from 1,983 living individuals across Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas and concluded that Neanderthals or another ancient hominid group must have interbred with our ancestors at least once, in the eastern Mediterranean, soon after humans migrated out of Africa.

Rather, they were a much more primitive hominid population, possibly Homo habilis, whose members lived in, or at least transited, Dmanisi much earlier than what our accepted chronology of human evolution indicates.

What biomechanics and paleontology studies can not reveal is why these transitional hominid types forsook life among the boughs to become earthbound marathon runners.

Our anatomy suggests that running down prey was once a way of life that ensured hominid survival millions of years ago on the African savanna.

If he is right, our hominid ancestors lived in Europe and only later migrated to Africa, where modern humans evolved.

Better known as the hobbit, H. floresiensis was a diminutive hominid that lived roughly 500 kilometers south of Sulawesi on the island of Flores at around the same time the Sulawesi tools were made.

A note reminds us that between 3.5 and 1.5 million years ago, at least 11 different hominid species lived in Africa — many of them (like our notorious strolling couple) members of the genus Australopithecus, which went extinct about 1.4 million years ago.

Right now, humans are the only hominid species on Earth, but it seems unlikely to remain the case, notes Juan Enriquez, CEO of Biotechnomy, a life - sciences investment firm, and a founding director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business Schlife - sciences investment firm, and a founding director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business SchLife Sciences Project at Harvard Business School.

Homo ergaster («working man») is an extinct hominid species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which lived throughout eastern and southern Africa between 1.9 to 1.4 million years ago with the advent of the lower Pleistocene and the cooling of the global climate.

This bar graph shows reported chipping rates for teeth from some living primates and fossil hominids.

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

Around 2 million years ago, only about one in 10 Australopithecines — the modest - brained hominids exemplified by the famous fossil Lucy — who made it to adulthood lived to twice the age of sexual maturity.

Unlike other hominids and living apes, Ardi's upper pelvis is positioned behind the lower pelvis, enabling a straight - legged gait, Pontzer and his colleagues find.

When Whitcome's team compared the spines of one male and one female Australopithecus africanus, an early bipedal hominid that lived roughly 2 million years ago, it found differences in the number of wedged vertebrae.

The general shape of that part of the frontal brain in humans differs greatly from that of living apes and fossil hominids dating to at least 700,000 to 1 million years years ago, Hurst added.

Tooth characteristics of a chimpanzee - sized primate that once lived in southeastern Europe suggest that the primate, known as Graecopithecus, may have been a hominid, not an ape as many researchers assume.

«Our provisional family tree shows typically several hominids were living at the same time,» says paleoanthropologist and best - selling author Ian Tattersall.

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.

The hybrid of familiar face and tiny brain means Toumaï probably lived just after the time when chimps and hominids were going their separate ways.

The site may give us the first glimpse of how our predecessors lived — it's the only place where early hominids have surfaced in a group.

To learn more about the evolution of the «power squeeze» — the grip we use to hold a hammer — University of Kent anthropologist Matt Skinner compared hand and wrist bones from living and extinct hominids using 3 - D X-ray technology.

His team members contend that the skull's original owner — nicknamed Toumaï, which means «hope of life» in the local language — was a hominid, most likely a male.

Neandertal A hominid species (Homo neanderthalensis) that lived in Europe and parts of Asia from about 200,000 years ago to roughly 28,000 years ago.

And the big hominid tree of life going back all the way to Australopithecus is probably pretty accurate,» Bohlender says.

Neandertal (formerly spelled Neanderthal) This hominid species (Homo neanderthalensis) lived in Europe and parts of Asia from about 200,000 years ago to roughly 28,000 years ago.

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.

``... the fossil record reveals that the features possessed by the early hominids who lived in Europe, Asia and Africa, have exactly the same sort of range as those we see in modern people.»

Take the large - brained hominid bones belonging to a species called Homo heidelbergensis, which lived in Europe and Asia around 600,000 years ago.

Researchers previously found a partial jaw and tooth belonging to yet a third hominid that lived around Lucy's time.

According to a character in the book,» [B] asajauns are real creatures, hominids about two and a half meters tall, with broad shoulders, long hair on their heads, and thick hair all over their bodies... They live in the woods and are an intrinsic part of them, acting as protectors.

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Alien Hominid was released for Xbox Live Arcade last Wednesday.

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