Sentences with phrase «hominid population»

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.

Still, factors other than climate fluctuations, such as hominid population declines or surges, may also have spurred ancient tool innovations to acquire more or different types of food, cautions archaeologist Yonatan Sahle of the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Obsidian used for the Middle Stone Age tools came from far away, raising the likelihood of long - distance contacts and trading among hominid populations near humankind's root.

Stone Age hominid populations may have reached «what now seems to be a not - so - new New World,» Hovers writes.

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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.»

In Asia and Europe they would encounter populations of hominid species from earlier migrations that had evolved their own differences.

By 35,000 years ago, H. sapiens appears to have had the planet to itself, with the possible exception of an isolated population of H. floresiensis — the «hobbit» people of Southeast Asia — and another newly discovered hominid species in China.

This find raises surprising questions about relationships among far - flung populations of ancient hominids.

Many researchers over the years have wondered why these brainy individuals then went extinct, but because Neanderthal DNA remains in current populations, these hominids were probably just absorbed into what is now known as Homo sapiens.

While questions related to the when and where of humanity's origins remain hotly debated, one matter about our collective genetic makeup is clearer: All humans appear to be hominid hybrids, made up of DNA from different and distinct populations.

6:26 p.m. Postscript I have to note a broader point relating the clash of hominids at the heart of this movie to the Medea hypothesis of the paleontologist Peter Ward, which Ward explored in the context of human population growth in an interesting interview with Scott Thill for AlterNet.