Sentences with phrase «hominid remains»

It belonged to an adult male of the species Homo erectus, a.k.a. «Upright Man» and is called «Skull 5» because it was the fifth set of hominid remains recovered at the archeological site, Dmanisi, located in the Caucausus of the Republic of Georgia.

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

Almost a million years older than any hominid remains found in Europe, they are forcing scholars to rethink not only what constitutes an early human but how those early humans left Africa and peopled the globe.

When paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged of the Max Planck Institute in Germany first saw what appeared to be tiny hominid remains encased in 3.3 - million - year - old sandstone in northern Ethiopia — just miles from where the famous Lucy skeleton was found 32 years earlier — he knew he had found something special.

We now have hominid remains dating as far back as 5.7 million years and as recently as 80,000 years.

By 1905, Krapina had yielded more hominid remains than any other site known at the time.

Not exact matches

Last week, the remains of Ardi — a 4.4 - million - year - old hominid — were finally revealed to the world.

No hominid fossils have turned up among the mastodon remains.

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 School.

These hominids, whose remains date to between about 100,000 and 60,000 years ago (SN: 4/30/16, p. 7), had chimp - sized brains, short statures and, like H. naledi, some skull features resembling early Homo species.

A team led by Haile - Selassie discovered remains of a 5.8 - million - to 5.6 - million - year - old East African hominid, Ardipithecus kadabba (SN: 3/6/04, p. 148).

Most of the senior members of the Chorora research team also belong to the Middle Awash project team that has recovered the fossil remains of at least eight hominid species, including some of the earliest hominids, spanning nearly 6 million years.

Anthropologists concluded that they had stumbled upon the remains of some ancient hominid kitchen and that the Taung child had perhaps fallen prey to one of its own kind, a carnivorous beast, a shell - cracking and bone - breaking ape.

The abstract of this paper reads: The site of Dmanisi, Georgia, has yielded an impressive sample of hominid cranial and postcranial remains, documenting the presence of Homo outside Africa around 1.8 million years ago.

The fossil remains of a 3.2 million years old hominid skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia (November 24th).

According to one prevailing but contentious theory, the hobbits descended from the larger Homo erectus, the first hominid to have modern human proportions, whose remains can be found on the nearby Indonesian island of Java.

The study describes the recently unearthed remains of a hominid from what is now Serbia.

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.

Remains of the new hominid were recovered in November 2013 and March 2014.

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.

Hominid Cranial Remains.

Dan Paladin's unique art style remains, but Castle Crashers is a much bigger and more ambitious game than Alien Hominid.

The Cradle of Humankind Site comprises a strip of a dozen dolomitic limestone caves containing the fossilised remains of ancient forms of animals, plants and most importantly, hominids.

39 Leo Gabunia, Abesalom Vekua, David Lordkipanidze, Carl C. Swisher III, Reid Ferring, Antje Justus, Medea Nioradze, Merab Tvalchrelidze, Susan C. Antón, Gerhard Bosinski, Olaf Jöris, Marie A.de Lumley, Givi Majsuradze, Aleksander Mouskhelishvili, «Earliest Pleistocene hominid cranial remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: Taxonomy, geological setting, and age,» Science 288:1019 - 1025 (12 May 2000).