Sentences with phrase «hominid skull»

Third, and perhaps most surprising, the skull is nearly twice as old as any other hominid skull ever uncovered.

Now paleoanthropologists can put a hominid skull in a computed - tomography, or CT, scanner and create a virtual skull that they can split apart any way they want.

In the autumn of 1913, two farmers were arguing about hominid skull fragments they had uncovered while digging a drainage ditch.

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.

Organizers of the São Paulo march couldn't get a permit from officials to march, so the event was set up as something of a science fair, featuring several tents with the names of famous Brazilian scientists, each one with a display of scientific research — for example, insect collections and casts of hominid skulls from the University of São Paulo.

In the bottom photo, Pedro da Glória, a bioanthropologist at the University of São Paulo, prepares a public display of hominid skulls.

One display case contains the casts of an array of hominid skulls: the robust, massive - jawed 1.6 - million - year - old Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans, South Africa; the flat - faced 1.7 - million - year - old Paranthropus boisei from East Turkana, Kenya; the tiny skull and fossilized brain of the 2.5 - million - year - old Taung child, or Australopithecus africanus, found at Sterkfontein, South Africa.

Most importantly, there are casts of around two dozen of the most important fossil hominid skulls (including Sts 5, OH 5, WT 17000, ER 1813, ER 1470, ER 3733, Java Man, Peking Man, Sangiran 17, Arago, La Chapelle - aux - Saints, the Neandertal skull, St. Cesaire, Kow Swamp), and full casts of the Lucy and Turkana Boy skeletons.

Not exact matches

Most hominid fossils are in much worse shape than the skull of Homo floresiensis.

In 2005 a virtual brain of the one known skull of Homo floresiensis — the three - foot - tall hominid discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores — provided evidence in the ongoing debate about whether the creature represents a separate species or was a human pygmy with a birth defect.

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

Then the scientists noticed the ridge in a pitted, yellowed skull of our 2 - million - year - old relative Homo erectus — but not in older hominids known as australopithecines, who walked the earth as far back as 4.4 million years ago.

Five skulls from the same time period, including the first complete adult skull of the early Pleistocene (far right), suggest that early hominids may have been a single Homo species.

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.

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

Second, the area where the skull was found was once forest, not the primordial wide - open savanna where hominids and their hallmark bipedalism were thought to have evolved.

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.

The fossil skull found, nicknamed Toumai is as old as any hominid fossil found to date, yet its features appear much more human - like than those of other contenders for title of human ancestor.

Because the face and teeth resembled those of later human ancestors, the scientists said that the fossils were those of a human - like, or hominid, species — even though the skull could hold only a chimp - sized brain.

On July 17, 1959, British paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovered a skull from an ancient hominid species, Paranthropus boisei, or «southern ape.»

The widely distributed Australian fossils include an extremely robust individual, Willandra Lakes hominid 50, which is so «primitive» that Thorne says, ``... this skull is so robust it makes the Kow Swamp ones look gracile!

The discovery of the Dmanisi skulls, particularly D2700, raises the possibility, suggested by Vekua and his colleagues, that the Dmanisi hominids might have evolved from habilis - like ancestors that had already left Africa.