Sentences with phrase «hominid species»

Shortly afterward, the Neandertals were mostly gone and people like us were the only hominid species left on earth, even spreading into cold, arid places where the Neandertals never lived.

Going back to 100,000 years ago, at least three hominid species were around.

Thus, every human being belongs to only one hominid species, that is, Homo sapiens, which is a Latin word that means «wise man».

Walker and Leakey (1993) and Tobias (1987) have good overviews of attempts to estimate the relative intelligence of hominid species.

Added a page listing type specimens for hominid species.

It has not been shown to be significantly different from erectus to require the designation of a new hominid species, and it has not been shown to be closer to modern humans morphologically as has been claimed by some.

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

Whatever they were, they are irrelevant - they were never accepted or even named as hominid species, and sank without a trace.

Goodman claims each hominid species has a discrete cranial range that does not overlap with the range of the species supposed to succeed it.

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.

The researchers found that, although the hybridization between the two hominid species likely took place, the Neanderthals continued to uphold their own cultural traditions.

The Neanderthals and Denisovans are hominid species that migrated out of Africa about 300,000 years ago and settled in Europe and some parts of Western Asia.

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center statistical geneticist Ryan Bohlender said that the hominid species is not likely Neanderthal or Denisovan but one that belongs to a third but related branch of family tree that produced the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, an extinct distant relative of Neanderthals known only from DNA collected from a finger bone and teeth that were discovered in a Siberian cave.

As a next endeavor, the team also seeks to investigate whether another hominid species, called Denisovans, contribute to gene expression.

The recent discovery of a fascinating new hominid species in the central African country of Chad rocks the foundation of the human family tree as we know it.

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.

«Next we would like to access and evaluate genomic information about other hominid species, Neandertals in particular, as they represent probably our closest prehistoric relative,» Rubin comments.

For years, scientists pondering which hominid species were capable of making tools have relied on a simple test based on anatomical traits in the human thumb.

But the answer may not be as simple as one or the other: «I think that both other hominid species and our own likely have several different ways to conceptualize space, which co-exist,» notes psychologist Nora Newcombe of Temple University.

This very limited diet made this hominid species vulnerable and may well have contributed to their becoming extinct, anthropologists reasoned.

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.

Maybe our direct ancestors and Neanderthals largely coexisted (as did many other overlapping hominid species before them), with occasional bouts of quasi-tribal warfare that ebbed and flowed.

Homo erectus, a long - extinct hominid species, may have enjoyed peaches much like those we eat today.

Yet for at least four million years many hominid species shared the planet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Berger thinks Karabo and an adult female found nearby represent a new hominid species, Australopithecus sediba, that may have been the first to walk upright the way modern humans do.

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

A member of the now - extinct hominid species Homo erectus engraved a geometric design on a sea shell nearly half a million years ago, long before the earliest evidence of comparable etchings made by modern humans, researchers say.

Given the recent discovery in Flores of a dwarf hominid species related to Homo erectus, it is possible that H. erectus made it to more places than we have evidence for.

Here, at this important crossroads, it's thought that they encountered and had sexual rendezvous with a different hominid species: the Neanderthals.

The earliest known fossils of homo sapiens date from about 100,000 years ago, and paleontologists tell us that hominid species go back some 4.4 million years.

Denisovans are related to the more famous hominids species, the Neanderthals.

Not exact matches

Maybe those 20 to 30 % of people who do lucid dream are at the forefront of hominid evolution, and they are going to be the next species of preference.

We can see by looking at other primates and studying their genetics and history, as well as those of previous species of hominids, that we have common traits.

For a $ 199 check and mouth swab sent to the National Geographic's Genographic Project you can find out if your relatives co-mingled with these extinct species of hominids.

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

Indeed, language may be THE most important ingredient in why and how we changed from just another band of hominids on the African grasslands to a truly global species that has dominated the environment, for good and ill, like no other species in history.

This evolution, increasing in divergence and complexity, continued to the hominids and the species homo sapiens.

Example: Cro - Magnons and Neanderthals were not 2 points in an evolutionary line, but rather two separate species of upright - walking hominids; they coexisted, but one was smarter and more dominant, and the other died off.

It is indifferent and always has been and will continue as the indomitable force that has created and destroyed more species than we can comprehend before the first reasoning hominids could ask «What am I?»

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.

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 species is probably not Neandertal or Denisovan, but a different, related hominid group, said Bohlender, a statistical geneticist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

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.

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.

It's unclear whether Homo sapiens or a closely related species made Olorgesailie's Middle Stone Age tools, since no hominid fossils have been found there.

«In the 1990s, on the family tree of hominids, we had maybe 12 species.