Sentences with phrase «hominids appeared»

Scientists suspect the first hominids appeared sometime between 8 million and 6 million years ago.

The 3.5 - million - year - old hominids appeared as models in an exhibit that had just opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; the replicas were based, in part, on fossilized footprints preserved in volcanic ash at Laetoli, Tanzania, which showed unequivocally that these creatures had walked upright.

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Rather, hominids appear to have originated and persisted within more closed, wooded habitats until the emergence of more ecologically aggressive Australopithecus.

Dubbed Homo floresiensis, the hominid appears to have walked upright and used tools and fire.

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

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.

Ardi's hip arrangement doesn't appear in two later fossil hominids, including the famous partial skeleton known as Lucy, a 3.2 - million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis.

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.

The scientists also point out that this pattern of delayed development appears to have increased over evolutionary time, with our hominid ancestors presumably slowly gaining larger, more plastic brains relative to modern chimpanzees.

It now appears that this hominid, dubbed Homo naledi, inhabited southern Africa close to 300,000 years ago, around the dawn of Homo sapiens.

A 790,000 - year - old hominid settlement in northern Israel, excavated by archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, appears to have been divided into distinct functional spaces, with a hearthside food preparation area and a spot dedicated to flint toolmaking.

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.

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.