Sentences with phrase «hominins australopiths»

Not exact matches

Tiny middle ear bones belonging to two of our australopith forebears reveal that the hominins lacked our sensitivity to speech frequencies

The result is stunning: Among australopiths, the hominins immediately ancestral to our own genus Homo, Little Foot is by far the most complete specimen ever found.

«One of our major results is that we found no evidence that the earliest members of our genus differed in body mass from earlier australopiths (some of the earliest species of hominins),» said Dr. Grabowski, who is also a Fulbright scholar at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo.

Produced using cutting - edge methodology and the largest sample of individual early hominin fossils available, analysis of their results shows that early hominins were generally smaller than previously thought and that the increase in body size occurred not between australopiths and the origins of Homo but later with H. erectus (the first species widely found outside of Africa).

The small proportion of demonstrably non-local large hominin individuals could indicate that male australopiths had relatively small home ranges...»