Sentences with word «hominoids»
Thus he maintains that God breathed human immortal souls into a male and female pair of hominoids, when they had emerged with a sufficient level of consciousness.
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We are currently using this new paradigm to define the expression and function of other hominoid - and human - specific gene duplications during brain development and evolution.
For example, it is commonly believed that early hominoids developed overhand hanging and swinging locomotion in the trees due to an increase in body size, where they were too heavy to walk on top of the branches as most primates still do.
Hare, who directs Duke's Hominoid Psychology Research Group and the Duke Canine Cognition Center, studies the relationship between social behavior and cognition in animals.
Research interests: Catarrhine and hominoid evolution, systematics, geometric morphometrics
Extensive convergence between giant panda and hominoid vertebral formulae [abstract].
«We can safely conclude from the fossil hominoid material now available that in the history of the globe there have been many more species of great ape than just the three which exist today.»
We characterized pelvic shape using a set of 23 3D landmarks in living hominoids: Homo, Pan, Gorilla, Pongo, Hylobates, and Nomascus; three early hominins: Ardipithecus ramidus, Australopithecus afarensis, and Australopithecus africanus; and a Miocene ape, Ekembo nyanzae (Methods and SI Appendix, Fig.
The film begins with the first female hominoid, treads through the egalitarian neolithic era, past the ancient age of literacy, and into the roots of the patriarchy: a world that values men on a higher level than women because of the need for physical strength in agriculture and military force.
Not quite aptly titled, but close, writer - director Ryan Schifrin's cheapo horror opus pits everyone's favorite hirsute hominoid against the denizens of a remote town nestled at the base of a mountain called Suicide Peak.
Symphyseal shape variation in extant and fossil hominoids, and the symphysis of Australopithecus bahrelghazali.
The long - term scientific goal of this project is aimed at determining the role of hominoid - and human - specific gene duplications during brain development and evolution.
The lineage that led to the gibbons was the earliest hominoid to diverge from the group that led to the great apes and humans, about 17 million years ago.
Research interests: Plio - Pleistocene hominin evolution, 3D cranial morphometrics of fossil hominins and extant hominoids, giraffid evolution
Based on our physical features, we can readily classify ourselves as mammals, primates, and hominoids.
Nor have I ever dug up a hominoid scull or watched a bacterial infection evolve into a resistant strain in a Petri dish.
hominoid (hä - me - noyed).
The hominoids, including all apes and humans, split off from the lineage that led to Old World monkeys about 25 million years ago.
The specimen identified as a hominoid (ape or human) maxillary canine (upper fang) is not a primate or even a canine tooth.
The collections are taxonomically diverse and include over 30 species and subspecies of primates, with examples of lemurids, lorisids, callitrichines, cebines, atelines, pitheciines, cercopithecines, colobines and hominoids.
This lend support to the view that the general primate metabolic machinery has been conserved throughout the course of hominoid and hominid evolution.