Sentences with word «homo»

The alleged «unreasonable» risk occurs, apparently (and anecdotally) because most members of Homo sapiens sapiens who use the iPod need to put (and indeed do put) the earbuds in their own ears in order to listen to the iPod.

He misunderstands the mitochrondial Eve concept (p. 14), apparently believing that the age of mitochondrial Eve and the appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens must coincide, when there is not necessarily any relationship between the two.

Readers could easily get the impression from Parker that the species of Homo erectus doesn't even exist.

«A new species of genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge.»

This may have been an adaptation to new environments and endurance hunting, as early Homo species left the forests and moved on to more arid African savannahs,» says lead author Dr Manuel Will from Cambridge's Department of Archaeology, and a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College.

«Craniofacial variation in Homo habilis: An analysis of the evidence for multiple species.»

The regions inhabited by Neanderthals overlapped with early Homo sapiens for some period of time, and interbreeding is confirmed: most modern humans have between 1 % and 4 % Neanderthal DNA.

The demise of the Dinosaurs created ecological conditions which eventually fostered the development of modern Humans (as Homo sapiens sapiens) only around 130,000 years ago.

The cave on the Indonesian island Flores in which Homo floresiensis fossils were discovered in 2003.

In the June 10 SN: Opioids» youngest victims, the search for safer painkillers, tales of whale evolution, mosquitoes vs. mosquitoes, new dates for Homo naledi, Baby Louie's true identity, an «exercise pill» for mice, noisy meteors and more.

If our brain keeps dwindling at that rate over the next 20,000 years, it will start to approach the size of that found in Homo erectus, a relative that lived half a million years ago and had a brain volume of only 1,100 cc.

The economic theory based on Homo economicus has no place in for any notion of fairness or justice.

As with Homo erectus, this «disqualification» is based on the early erroneous dating of ER 1470 which had been abandoned about 5 years before Fix wrote his book.

In fact, as Goodman was writing, newer finds were pushing back the earliest dates for Homo sapiens sapiens to a little over 100,000 years.

And by the time a species called Homo heidelbergensis had appeared, perhaps around 600,000 years ago, there was a clear right - handed preference in prehistoric societies.

No, not Homo floresiensis, aka the hobbit, discovered in Indonesia a decade ago this September.

First, let's talk about the dating of Homo neanderthalensis remains.

However, the history of the more modern Homo erectus, big - brained and fully upright, has been told mainly through skull fossils, says Sileshi Semaw, a palaeoanthroplogist at the Stone Age Institute in Gosport, Indiana, who led the team.

Zinjanthropus: it was indeed displaced by Homo habilis within a few years of its discovery, but even before then it had never been considered to be a human ancestor by anyone but Louis Leakey.

New species like the 7 - million - year - old Sahelanthropus tchadensis and the 300,000 - year - old Homo naledi have added to our understanding of humanity's past.

D4500 / D2600 combines a small braincase (546 cubic centimeters) with a large prognathic face and exhibits close morphological affinities with the earliest known Homo fossils from Africa.

Pettibon's most recent show is called Homo Americanus and it is currently on view at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg — Sammlung Falckenberg in Hamburg (from February 28 until September 11, 2016).

«They have evidence that hominids in Africa had already been impacting the size distribution of mammals on that continent before Homo sapiens evolved,» says paleoecologist Emily Lindsey, assistant curator and excavation site director of the La Brea Tar Pits Museum in Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study.

Since man evolved into homo sapiens, he has experienced a wide range of cooler and warmer temperatures than we experience today.

His understanding of homo religiosus.

The bits of Andromeda's light hitting your retina started their journey when Homo habilis, the earliest member of our genus, first scratched his brow in Africa's Olduvai Gorge.

The prominent brow and temporal bone resemble other Homo erectus specimens found elsewhere in Africa, and in Europe, Indonesia and China.

A new, slightly morbid study based on the calorie counts of average humans suggests that human - eating was mostly ritualistic, not dietary, in nature among hominins including Homo erectus, H. antecessor, Neandertals, and early modern humans.

It's one of the few hominin fossils that date to between 2.5 million and 3 million years ago, when a small - brained australopith was evolving into the larger - brained Homo genus.

In this moment and for an indeterminate number of future ones whose precise number is lost to Time, this first homo sapien was the only human on Earth.

In 2003, a dig on Flores island in Indonesia turned up a diminutive hominin9, which researchers named Homo floresiensis and dubbed the hobbit.

How did Homo sapiens come to be the last species standing?

Dave, your «alternative world» would be one in which Homo Sapiens had evolved differently with less self - gratification in short term thinking and more in long term thinking which quite likely would have inhibited the ability to survive the environment present during that time when the «higher» brain functions and complex social interactions were themselves emerging.

(On opening day, a 4 - year - old boy stared at a pair of 1.8 - million - year - old Homo ergaster, protecting their half - butchered antelope from a vulture's attack, and blurted: «They're naked!

«Interbreeding among various archaic Homo sapiens populations surely occurred in Africa, particularly given that Africa is considered to be the place of origin for modern humans to have arisen,» co-author Christopher Bae of the University of Hawaii at Manoa told Seeker.

The team argued that ancient aboriginal predecessors such as Mr. Mungo and his friends — who possessed both frame and countenance not unlike our own — evolved in their time, on their blessèd plot, in the 2 million years since Homo erectus left Africa.

In your interview with Richard Leakey, you report that he steps aside from the debate on whether Homo floresiensis — ...

We believe these were probably left by the ancient species called Homo antecessor.

Set off on a crazy journey to solve the surreal puzzles of Homo Machina and learn about the internal working of the human body, represented as a...