Sentences with phrase «human and ape features»

On that tree human beings are on a direct line of descent from beings called Australopithecenes who have human and ape features.

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'' [The species had] a mixture of ape - like and human - like features.

With a mixture of ape and human features — including long dangling arms but pelvic, spine, foot, and leg bones suited to walking upright — slender Lucy stood three and a half feet (107 centimeters) tall.

He belongs to the species Australopithecus sediba, has a mix of ape - like and human - like features, and was named «Answer» by a 17 - year - old South African student in a competition.

Despite the age and unprecedented completeness of the new ape skull, no reported tooth or skull features clearly place N. alesi close to the origins of living apes and humans, says paleoanthropologist David Begun of the University of Toronto.

Other features hinted that the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees was a quadruped and not a knuckle - walking ape, as was long thought.

It's now possible to not only model disease using the cells, but also to compare iPSCs from humans to those of our closest living relatives --- great apes, with which we share a majority of genes --- for insight into what molecular and cellular features make us human.

«In addition, our study has shown that there is a mosaic evolution of the three species, in the sense that some features are shared by humans and bonobos, others by humans and common chimpanzees, and still others by the two ape species,» said Rui Diogo, lead author of the paper and associate professor of anatomy at Howard University.

This «chromosomal disorder» is a key feature of the gibbon genome and has probably occurred after their secession from the ancestral line of the apes and humans.

It is well known that one of the main distinctive features between humans and our closest evolutionary cousins, the great apes, is the morphology and manipulative capabilities of their hands.

Although the metatarsal robusticity sequence is human - like and the hallux is fully adducted, other intrinsic proportions and pedal features are more ape - like.

For example, they note that Darwinius has a short snout and a deep jaw — two features that are found in monkeys, apes, and humans.

Williams, Kay and Kirk also collaborated on a related article about to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that reviews the early fossil record and anatomical features of anthropoids — the primate group that includes monkeys, apes, and humans.

They further argue that Darwinius lacks most of the key anatomical features that could demonstrate a close evolutionary relationship with living haplorhines (apes, monkeys, humans, and tarsiers).

Australopithecus individuals had a mixture of ape and human features.

«While great apes typically have two or three separate and diverging roots, the roots of Graecopithecus converge and are partially fused — a feature that is characteristic of modern humans, early humans and several pre-humans including Ardipithecus and Australopithecus,» says Madelaine Böhme, co-lead investigator on the project.

Humans and ancient apes looked a lot alike 7 million years ago, they say, and some features of the fossil skull are more ape - like than human - like.

The ACC and FI, though sometimes considered ancient in phylogeny, feature a large bipolar projection neuron, the von Economo neuron (VEN), which is found only in humans, apes, and selected whales - all large - brained mammals with complex social structures.

Given either pictures or descriptions of skeletal features of hominids, including modern human, apes and australopithecines, students will assign them to their appropriate group.

Similarly, the origin of haplorhine primates (tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans) was associated with the evolution of features supporting very high visual acuity (e.g., a retinal fovea, macula lutea, postorbital plate, small corneas relative to eye size, etc.) and a simultaneous reduction in the size and complexity of the nasal fossa.

The oldest known hominid; it shares many features with both apes and humans but is thought to be bipedal.

Disc 1: Rise of the Planet of the Apes Blu - ray ** 11 Deleted Scenes ** The Genius of Andy Serkis ** Scene Breakdown ** A New Generation of Apes ** Breaking Motion Capture Boundaries ** The Great Apes ** Mythology of the Apes ** Composing the Score with Patrick Doyle ** Audio Commentaries by Director and Writers ** Character Concept Art Gallery ** Digital Disc 2: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Blu - ray ** Journey to Dawn ** Andy Serkis: Rediscovering Caesar ** Humans and Apes: The Cast of Dawn ** The World of Dawn ** The Ape Community ** Move Like an Ape: An Artist's Medium ** Weta and Dawn ** The Fight for a New Dawn ** Deleted Scenes With Optional Audio Commentary by Matt Reeves ** Feature Audio Commentary by Matt Reeves ** Gallery ** Digital Disc 3: War for the Planet of the Apes Blu - ray ** Audio Commentary by Director Matt Reeves ** Deleted Scenes with Optional Audio Commentary by Director Matt Reeves ** Waging War for the Planet of the Apes ** All About Caesar ** WETA: Pushing Boundaries ** Music for Apes ** Apes: The Meaning of It All ** The Apes Saga: An Homage ** Concept Art Gallery ** Theatrical Trailers ** Digital

In the 2011 feature Rise of the Planet of the Apes, ambulance the camera was a tool that director Rupert Wyatt used to show the power dynamic between the apes and the humApes, ambulance the camera was a tool that director Rupert Wyatt used to show the power dynamic between the apes and the humapes and the humans.

Kagan began his talk by noting that of the four or five distinguishing features of humans, as distinct from apes, «the fifth — a sense of right and wrong, a conception of self as virtuous and nonvirtuous,» is not only the most important, but also, «probably the most adaptive [and indeed] the competing motive for evolutionary fitness.»