Sentences with phrase «human genus»

When I write about human nature, I use the 99 % of human genus history as a baseline.

Davis has all the time in the world for the reserve's albino gorilla, George, and very little time for basically the entire human genus, even including the thigh gap - flaunting blond intern who asks him to teach her the ways of domination in the animal kingdom.

For millions of years, the human genus was chugging along unimpressively, it experienced a few genetic bottlenecks due to disaster, but it chugged along.

The first biological stirrings of humankind occurred at a time of evolutionary experimentation in the human genus, Homo.

The world's oldest stone tools were made 3.3 million years ago — some 500,000 years before our human genus evolved.

ST. LOUIS — Researchers have discovered fossils of three ancient members of the human genus, Homo, in East Africa.

ANCIENT MOUTHFUL Researchers who discovered and analyzed a nearly complete set of 2 - million - year - old fossil teeth from a lower jaw suspect that the East African find comes from an early member of the human genus, Homo habilis.

Among the newest uploads are fossils of the recently discovered Homo naledi, the controversial species that may be at the base of the human genus (SN: 10/3/15, p. 6).

Consider Homo naledi, a famously puzzling fossil species in the human genus.

Two teeth previously unearthed in Sumatra's Lida Ajer cave and assigned to the human genus, Homo, display features typical of Homo sapiens, report geoscientist Kira Westaway...

Estimates range wildly, from as late as 50,000 years ago to as early as the beginning of the human genus more than 2 million years ago.

A series of fossil discoveries offered potentially important insights into the origins of the human genus, Homo.

A piece of fossilized jaw discovered at Ledi - Geraru, Ethiopia, pushes back the date when the first members of the human genus evolved by 400,000 years.

Two teeth previously unearthed in Sumatra's Lida Ajer cave and assigned to the human genus, Homo, display features typical of Homo sapiens, report geoscientist Kira Westaway of Macquarie University in Sydney and her colleagues.

Famed paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey thought tools made the man, and so when he uncovered hominid bones near stone tools in Tanzania in the 1960s, he labeled the putative toolmaker Homo habilis, the earliest member of the human genus.

While we'll never know the exact trajectory of our intelligence, skills like tracking «are part of the development of the human genus as well as the human genius,» agrees Daniel Lieberman, a professor in Harvard's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, where Liebenberg is an associate.

Writing in Nature in 1964, the prominent paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey connected the tools with what he said was the first member of the human genus, Homo habilis, or «handy man.»

H. naledi achieved worldwide acclaim in 2015 as a possibly pivotal player in the evolution of the human genus, Homo.

ATLANTA — Homo naledi, a rock star among fossil species in the human genus, has made an encore.

Now, archaeologist Paul Kozowyk of Leiden University in the Netherlands and colleagues have re-created the methods that these extinct members of the human genus could have used to produce tar.

At first he put the species in the human genus Homo, but he now suspects that the hobbit's ancestors left Africa before Homo evolved so the species could belong to a different or new genus.

Early members of Homo — the human genus — had a flair for preparing raw sliced meat, a new study suggests.

Fossils found in an underground cave in South Africa may be from a previously unknown species of the human genus, Homo.

If the fossils date to more than 2 million years ago, though, H. naledi would become one of the oldest members of the human genus.