Sentences with phrase «in hominid evolution»

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Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

This evolution, increasing in divergence and complexity, continued to the hominids and the species homo sapiens.

BRAINY CHIMPS Some modern chimps have brain surface features that were thought to have signaled humanlike brain evolution in hominids from as early as 3 million years ago, scans suggest.

Last Hominid Standing In Ian Tattersall's MASTERS OF THE PLANET and Chris Stringer's LONE SURVIVORS, both out in March, two leading researchers of human evolution and anthropology offer different perspectives on how Homo sapiens outlasted his hominid cousins to rule theHominid Standing In Ian Tattersall's MASTERS OF THE PLANET and Chris Stringer's LONE SURVIVORS, both out in March, two leading researchers of human evolution and anthropology offer different perspectives on how Homo sapiens outlasted his hominid cousins to rule the eartIn Ian Tattersall's MASTERS OF THE PLANET and Chris Stringer's LONE SURVIVORS, both out in March, two leading researchers of human evolution and anthropology offer different perspectives on how Homo sapiens outlasted his hominid cousins to rule the eartin March, two leading researchers of human evolution and anthropology offer different perspectives on how Homo sapiens outlasted his hominid cousins to rule thehominid cousins to rule the earth.

Rather, they were a much more primitive hominid population, possibly Homo habilis, whose members lived in, or at least transited, Dmanisi much earlier than what our accepted chronology of human evolution indicates.

The basin has been home to important discoveries in human evolution, including many hominid fossils and the earliest known stone tools (SN: 6/13/15, p. 6).

Although researchers have often assumed that the evolution of walking in hominids required at least a partial sacrifice of climbing abilities, Ardi avoided that trade - off, the scientists report the week of April 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«Gene flow is then an important component in fully understanding speciation processes and particularly in the recent evolution of hominids,» he said.

Our knowledge of hominid evolution — that is, when and how humans evolved away from the great ape family tree — has significantly increased in recent years, aided by unearthed fossils from Ethiopia, including the C. abyssinicus, a species of great ape.

First, it was found in Chad, 1,500 miles from the East African Rift Valley, long the presumed center of hominid evolution.

He hinted that gestural theory could clear up another mystery about this period as well: why the stone tools of these early hominids show little evolution for almost two million years, despite increases in brain size.

That puts N. nakayamai in the right geographic place, along a trajectory of hominid evolution that stretches for several hundred miles in eastern Africa.

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There is a trajectory found in the development of altruistic and cooperative social behaviors over the course of hominid evolution.

Hominids in arid environments, see Kaye E. Reed, «Early hominid evolution and ecological change through the African Plio - Pleistocene,» Journal of Human Evolution 32:289 - 32evolution and ecological change through the African Plio - Pleistocene,» Journal of Human Evolution 32:289 - 32Evolution 32:289 - 322 (1997).

The evolution of anatomical adaptations in the hominids could not have kept pace with these abrupt climate changes, which would have occurred within the lifetime of single individuals.