Sentences with phrase «known homo»

OUR KIND Approximately 300,000 - year - old fossils unearthed in Morocco, including this lower jaw, come from the oldest known Homo sapiens, researchers contend.

CT scans of fossils from a Moroccan site were used to produce composite reconstructions of a skull that some researchers attribute to the earliest known Homo sapiens.

Earlier this year, researchers working at another site in the Afar region found the oldest known Homo fossils: Dated to 2.8 million years old, the fragmentary jaw and teeth, not yet formally assigned to H. habilis, suggest Homo emerged 400,000 years earlier than currently thought.

Oldest known Homo sapiens fossils come from northern Africa, studies claim.

During a June news conference, shortly before the study was published in Nature, Hublin noted it's unlikely the Jebel Irhoud individuals, the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils by about 100,000 years, are our direct ancestors.

Found in Ethiopia, this roughly 195,000 - year - old skull known as Omo I is the oldest known Homo sapiens fossil.

Not exact matches

Once the threshold of 150 individuals is crossed, things can no longer work [on the basis of intimate relations]... How did Homo sapiens manage to cross this critical threshold, eventually founding cities comprising tens of thousands of inhabitants and empires ruling hundreds of millions?

Economists all know that Homo economicus is an abstraction from the fullness of human reality.

Gays are not enforced to be gays but its their choice lord father has created us as a male and female and both are complete by each other but the matter of concern is that being homo is not what lord but he knew such things would take place.

We do not know why there should be millions of years of life upon this planet before ever Homo sapiens appeared.

Everyone knows that human beings are also political actors, Homo politicus, and religious actors, Homo religiosus.

The video, which surfaced on YouTube last week, shows a child in front of the congregation, singing «I know that God is right, and somebody's wrong... ain't no homo going to make it to heaven.»

Of course, as economists know, homo economicus is an abstraction, but we can not think of human beings in general without abstraction.

The earliest known fossils of homo sapiens date from about 100,000 years ago, and paleontologists tell us that hominid species go back some 4.4 million years.

These tiny but intricate carvings from mammoth - ivory are the work of early Homo sapiens, having been radiocarbon - dated to between 30,000 and 33,000 years old, and therefore represent some of the earliest known symbolic art.

Once I noticed it was NOT in the coolers I grabbed a litre of homo milk and knew this product was not for my family!

Hummus — also known as houmous, hoummous, hamos, hommus or homos — is a simple blend of ground, cooked chickpeas (garbanzo beans), tahini, oil, lemon juice, garlic and seasonings.

I just want my lovely readers to know the kind of Homo sapiens the «Tetteh family» is composed of.

«We know that some form of human definitely penetrated Arabia, and that some of the dates of those sites coincide with the appearance of Homo sapiens in the Levant around 100,000 years ago,» says Petraglia.

«Not only the oldest known human fragment from Africa,» Leakey proclaimed, «but the most ancient fragment of true Homo yet discovered anywhere in the world.»

Also known as corpse wax, it effectively preserved the shape of the soft brain tissue (HOMO — Journal of Comparative Human Biology, doi.org/nz6).

In 2005 a virtual brain of the one known skull of Homo floresiensis — the three - foot - tall hominid discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores — provided evidence in the ongoing debate about whether the creature represents a separate species or was a human pygmy with a birth defect.

Yet today, although Neanderthals and Homo erectus are widely known, Boskops are almost entirely forgotten.

You know what the index fossil of Homo sapiens in the recent fossil record is going to be?

A shell etched by Homo erectus is by far the oldest engraving ever found, challenging what we know about the origin of art and complex human thought

Now the residue from all the oil and coal burned to power modern civilization may provide the best marker for the start of a new geologic epoch that highlights Homo sapiens's world - changing impact, known as the Anthropocene, or «new age of humans.»

No one knows why, just 500,000 years later, a radically more advanced species — Homo erectus — emerged.

Together with a reassessment of known fossils, published in Nature this week by Spoor and colleagues, the find is stimulating new efforts to sort out the mixed bag of early Homo remains and to and to work out which forms emerged first.

This mismatch between these numbers and 1880 estimates of at least three billion suggests that the passenger pigeon may have been what is known to ecologists as an «outbreak» species, like locusts, that boom and bust with changes in conditions, rather than a species that experiences a singular population explosion, as Homo sapiens has in the last 200 years.

So, given three possible explanations for what the Flores hominid is, and those three possibilities are that, you know, a dwarfed species descended from Homo erectus or an Australopithecine or a microcephalic modern human, he says that the most parsimonious diagnosis is the one that requires the fewest assumptions — would be microcephaly.

From this data, we've known for three decades that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa some 200,000 years ago.

Although Liebenberg's observations support the runner - as - hunter hypothesis, Bramble and Lieberman think early Homo would more likely have first run to scavenge prey killed by other carnivores — a strategy the Hadza people of East Africa are known to use.

Then the scientists noticed the ridge in a pitted, yellowed skull of our 2 - million - year - old relative Homo erectus — but not in older hominids known as australopithecines, who walked the earth as far back as 4.4 million years ago.

After calculating height and weight projections drawn from the impressions, as well as studying flint tools and other artifacts previously found nearby, the team believes the tracks were made by a small group of adult and juvenile members of the species Homo antecessor, known mostly from a handful of fossils in Spain.

«We don't know if early Homo sapiens fossils or the Florisbad individual were genetically related to the Ballito Bay boy,» he says.

«Scientists discover oldest known modern human fossil outside of Africa: Analysis of fossil suggests Homo sapiens left Africa at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.»

The very name of the oldest known member of our genus, Homo habilis, translates to «handyman» in reference to tool making.

«We already know that Homo habilis had brain lateralization and was more like us than like apes.

Although the fossils are still undated, making it hard to know where they sit in the human family tree, they already reveal a profoundly different way to be a member of our genus Homo.

Or a Homo species closely related to H. sapiens — but not known from any previous fossils — may have traveled to Misliya Cave, he speculates.

The shells were excavated by the Dutch physician and researcher Eugène Dubois, the discoverer of Pithecanthropus erectus — now known as Homo erectus.

We already knew that Homo heidelbergensis could fashion wooden spears — a 500,000 - year - old horse shoulder blade from Boxgrove, UK, has a semicircular hole in it that suggests it was pierced by a spear.

«We don't know for sure what species it was,» says team member Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, «but my bet is it's an early form of Homo heidelbergensis or Homo antecessor.»

A mere decade ago, the burly, jut - jawed crowd was known as a dead - end species that lost out to us, Homo sapiens.

We already knew that our species, Homo sapiens, interbred with two other hominin species, the Neanderthals and Denisovans.

That led to a startling conclusion: A female member of the lineage that gave rise to Homo sapiens in Africa mated with a Neandertal male more than 220,000 years ago — much earlier than other known encounters between the two groups.

Humans, for instance, would no longer be Homo sapiens but rather sapiens Linnaeus 1758.

Many anthropologists have argued that A. africanus couldn't be our direct ancestor largely because of timing: The earliest known members of the genus Homo — though their classification remains controversial and their fossils fragmentary — turn up in East Africa soon after A. africanus appears in South Africa.

After all, at the core of economic theory sits a greedy idealization of human nature known as Homo economicus.

Homo sapiens would still belong to a taxonomic group called Mammalia, but Mammalia would no longer be a class.