Sentences with phrase «known hominid»

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

GENE BANK Scientists extracted the oldest known hominid DNA from this 400,000 - year - old leg bone excavated in a Spanish cave.

The fossil's humanlike face and teeth and chimp - size cranium are so different from any other known hominid that Brunet and his team have denominated it a new species: Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

New age estimates for previously discovered fossils position Graecopithecus as potentially the earliest known hominid, the investigators suggest.

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The find comes hot on the heels of the report of 6 - million - year - old bones found in Kenya's Tugen Hills, also hailed by their discoverers as belonging to the earliest known hominid (ScienceNOW, 22 February).

Along with the stone tools we've excavated, these prints help to push back the timeline of known hominid occupation in Northern Europe by at least 200,000 years.

You might know her as Lucy — one of the earliest known hominids.

The research team involved (led by Richard Leakey) attributed the toothless cranium to the genus Homo with the species indeterminate due to the large brain size and questionable morphological association with known hominids.

Not exact matches

No doubt the neural ground for the possibility of psychosomatic beings like ourselves to be able to develop aptitudes in this way was afforded by the plasticity of the hominid brain.

Once one accepts the enrichment beyond the merely material of the context within which human life is lived, one is no longer restricted to the notion of Darwinian survival necessity as providing the sole engine driving hominid development.

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.

By 1905, Krapina had yielded more hominid remains than any other site known at the time.

«The potential for mirror self - recognition evolved between 18 and 14 million years ago in the shared ancestor of hominids... We do not know what this creature looked like, but it is likely to have known what it looked like.»

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.

In this inherited malady, the brain is typically just 400 cc — roughly the same size as that of the early hominid Australopithecus africanus, of which «Lucy» is the best - known specimen.

When paleontologists study fossils through bone shape alone, they can only broadly infer the relationship between two hominids, no matter how many fossils they collect.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

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.

Part by part, Bramble and Lieberman have reinterpreted the hominid physique by juxtaposing bits of fossil evidence with what's known about the physiology and biomechanics of jogging.

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.

Better known as the hobbit, H. floresiensis was a diminutive hominid that lived roughly 500 kilometers south of Sulawesi on the island of Flores at around the same time the Sulawesi tools were made.

«We're now no more than a generation or two away from the emergence of an entirely new kind of hominid,» he says.

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).

No one suggests that the early hominids knew how to build a hearth or even start a fire.

«I'd really like to know,» she says, «when did fossil hominids get fat?»

Ardi's hip arrangement doesn't appear in two later fossil hominids, including the famous partial skeleton known as Lucy, a 3.2 - million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis.

When paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged of the Max Planck Institute in Germany first saw what appeared to be tiny hominid remains encased in 3.3 - million - year - old sandstone in northern Ethiopia — just miles from where the famous Lucy skeleton was found 32 years earlier — he knew he had found something special.

Although sediment analyses date both finds to around the time of hominid origins, it's not known whether this creature regularly walked upright, a signature hominid behavior.

For now, there is no way to know whether Graecopithecus jaws and teeth belonged to an ape with some hominid - like features or a hominid with some apelike features, says paleoanthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. «My guess is the former.»

Tooth characteristics of a chimpanzee - sized primate that once lived in southeastern Europe suggest that the primate, known as Graecopithecus, may have been a hominid, not an ape as many researchers assume.

And although she was among the oldest hominids known when she was discovered, there are now putative human ancestors dating back as far as seven million years ago.

The co-author on the paper, Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy, is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Kent State University, well known for his reconstructions of the socioecology and locomotor behavior of early hominids such as «Ardi» (Ardipithecus ramidus, 4.4 million years old) and «Lucy» (Australopithecus afarensis, 3.2 million years old).

The story of human evolution no longer looks like a smooth, gradual transition from ape to hominid.

The recent discovery of a fascinating new hominid species in the central African country of Chad rocks the foundation of the human family tree as we know it.

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center statistical geneticist Ryan Bohlender said that the hominid species is not likely Neanderthal or Denisovan but one that belongs to a third but related branch of family tree that produced the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, an extinct distant relative of Neanderthals known only from DNA collected from a finger bone and teeth that were discovered in a Siberian cave.

A line of hominids closely related to them is known as the Denisovans (Deh - NEE - so - vins).

Many researchers over the years have wondered why these brainy individuals then went extinct, but because Neanderthal DNA remains in current populations, these hominids were probably just absorbed into what is now known as Homo sapiens.

I know of no other creationist who has even tried to look at original fossil hominids: not Lubenow, not Bowden, certainly not Gish, all of whom snipe away from a position of profound ignorance.

We therefore suggest that FOXI3 may generally be involved in dental (cusp) development within and across mammalian lineages including the hominids which are known to exhibit marked variability in the presence of lingual cusps.

'' [Adrienne] Zihlman compares the pygmy chimpanzee to «Lucy,» one of the oldest hominid fossils known and finds the similarities striking.

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No, some other animal probably converted the grass into meat on the hoof, and the hominids got the characteristic carbon stable isotope ratio from eating the grazing animal — they ate grass indirectly, at one remove.

KNOWING that CO2 gas is a GHG, and KNOWING that we might need to bridge the gap to the next, several thousands of years - away rise in N65 insolation, what would you do, hominid, if it was all left up to you?

Sitting there, poking my fire, I contemplated the sagacity of those that knew not how badly we have managed just the last ~ 150 years of hominid generated data.