Sentences with phrase «large braincase»

The mouse - size creature's relatively large braincase and short snout clearly mark it as a primate, says Hu, who made the discovery in collaboration with Xijun Ni and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

Neanderthals were adapted to the cold, as shown by their large braincases, short but robust builds, and large noses â $» traits selected by nature in cold climates, as observed in modern sub-arctic populations.

Not exact matches

The hobbit stood about 1 metre tall and the single skull found so far has a braincase no larger than a chimpanzee's.

Maéva Orliac of Montpellier University, France, and colleagues say that a new fossil cast of its braincase shows Hyopsodus had a large inferior colliculus, a brain region enlarged in echolocating animals (PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0030000).

In fact, the face and palate of 1470 are so large that until the braincase was assembled, Richard Leakey thought, judging from the facial bones, that 1470 was a robust australopithecine (Walker and Shipman 1996).

Moreover, unlike modern humans with low brain sizes, these skulls are very robust, with flattened braincases and large brow ridges.