Sentences with phrase «larger than a chimpanzee»

The results showed that even though this hominid's brain was no larger than a chimpanzee's, it most likely walked upright like modern humans.

Despite having a brain only slightly larger than a chimpanzee's, H. naledi displays key humanlike neural features, two anthropologists reported April 20 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

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

They have brains no larger than a chimpanzee's — with a volume around 400 — 500 cm3 -, but walk upright on two legs.

She decided it definitively because it's absolutely clear from her pelvis and other features that she walked upright on two legs just like we do and yet her brain is no larger than a chimpanzee's brain.

Early hominins weren't any larger than chimpanzees.

Not exact matches

But how did the human brain get larger than that of our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, if almost all of our genes are the same?

The human version of that switch produces a 12 percent larger cortex than a chimpanzee version does, the Duke team reports February 19 in Current Biology.

New Iberia, part of the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, houses more than 6000 monkeys and about 325 chimpanzees, making it one of the country's largest primate facilities.

This leads to a brain three times larger than that of a chimpanzee — a fundamental difference that contributes to what makes us human.

«Our brains are three times larger, have many more cells and therefore more processing power than chimpanzee or monkey,» said Andre M.M. Sousa, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of neuroscientist Nenad Sestan and co-lead author of the study.

This echoes prior research by Dr Newton - Fisher which found that if a larger number of other chimpanzees are nearby then, regardless of rank, the grooming chimp would usually stop grooming sooner than if there were no other chimps nearby, or a small number.

From the human perspective, few events in evolution were more momentous than the split among primates that led to apes (large, tailless primates such as today's gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans) and Old World monkeys (which today include baboons and macaques).

The specimen's only shortcoming, though, is glaring: Unlike the teeth in the Chad skull, Orrorin's canines are not only larger than our own but grooved like those of a chimpanzee.

As the American human spaceflight program began to build momentum, the nation started experimenting with chimpanzees, which are larger and more closely related to humans than are rhesus, squirrel or other monkeys.

Except for having small rather than large teeth, and a quadrupedal rather than a bipedal pelvis, pygmy chimpanzees are remarkably like early gracile australopithecines in their skeletal dimensions.

Furthermore, chimpanzees, like humans, also have a larger and more gyrified brain than other primates species.

It's cranial capacity was the smallest ever recorded in an adult early human, and at 410 cc it was not much larger than that of a modern chimpanzee.

Hominids are best compared with the similar - sized chimpanzees than the much larger gorillas.