Sentences with phrase «latest hominid»

The researchers argue for its hominid status partly because of its lower canine teeth, which in cross section are diamond - shaped like those of later hominids rather than V - shaped like those of apes.

Not exact matches

The argument says language was not of benefit in the present time of an evolving hominid thus it served no purpose then only future purpose after develepoment of arts etc. thousands of years later.

(Larson later joked, «Father, I have sinned — I have drawn dinosaurs and hominids together in the same cartoon.»)

If he is right, our hominid ancestors lived in Europe and only later migrated to Africa, where modern humans evolved.

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.

In that case, root fusion in Graecopithecus, as found in later fossil hominids, indicates a direct evolutionary connection, Begun says.

First discovered on the island of Java in 1891, and later unearthed in China, Kenya, Ethiopia, and the Republic of Georgia, Homo erectus («upright man») was the first hominid to migrate out of Africa.

Previously, anthropologists thought that Neanderthals and humans were the only hominids roaming Europe and Asia during the late Pleistocene.

Because the face and teeth resembled those of later human ancestors, the scientists said that the fossils were those of a human - like, or hominid, species — even though the skull could hold only a chimp - sized brain.

However, Stewart and Disotell [93] and Begun [94] suggested that crown hominids originated in Asia and that the ancestor of African apes and humans (Homininae) re-entered Africa in the late Miocene.

And even Leakey quickly abandoned the idea, because less than a year and a half later he discovered other hominid bones (OH 7, now allocated to Homo habilis) below OH 5.

Morphological affinities of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Late Miocene hominid from Chad) cranium.

The emergence of the genus Homo (H. habilis), around 2.5 million years ago, precedes the later Homo erectus species which is most likely the first hominid to leave Africa.

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If the GHG hypothesis is correct, then removing GHGs from the late - Holocene atmosphere should favor not only glacial inception but hominid speciation.