Sentences with phrase «like sapiens»

Not exact matches

This creature looks a lot like Homo sapiens, but behaves differently.

Many biologists, and not the least eminent among them (all being convinced that Man, like everything else, emerged by evolutionary means, i.e. was born in Nature) undoubtedly still believe that the human species, having attained the level of Homo sapiens, has reached an upper organic limit beyond which it can not develop, so that anthropogenesis is only of retrospective interest.

I agree with Douglas Farrow's first two theses — that homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species and so characterized more by differences between male and female than by variation — but with the qualification that these sound like empirical claims, and it is perfectly conceivable that advances in reproductive technology might make sexual dimorphism and difference irrelevant.

Neanderthals sometimes seem like our defining Other, recognizably human yet not: Homo sapiens in a funhouse mirror that pushes the face forward yet obliterates the chin; inflates the brow ridge yet compresses the skull; and bulks out the chest yet truncates the lower limbs.

What was the planet like before Homo sapiens, and would it still be that way if we had never gone global?

But in the end, what really matters most to us is getting the hell out, escaping to a possibly better place and maybe making enough money to dress, eat, feel, and be treated like card - carrying Homo sapiens, rather than our current subspecies, Graduentia studentus minimus.

Wrangham aimed to fill a gap in the story of how early hominins like Australopithecus — essentially, apes that walked upright — evolved into modern Homo sapiens.

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.

Image: A mussel shell engraved by Homo erectus between 540,000 and 430,000 years ago Credit: Wim Lustenhouwer, VU University Amsterdam Source: Kate Wong's World's Oldest Engraving Upends Theory of Homo sapiens Uniqueness on Observations These scratches may not look like much but they predate the existence of our species, Homo sapiens, and upend any claim -LSB-...]

But some researchers have long suspected that the roots of our species are deeper, given that H. sapiens - like fossils in South Africa have been tentatively dated at 260,000 years old.

Or are these remains simply a population of small - bodied humans (Homo sapiens), like ourselves, but with one or more individuals suffering from a developmental disorder?

Eureka sapiens might have seen the balls migrate into the belly, like the ovaries.

The Eureka sapiens female pelvis might be able to spread apart, like the jaws of snakes.

After all, they are only able to put a realistic figure on the loss of diversity and the role of humans by comparing different epochs: What was the world like before Homo sapiens transformed it completely?

Archaeologist John Shea of Stony Brook University, who was not involved in the new work, notes Levallois - like stone tools have been found at sites in Africa dating to 500,000 years ago, and sites in Armenia dating to more than 300,000 years ago — long before H. sapiens is known to have appeared on the scene.

We might have some archeological record, but it seems like the behavior armamentarium of the Neandertal was very different; the cultural aspects of Neandertal life were very different from Homo sapiens.

The oldest known H. sapiens skulls, which his team considers to be the two Moroccan finds, have faces shaped like those of modern humans, Neubauer says.

Hardy's «aquatic apes» were not giant beasts living like Aquaman; rather, the species that eventually became Homo sapiens waded in and out of water and learned to swim and dive.

If you are a Replacementist, like me, you will restrict the concept «archaic Homo sapiens», or whatever you want to call it, to the ones that are very likely our ancestors, and the others (the Chinese and Indonesian fossils, mainly) will be a separate clade, Homo erectus.

The fossils form such a neatly graded series, getting less and less ape - like and more and more human as they get closer in time to the present, that the most earnest creationist can do little more than muddy the waters by inflating and distorting the existence of points of disagreement between specialists, or trying to revive long since discredited Homo sapiens specimens once claimed to have been from extremely ancient deposits.

That's all sorts of incredible, because Homo sapiens like you and me didn't leave Africa until about 175,000 years ago.

A variety of Late Pleistocene Australian fossils, such as those from Kow Swamp, have been said to be Homo sapiens but retaining certain Homo erectus - like features, which Lubenow distorts by saying that they are fully Homo erectus.

There were also theories that they were simple Homo sapiens with some sort of condition, like Down syndrome, or that they descended from an earlier African human ancestor.

The bones came from an ancient species that looked much like H. sapiens, a team of scientists now reports.

We already have a catastrophe the likes of which homo sapiens have never before experienced.

No one knows when or how these humans disappeared but, according to Professor Paabo, it is very likely something to do with modern people because all the «archaic» humans, like Denisovans and Neanderthals disappeared sometime after Homo sapiens sapiens appeared on the scene.

Homo rudolfensis may be the first member of the genus Homo on a path to modern humans, or it may be a more Homo — like australopithecine with no direct bearing on the evolution of H. sapiens.

By the same token, Anderson's much discussed penchant for virtuosic camera maneuvers and creating holistic, heroic movie - movies is perhaps revealed by Inherent Vice to be somewhat less impressive than his intuitive facility with actors — don't forget he molded art from lumps of clay like Mark Wahlberg and Adam Sandler — which suggests that his abiding interest might just be in homo sapiens as well.

Brain Volumes Australopithecus: 350cc, 3 million years ago Homo erectus: 800cc, 1.5 million years ago Homo sapiens: 1,350 cc, Today Chimpanzee: 450cc, Today Just look at the facts: it took just over three million years for us to evolve from a creature that looked a bit like a chimpanzee into the disfigured oddballs we are today: naked, sweaty, upright, chatty, brainy weirdoes.

Once a year, I like to take a step away from business as usual — from talking directly about herps — and instead discuss that most confounding and dangerous of creatures, the human (Homo sapiens).

The office is also where homo sapiens do a major proportion of our signalling, just like our buddy Christian was doing.

I suggest look at the fossil sequences of human ancestors from early apes to australopithicus, homo erectus and homo habilis to homo sapiens, and notice how they morph one into the other quite smoothly, all explained by Darwinian evolution, while with respect the old testament verision is clearly a creation myth like you find in early greek and roman culture etc, an imaginative guess, and very implausible in light of our current understanding of things.

Last but not least, I would like to thank everybody for a lesson in biology: humans, homo sapiens, appear to be no different than rabbits in regulating their population dynamics and resource consumption.

Thomas is like some obsessed neanderthal slavishly copying the actions of homo sapiens yet blind to the resulting nonsense.

Reading by candlelight, I consumed quite peacefully the pages of «Thinking Like a Mountain», an early guide to Deep Ecology, then migrated to «Healer, Shaman, Sage», where Alberto Villado conveyed stories by way of the indigenous tribes of Peru our evolution into a homo - luminous species, departing from homo - sapiens reliant soley upon our five senses.

We already have a catastrophe the likes of which homo sapiens have never before experienced.

A good democratic plague, one from which no one is immune, but saved by «fate» or «circumstance», perhaps taking 3 in 4, seems like a fair way to bring homo sapiens back in balance with nature.

size and intelligent wise homo sapiens like organism never lived on the earth before.

Then perhaps the jury, in conferring, would realize the futility in pointing a chiding hand at Homo sapiens, kind of like the futility in the parents facing their tormented teenager in «Rebel Without a Cause» (click for the «you're tearing me apart» scene):

I can not help but wonder what knowledgeable people are to do when a species like Homo sapiens is confronted with a colossal planetary emergency that it appears to have induced.

Earth and earthlings... we live life on the littoral, Earth's great continents adrift in a world awash with seas, crested waves rifting their shores, fugitive mists, winds, rain, storms we can't predict more than a day or so out, human sapiens, other critters, vegetable life, evolving in Darwinian mutating ways; Planet Earth, viewed from space, like a snapshot from the gods, a shimmering orb netted in a cloud haze.