Sentences with phrase «many early hominids»

Earlier hominids did not count in Scripture's rendition because it focused on Semites, which allows for Indians in America, and Chinese in China.

Otherwise, these ignorant shepherds, er — your god — would have written that humans came from earlier hominids 200,000 years ago.

He imagines one group of early hominids, in one zone, who had been elevated to soul and had a direct experience of God which resulted in the subjugation of nature and matter to the spirit.

I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).

I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics.

They took early hominid DNA and they merged it with their own to help evolve our early ancestors into the beings we are today.

Thus, it may well be that our early hominid ancestors toted their babies around, too, rather than letting them crawl.

Maybe the modest brain capacity of early hominids was the source of the limitation of vocabulary size.

An early hominid who judged himself equal to a herd of mammoths most likely paid the ultimate price.

The South African fossil hunter famed for his discoveries of early hominids was going on a few photographs.

If there were an earlier hominid exodus from Africa 2 million years ago or longer, researchers don't expect to find the proof at Dmanisi.

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.

These data suggest that the anatomy and behavior of early hominids did not evolve in response to open savanna or mosaic settings.

Owen Lovejoy, a paleoanthropologist at Kent State University, has spent his career studying the fossils of early hominids.

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

Early hominids have even been posited to have possibly interbred with chimpanzees until just before the appearance of Australopithecus in the fossil record.

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

Five skulls from the same time period, including the first complete adult skull of the early Pleistocene (far right), suggest that early hominids may have been a single Homo species.

«The body proportions of modern humans are wildly different from those of early hominids, and that confounds the whole thing,» says University of Utah evolutionary biologist Dennis Bramble.

Although some researchers suspect that earlier hominids, not modern humans, made the stone tools, Marks is hopeful that future digs in Arabia, Iran, and western India will unearth still more evidence of humanity's bold, early route out of Africa.

Working on the joint Australian - Indonesian team that discovered Flores Man, Brown concluded that the brain shape, long arms, and chinless jaw indicate descent from an early hominid.

Jungers argues that this foot structure links the hobbit to earlier hominids.

Its face protrudes less than earlier hominids, but still retains many ape features.

Because of their fragility and size, bird bones have been rare or absent at most other eastern African fossil assemblages that included early hominids.

This contradicts the standard view, which envisages early hominids in Africa running about on dry, grassy plains in the heat of the midday sun.

Even among early hominids, the number of premolar roots varies enough to raise serious questions about whether Graecopithecus can be classified among them, says paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile - Selassie of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Their studies of the forest chimpanzees of West Africa suggest that for explanations of the physical and social characteristics of our earliest hominid forbears we should look at forests and woodland, not bush and grassland (New Scientist, Science, 19 May 1990).

Partial fusing of the two roots near where they split supports classifying Graecopithecus as an early hominid, researchers contend.

Among several similarities of Graecopithecus teeth to those of early hominids, partial fusion of the second premolar root stands out, the researchers say.

He has analyzed genetic relationships among diverse groups of people and finds that today's humans show evidence of interbreeding among Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, and other early hominids over a wide span of time, from as far back as 1.5 million years ago until the last hypothesized global migration, around 80,000 years ago.

That pattern may help explain how early hominids, despite their smaller brains, gradually developed complex cultures.

But evidence is mounting that these hallmarks of modern human behavior may have existed in earlier hominids.

Most of the senior members of the Chorora research team also belong to the Middle Awash project team that has recovered the fossil remains of at least eight hominid species, including some of the earliest hominids, spanning nearly 6 million years.

The review paper covers earliest hominid evolution, from about 6 to 1.6 million years ago.

However, fossil discoveries show that millions of years after early hominids became bipedal, they still had small brains.

11 We've been at this a long time: Charred bones and wood ash indicate that early hominids were tending the first intentional fires more than 400,000 years ago.

The site may give us the first glimpse of how our predecessors lived — it's the only place where early hominids have surfaced in a group.

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 new fossils superbly document the link between modern whales and their land - based forebears,» he concludes, «and should take their place among other famous «intermediates,» such as the most primitive bird, Archaeopteryx, and the early hominid Australopithecus.

While early hominids were not great hunters, and their dentition was not great for exploiting many specific categories of plant food, they were most likely dietary «jacks - of - all - trades.»

Toumaï is not the only fossil vying for the title of earliest hominid.

«I'd like to see if there is any evidence of stone pieces that could resemble these kinds of technologies at early hominid sites,» he says.

It doesn't exist in our ape relatives the chimpanzee or orangutan, but there is some evidence it may have been there in early hominids Neanderthal and Denisovan.

Based on their findings, the researchers suggest that schizophrenia did not exist in early hominids.

This bold theory would nearly wipe clean many early hominids.

When the team pieced the skeleton together, it revealed a very early hominid that walked upright, yet still retained an opposable toe, a trait commonly found in tree - climbing primates.

These early hominids lived some 1.8 million...

He hinted that gestural theory could clear up another mystery about this period as well: why the stone tools of these early hominids show little evolution for almost two million years, despite increases in brain size.

An extinct culture of early hominids isn't something you can recreate.

People of African heritage also retain DNA from as - of - yet unidentified early hominids.