Sentences with phrase «many palaeoanthropologists»

The earliest confirmed evidence of controlled fire use dates to several thousand years ago but some palaeoanthropologists argue control began as far back as 1 to 2 million years ago.

Palaeoanthropologists often use chimps as «proxies» for our common ancestor, so Ardi's debut may mean that much of what we think we know about human evolution will have to be rethought.

«This specimen is really important and exciting, as — assuming the dating is correct — it shows for the first time that modern humans existed in the Near East at the same time as Neanderthals,» says Katerina Harvati, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

«It's how I cut my teeth as a palaeoanthropologist — working with the mess that is Homo habilis,» says Lieberman.

In the early 1960s, a team led by palaeoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey found a deformed lower jaw, hand and partial skull in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

We hit the jackpot,» says Bence Viola, a palaeoanthropologist who co-led the study of the remains.

The more precise dates for Neanderthal — human mating pose a challenge for scientists who have proposed that modern humans left Africa before 100,000 years ago and reached Asia more than 75,000 years ago, says Chris Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at London's Natural History Museum.

«It looks Homo - ish to me, but I'd like to see their numbers,» agrees Daniel Lieberman, a palaeoanthropologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, referring to precise measurements of the jaw.

The most noticeable feature of the Busidima pelvis is its wide birth canal, says Scott Simpson, a palaeoanthropologist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, who was part of a team that uncovered the nearly complete bone.

He and Glenn Conroy, a palaeoanthropologist at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, wanted to improve the odds of success.

The message seems to be go out and find some more material and stop going round in circles arguing about the same few specimens, which will encourage any budding palaeoanthropologists.

Three - dimensional scans allow us to virtually make the skeleton «stand up»,» said Dr. Paul Tafforeau, a palaeoanthropologist and leading figure in the use of synchrotron X-rays for palaeontological applications.

For decades, palaeoanthropologists have been debating whether Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, was the lone hominin living in eastern Africa at the time.

But Jean - Jacques Hublin, a palaeoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, thinks that later waves of humans replaced them.

One American palaeoanthropologist thinks the answer lies in the stay - at - home tendencies of our immediate ancestors who were beginning to exercise brain over brawn.

Chris Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London who had argued that remains from Skhul and Qafzeh signified unsuccesful migrations, says that he is now swayed by the Daoxian teeth.

However, Clive Finlayson, a palaeoanthropologist at the Gibraltar Museum, says the idea that there were just a handful of hominid migrations out of Africa is a vast oversimplification that ignores how other species expand their range over time.

For many palaeoanthropologists, that's a step too far.

«Our new data reveal that Homo sapiens spread across the entire African continent around 300,000 years ago,» said coauthor Jean - Jacques Hublin, a palaeoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in a press release.

Given ongoing uncertainty surrounding the human fossil record, palaeoanthropologists have come to rely on the results of genetic sequencing of samples from living populations to reconstruct the origins of modern humans in East Asia.

Chris Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, agrees.

It is the least understood episode in human evolution, says Russell Ciochon, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

But David Begun of the University of Toronto, and one of the world's leading palaeoanthropologists, told The Independent neither tooth had a resemblance Fossils vary in size from one micrometer bacteria to dinosaurs and trees, many meters long and weighing many tons.