Sentences with phrase «modern ape bones»

Skinner and his colleagues predicted how this should shape the soft bone in ape hands, then looked at modern ape bones, finding their predictions were right.

Not exact matches

When Skinner and his colleagues looked at the metacarpals of early human species and neanderthals — who also used stone flakes for tasks like scraping and butchering — they found bone ends that were shaped like modern human bones, and unlike ape bones.

The hand bones of Stw 573 seem to be like those of modern humans in being relatively unspecialized, having a short palm and fingers compared to modern apes.

Richard Leakey published evidence in 1971 indicating that the Australopithecines were «knucklewalkers» not unlike the living African apes which are long - armed, short - legged knucklewalkers.12 In 1975 a quantitative computerized comparison of the bones of modern apes, Australopithecines and man placed the three kinds of creatures in three separated groups.