Sentences with phrase «modern apes»

These can be «read» using the anatomy of modern apes and humans as guides for their interpretation.

The theory is we share a common ancestor with modern apes.

In any event, the actual answer to your query will be lost on you, but apes and humans had a common ancestor that was indeed more like modern apes in many ways (especially with respect to cognitive development), but identical to no modern species.

E. nyanzae's pelvis was specialized for climbing, as in modern apes and monkeys.

Together they present the picture of a fantastical, mosaic hominid — one with pelvis and feet adapted for walking but with a divergent big toe splayed out like those of modern apes for climbing and grasping.

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.

c. Modern apes and humans shared a common ancestor that was neither strictly an ape nor a human.

We began to take evolution into our own hands, starting a series of innovations that changed human history — and made us into the very modern apes we are today (see timeline below).

While sharing a similar physique to anatomically modern apes, Bao Bao have some differences.

The science is pretty clear and noncontroversial: humans descended from earlier animals and share ancestry with 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.

In his bust, Gurche chose to make the sclera — the whites of the eyes — dark, consistent with their coloration in modern apes.

It is a fact is that fossil skulls have been found that are intermediate in appearance between humans and modern apes.

His jawbone turned out to belong to a modern ape.

Evolution proposes that human beings and modern apes and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor.

Piltdown man, discovered in 1911, was widely accepted by paleontologists; in 1953, fluorine tests and X-ray spectrographs showed that a modern ape's jawbone had been skillfully disguised to match a human upper skull.

We did not come from any modern apes — chimps and gorillas are our distant cousins, not our ancestors.

In contrast, modern apes like gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos walk on their knuckles, an adaptation that was always assumed to be ancient.

«The Ardi wrist is wholly unlike a modern ape wrist,» Lovejoy says.

This creature, depicted at right, may have been a surprisingly small ancestor of all modern apes.

The age and location of these fossils strengthen the view that the human and the modern ape lines originated in Africa and not Asia, the researchers said.

This compares with 6 and 12 years in modern humans and 3 and 5 years for modern apes, indicating that H. erectus was starting down the road of modern dental development.

Lockwood and his colleague's work implies that Like some modern apes juvenile P. robustus males left their birth group to live on their own and that when older and larger, had to fight to gain a harem of their own.

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.