Sentences with phrase «modern human skulls»

Using CT scans of ancient and modern human skulls, the researchers created digital brain reconstructions, based on the shape of the inner surface of each skull's braincase.

To work out just how different, Denion's team examined 100 modern human skulls and 120 ape skulls — 30 each belonging to gibbons, orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees.

I find it rather easy to distinguish a modern human skull from that of an ape or monkey.

Because its brain was far smaller than any human, creationists have no choice but to call this an ape, despite the fact that 1470 looks more similar to 1813 than it does to a modern human skull.

Creationists sometimes give the impression that it is a modern human skull.

Modern human skull (left) and Neanderthal skull (right) at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 2008.

Not exact matches

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

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.

«According to our analysis of the skull, which bears a complex mix of archaic and modern characteristics, this was probably the only place on earth where Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans lived side by side for a long period of time.»

Instead the skull indicates that modern humans met and interbred with Neanderthals in Israel, only to later pass on their genes to the rest of the world.

«Ancient skull shows modern humans colonized Eurasia 60 - 70,000 years ago.»

«The morphology of the skull indicates that it is that of a modern human of African origin, bearing characteristics of early European Upper Palaeolithic populations.

«If modern humans indeed moved from Africa 70,000 years ago to Israel, this skull means they settled in the Levant for a long period of time, before moving to Europe (45,000 years ago).

It is interesting that the most similar skulls in our sample come from recent Africans on the one hand, and on the other hand from those modern humans that lived in Europe between 20 - 30,000 years ago as, for instance,... [in one location] in the Czech Republic.»

A new study claims that the hobbit (lower photo) shares traits with modern humans afflicted with cretinism (top skull).

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

And the variation in skull size and facial shape is no greater than in other species, including both modern humans or chimps, says Ponce de León — especially when the growth of the jaw and face over a lifetime are considered.

Look at a primate or a Neanderthal skull and compare it with a modern human's.

Curnoe nicknamed the bones the Red Deer Cave people; he and his colleagues compared them with modern and contemporary human remains from Asia, Australia, Europe, and Africa, as well as with Pleistocene East Asian hunter - gatherer skulls.

The team analyzed the projection of the brow ridge, facial shape, and cranial volume of 13 early Homo sapiens that lived before 80,000 years ago; 41 modern humans that lived 38,000 to 10,000 years ago; and skulls from a global sample of 1367 recent humans.

The shapes and sizes of thousands of skulls from all over the globe point to a single origin in sub-Saharan Africa for modern humans, according to a recent study.

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.

They have thinner brow ridges and less robust skull bones, similar to early modern humans and some other Asian fossils.

Homo habilis is argued out of existence altogether; the famous East African skull, ER 1470 (which some, but nowadays by no means all, authorities class with Homo habilis) somehow becomes a modern human representative.

It is similar in shape to recent African skulls as well as to European skulls from the Upper Paleolithic period, but different from most other early anatomically modern humans in the Levant.

The skull of a female found on the Flores island is less than one - third the size of the skull of modern humans.

Scientists have finally been able to tackle a much - debated topic about the shape of Neanderthals» skulls compared to modern humans.

Creationists interpret this to mean that it was the skull of a modern human; in fact, Bowden (1981) thinks it «probably the most convincing evidence» of this.

A human skull fragment recently unearthed at Manot Cave in Israel provides strong evidence that both anatomically modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals...

The Neanderthal skull showed that its brain was much bigger than the average modern human's — around 20 % bigger.

The fact that dozens of erectus fossils exist and that their skull anatomy in particular is quite different from modern humans is concealed.

(Compare the Turkana Boy skull and a modern human here.)

There are no unambiguous archaic sapiens in Asia but two recently - discovered skulls from China seem to have the flattened erectus - type foreheads, yet their ECV's are apparently close to the modern human average and their faces are flatter than the usual erectus specimens.

H. erectus skulls are much smaller than those of equivalently - sized modern humans.

Let us grant, for the moment and for the sake of argument, AIG's claim that the skull sizes of Homo erectus fall within the range of modern humans.

So, another question for AIG: if the Dmanisi skulls are H. erectus, and erectus skulls are «within the range of people today», could they please provide some evidence of modern humans with similar brain sizes?

Modern human basal length grows at 0.052 mm / yr after the late - juvenile stage; so using Cuozzo's logic the two adult orangutans must have been 596 and 788 years old, respectively (plus the 7 years to reach the age of the juvenile skull).

So although the extreme lower range of modern human brain sizes does overlap that of Homo erectus, their skulls are very different: in H. erectus, the brain case really is smaller in relation to the rest of the skull.

NEW YORK — The skull of a newly discovered 325 - million - year - old shark - like species suggests that early cartilaginous and bony fishes have more to tell us about the early evolution of jawed vertebrates — including humans — than do modern sharks, as was previously thought.

Moreover, unlike modern humans with low brain sizes, these skulls are very robust, with flattened braincases and large brow ridges.

Gould reexamined Morton's data on cranial capacity variation in modern human populations and concluded that Morton had selectively reported data (see Box 1), manipulated sample compositions (see Box 2), made analytical errors, and mismeasured skulls in order to support his a priori views on intelligence differences between human groups.

To accompany the retrospective, «For the Love of God» (2007)-- a platinum cast of a human skull set with 8,601 flawless pavé - set diamonds — is on exhibition in the Tate Modern's monumental turbine hall.

A platinum cast of a human skull set with 8,601 VVS to flawless pavé - set diamonds diamonds, the sculpture has previously been exhibited at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2008) and Tate Modern, London (2012) amongst others, but has never before been shown in Scandinavia.