Sentences with phrase «more gracile»

Detailed morphological comparisons (google e.g. marc verhaegen human evolution) suggest IMO that South - African australopiths are more related to Homo - Pan than to Gorilla, and East - African australopiths more to Gorilla than to Homo - Pan, and that the East - Africans & the South - Africans often evolved in parallel (allopatrically A.africanus - > robustus / / A.afarensis - > boisei), from more gracile to more robust, possibly in response to the same climatic changes (e.g. Pleistocene cooling & drying).

Domesticated animals also have more gracile builds, smaller teeth, flatter faces, a more striking range of coloration and hair types — and, in many breeds, floppy ears and curly tails.

Not exact matches

The braincase is far more rounded and gracile than that of any ape, and the brain has a human rather than an apelike pattern (Tobias 1987).

Indeed evolution authorities Cherfas and Gribbin believe that a strong case can be made that the gracile forms are little more than varieties of extinct pygmy chimpanzees, while the robust forms are varieties of gorillas.7