Sentences with phrase «more hominid»

The evidence that he was more hominid than ape can be found in the details.

By 1905, Krapina had yielded more hominid remains than any other site known at the time.

In a January 16, 2006 article in L'Osservatore Romano, Fiorenzo Facchini states: «The spark of intelligence was lighted in one or more hominids when, where and in the ways God willed it.»

Not exact matches

It is a relatively minor matter whether God infused the transcendent capacity into a freshly made creature or an upwardly mobile hominid that had evolved through various transformations, from an amoeba to a tadpole to an assortment of amphibians and mammals until, as in the familiar diagrams and animations, it looks more or less like Carl Sagan.

Example: Cro - Magnons and Neanderthals were not 2 points in an evolutionary line, but rather two separate species of upright - walking hominids; they coexisted, but one was smarter and more dominant, and the other died off.

It is indifferent and always has been and will continue as the indomitable force that has created and destroyed more species than we can comprehend before the first reasoning hominids could ask «What am I?»

Given the recent discovery in Flores of a dwarf hominid species related to Homo erectus, it is possible that H. erectus made it to more places than we have evidence for.

Still, factors other than climate fluctuations, such as hominid population declines or surges, may also have spurred ancient tool innovations to acquire more or different types of food, cautions archaeologist Yonatan Sahle of the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Rather, they were a much more primitive hominid population, possibly Homo habilis, whose members lived in, or at least transited, Dmanisi much earlier than what our accepted chronology of human evolution indicates.

More than 500 footprints of ancient horses, rhinos, birds and other animals dotted the area around the hominid tracks.

Tappen believes the hominids, whose brains she describes as «the size of a bocce ball,» survived by adapting to a more meat - centric diet and by eating things like tree bark.

«If our interpretation is right, we're dealing with hominids that came out of Africa more than 1.8 million years ago, before the emergence of erectus,» Morwood says.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

The smart hominids survived, while the stupid ones were more likely to get eaten or freeze to death.

Rather, hominids appear to have originated and persisted within more closed, wooded habitats until the emergence of more ecologically aggressive Australopithecus.

Lovejoy believes that these hominids probably had a more bonobo - like social structure where males were more likely to cooperate than fight.

But this should not deter you, for there are plenty more accessible contributions such as those by Coppens («Brain, locomotion, diet, and culture: how a primate, by chance, became a man»), Phillip Tobias on «The brain of the first hominid» and Rebecca Cann's chapter «Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution», which as a relative novice, I found very helpful.

Critics argue that discoveries like Moyà - Solà's are more likely to reflect the quality of the fossil records in Africa and Europe than offer clues to the actual origins of hominids.

«We're now no more than a generation or two away from the emergence of an entirely new kind of hominid,» he says.

Although some researchers suspect that earlier hominids, not modern humans, made the stone tools, Marks is hopeful that future digs in Arabia, Iran, and western India will unearth still more evidence of humanity's bold, early route out of Africa.

The scientists also point out that this pattern of delayed development appears to have increased over evolutionary time, with our hominid ancestors presumably slowly gaining larger, more plastic brains relative to modern chimpanzees.

«The foot had more primitive features than other hominids we think are primitive to this.

Although the Dinaledi finds are unexpectedly young, H. naledi's ancient - looking characteristics suggest that the hominid originated near the root of the Homo genus, 2 million years ago or more, Berger and colleagues propose in the third new paper.

IBM's megacomputer, Watson, creamed the hominid competition at the quirky, punny, idiosyncratic Jeopardy! This contest, calling on such skills as language, grammar, and wordplay, is among the most human of games — much more so than the mathematical system of chess, which IBM's Deep Blue mastered in the 1990s.

The implication of this find is that many different species of hominid have walked the earth — and so our story may be more complex than previously imagined.

As hominid body size increased, it took on near - modern proportions of around 5 or 6 feet tall, and the legs grew longer relative to the arms, indicating more efficient walking and perhaps running.

11 We've been at this a long time: Charred bones and wood ash indicate that early hominids were tending the first intentional fires more than 400,000 years ago.

To learn more about the evolution of the «power squeeze» — the grip we use to hold a hammer — University of Kent anthropologist Matt Skinner compared hand and wrist bones from living and extinct hominids using 3 - D X-ray technology.

The sequencing of the human genome (ScienceNOW, 14 April 2003:) gave scientists major new insights into what makes us human: Although we share more than 98 % of our genetic code with the chimpanzee, natural selection has turned us into a very different animal than the chimps, from whom our hominid ancestors split evolutionarily some 6 million years ago (ScienceNOW, 31 August).

As the forests of Africa shrank, the theory suggested, bipedal hominids emerged who could move more freely while foraging on the expanding savanna.

Denisovans are related to the more famous hominids species, the Neanderthals.

The fossil skull found, nicknamed Toumai is as old as any hominid fossil found to date, yet its features appear much more human - like than those of other contenders for title of human ancestor.

It provides the first archaeological evidence for the existence, more than 3 million years ago, of hominid cognitive and motor skills necessary for manufacturing hard stone tools,» the team of archaeologists who reported the findings in the journal, said, in a statement released Thursday.

In addition to revealing more about these early hominids, the work could provide important insights into our own biology — whether we are related to Neanderthals, or not.

But the front of the new hominid's jaw looks more like Lucy's species, Spoor says.

More than likely early hominids were in a state of ketosis in the seasons when fruit was unavailable, and survived quite well — using stored fat for fuel and / or eating smaller animals.

Dan Paladin's unique art style remains, but Castle Crashers is a much bigger and more ambitious game than Alien Hominid.

Games like Alien Hominid and The Binding of Isaac are two examples, making a jump to consoles as a much more complete experience after wooing the masses online, and featuring new levels, content and more.

Anyhow, going alphabetically to fill in the gaps has caused me to re-evaluate 3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures, which is a lot more fun multiple times round, and also grab the Super Soviet Missile Mastar achievement in Alien Hominid HD.