Sentences with phrase «more like apes»

They in turn stem from creatures who were much more like apes, who in turn seem to have come from monkey - like beings.

The sketch that emerges looks more like an ape - man than a person.

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Perhaps reading your own words carefully might make you seem less like a dim bulb and more like a brilliant evolved ape.

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.

However, those of us concerned to find such relationships between distinct fields should heed the cautious word of Cambridge physicist Sir Brian Pippard when he says that each field thrives by virtue of its own methods and not by aping those of others: «The fabric of knowledge has not been woven as a seamless robe but pieced together like a patchwork quilt, and we are still in the position of being able to appreciate the design in individual pieces much more clearly than the way they are put together» (Pippard, 95 - 96).

Elizabeth Scalia doubts that women should become more like men: The sexual revolution promise that women could «have it all» has always been oddly paradoxical: It encouraged women to find their best selves by aping men and conforming to traditionally male valuations of worth and....

Another possible link is a more ape - like creature that lived around 3 million to 4 million years ago: Australopithecus afarensis, which walked upright but stood only just over a metre tall and had a puny brain.

He points out that Lordkipanidze's analysis suggests even the much more ape - like hominins in the genus Australopithecus belong to the H. erectus group.

The same location has yielded other fossil signposts in the meandering path to fully modern humans, including a 4.5 million - year - old jaw of a more ape - like species, Ardipithecus ramidus.

For more than a million years their australopithecine predecessors — Lucy and her kind, who walked upright like us yet still possessed the stubby legs, tree - climbing hands and small brains of their ape forebears — had thrived in and around the continent's forests and woodlands.

Their anatomy contains bony structures that would have allowed her to walk comfortably on her palms, more like monkeys than like living apes.

Its feet functioned only partly like those of apes and much more like those of living monkeys and early apes such as Proconsul (which lived more than 15 million years ago).

ramidus is that this last common ancestor had limb proportions more like those of monkeys than apes.

At approximately 5.7 million years, they are younger than the oldest known fossil hominin, Sahelanthropus from Chad, and contemporary with Orrorin from Kenya, but more than a million years older than Ardipithecus ramidus with its ape - like feet.

A group now points out that the Hobbit's three wrist bones were shaped more like those of an ape than a human, suggesting that it did not branch off from human ancestors.

Even though early human - like species were present at the same time as the ancestors of some present day great apes, the researchers found that the evolutionary history of ancestral great ape populations was far more complex than that of humans.

«We already know that Homo habilis had brain lateralization and was more like us than like apes.

«There are numerous fossil apes, monkeys, and even more primitive fossil primates that look a bit like gibbons,» explains Christopher Gilbert of the City University of New York, a member of the team that analysed the fossil.

But in many ways, we're not like other apes: Our brains are at least three times larger, and we produce more babies in shorter intervals — both of which consume more energy.

Clues from other parts of its body — long and curved fingers, and a more ape - like shoulder joint — paint a picture of a creature that was undoubtedly bipedal but also a tree climber.

A peculiar Spanish fossil from 11.6 million years ago suggests that the ancestor of all apes might have been more like gibbons and less like great apes

Our brains produce far more dopamine in these regions than the brains of other primates like apes.

Toumaï's small canines are further proof that he was more like us than an ape.

Apes» molars are more bulbous, without sharp tips, whereas monkey molars look like two loaves of bread side by side with bladelike crests.

We discovered that the appearance of a type of more complexly shaped stone tool kit in the archaeological record marked an important cognitive shift when our ancestors started to think and act more like humans rather than apes.

Although the metatarsal robusticity sequence is human - like and the hallux is fully adducted, other intrinsic proportions and pedal features are more ape - like.

The fossils form such a neatly graded series, getting less and less ape - like and more and more human as they get closer in time to the present, that the most earnest creationist can do little more than muddy the waters by inflating and distorting the existence of points of disagreement between specialists, or trying to revive long since discredited Homo sapiens specimens once claimed to have been from extremely ancient deposits.

Matthew Tocheri, who is Canada Research Chair in Human Origins at Lakehead University, told Discovery News that the new study makes a convincing case that «australopiths were not only capable of using their hands in more human - like ways than living great apes, but also that they actually used their hands in more human - like ways.

Humans and ancient apes looked a lot alike 7 million years ago, they say, and some features of the fossil skull are more ape - like than human - like.

This find raises another question: is this foot from a member of the hominin clade or does it belong to an older, more ape like lineage?

Humans, other great apes, and gibbons, (but not more distantly related primates like baboons) can't dispose of the the waste product of purine metabolism (uric acid), and hence we're susceptible to gout when consuming carnivorous diets.

Ancient human diets, like those of our fellow great apes, largely consisted of plants, so they likely produced more base than acid in the kidneys of our ancestors.

Probably, like other great apes, they worried a lot more about social and sexual problems.

Megamind, like Shrek, appears to revolve around the assumption that there really are no more stories worth telling that haven't already been told; as such, this movie subsists upon aping superior tales of yesteryear with all of the overwrought self - awareness of writers who just recently learned the meaning of «meta» (but haven't watched nearly enough contemporary movies to realize that the tactic has already been done to death).

Performers like Andy Serkis (War for the Planet of the Apes, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) have helped pushed motion capture technology to become something much more than just using a human as a physical reference point for a digital creation.

Thomas Newman's The Iron Lady certainly had some Desplat - like moments; Korzeniowski's W.E. struck me as a more overtly emotional take on a similar classically - inclined method of writing; even some of the more suspenseful, low - key underscore from Doyle's Rise of the Planet of the Apes uses a similar sense of precise rhythmic woodwind - led movement.

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The dilemma for the apes is even more complex, especially with human - dubious lieutenants like Koba (Toby Kebbell) questioning Caesar's every decision and pushing for war.

Like the apes who discovered weaponry in «2001: A Space Odyssey,» Plainview has come upon the object that will dictate America's destiny for the next century and more.»

Much like the grim - n - gritty «Logan,» «War for the Planet of the Apes» makes more visual and emotional sense as a recombinant Western movie than a sci - fi flick.

Shooting in a 4:3 aspect ratio (apparently for practical reasons), Oram's direction is assured throughout, shifting seamlessly between genuinely shocking moments, gross - out comedy (there are certainly more prosthetic penises on display than in your average humans - behaving - like - apes movie) and surprising moments of tenderness.

He plays a performance artist who invades a black - tie dinner party while acting like an ape, and as his behavior becomes more violent the guests go from being amused to genuinely frightened, and yet no one acts to stop it.

But Reeves counterbalances a solidly world - weary cast (including Keri Russell and Kodi Schmitt - McPhee, who, as Malcolm's frail, indie - comic - reading son, could certainly have been more annoying) against some of the strongest mo - cap effects ever put on screen, allowing Kibbell and Serkis to breathe unmistakable gravity into both Koba's vengeful sadism and Caesar's sad - eyed realization that apes and humans have more in common than he'd like to admit.

But if it's competing for Best Picture next winter, it would be because the rest of the year's slate has disappointed or the Academy has proven unable to acknowledge untraditionally prestigious films, like War for the Planet of the Apes or The Big Sick, to name just two considerably more fulfilling summer releases.

However, laughing WITH it turned out to be more of the case, as Rock Star, like the band Marky Mark (Planet of the Apes, The Perfect Storm) is in, is not an in - depth look at heavy metal of the 80s, but rather it is a loving tribute made by fans for fans of the music and styles of the hard rock of yesteryear.

And though blockbusters like Wonder Woman, War for the Planet of the Apes and the delightfully rude Girls Trip sure made the sweltering weeks bearable, there's nothing we prefer doing more than turning up our collars (yes, jackets!)

Like the Audi it lags behind the best as a driver's car, but more than makes up for it with an extensive suite of driver assistance and safety functions as well S - class - aping ride quality.

«We're excited that our Comics Plus platform will become the exclusive digital venue for great Ape Entertainment Comics like Pocket God, Richie Rich, Strawberry Shortcake, the Dreamworks titles, and more,» said Michael Murphey, iVerse CEO.

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