Sentences with phrase «new hominid»

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

It has not been shown to be significantly different from erectus to require the designation of a new hominid species, and it has not been shown to be closer to modern humans morphologically as has been claimed by some.

Remains of the new hominid were recovered in November 2013 and March 2014.

The recent discovery of a fascinating new hominid species in the central African country of Chad rocks the foundation of the human family tree as we know it.

Leakey and her colleagues call the new hominid Australopithecus anamensis.

Berger thinks Karabo and an adult female found nearby represent a new hominid species, Australopithecus sediba, that may have been the first to walk upright the way modern humans do.

Not exact matches

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

Every day, new fossil finds are reported — the first insect, the oldest hominid, the first sauropod dinosaur, an Eocene whale with legs — and so it goes on.

Groove patterns on the surface of modern chimpanzee brains throw a monkey wrench into proposals that some ancient southern African hominids evolved humanlike brain characteristics, a new study suggests.

Famous footprints of nearly 3.7 - million - year - old hominids, found in 1976 at Tanzania's Laetoli site, now have sizable new neighbors.

New research suggests that the DNA may not come from Neandertals or Denisovans, but from a third, previously unknown extinct hominid.

A suite of animals that evolved in Eurasia, Australia and the Americas without the risk of predation from tool - using, fire - making, group - living hominids were suddenly faced with a new threat.

Perhaps hominids used these stones to break bones, but the new study doesn't rule out other possibilities, such as trampling by animals at locations where the bones may have originated, he says.

Stone Age hominid populations may have reached «what now seems to be a not - so - new New World,» Hovers writnew New World,» Hovers writNew World,» Hovers writes.

«This study represents the most rigorous analysis to date of samples suspected to derive from anomalous or mythical «hominid» - like creatures,» Lindqvist and her co-authors write in their new paper.

Most scientists think Africa was the birthplace of hominids, but new research suggests it could have been Europe.

New evidence suggests that the ASPM gene may have contributed to brain expansion in hominids.

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

The 3.5 - million - year - old hominids appeared as models in an exhibit that had just opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; the replicas were based, in part, on fossilized footprints preserved in volcanic ash at Laetoli, Tanzania, which showed unequivocally that these creatures had walked upright.

But so far this year, field biologists have turned up new species from two branches of primates, as well as new fossils of what may have been the first hominid.

New discoveries, such as «Lucy» the fossil hominid, were rewriting the story of human origins.

Their studies of the forest chimpanzees of West Africa suggest that for explanations of the physical and social characteristics of our earliest hominid forbears we should look at forests and woodland, not bush and grassland (New Scientist, Science, 19 May 1990).

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.

New age estimates for previously discovered fossils position Graecopithecus as potentially the earliest known hominid, the investigators suggest.

BLAST FROM THE PAST A new permanet gallery at London's Natural History Museum guides visitors through hominid history.

The fossil's humanlike face and teeth and chimp - size cranium are so different from any other known hominid that Brunet and his team have denominated it a new species: Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

«The new fossils superbly document the link between modern whales and their land - based forebears,» he concludes, «and should take their place among other famous «intermediates,» such as the most primitive bird, Archaeopteryx, and the early hominid Australopithecus.

Which leads to the biggest puzzle for Lordkipanidze: Anthropologists have always assumed small - brained hominids lacked enough intelligence to create the tools they'd need to fan out from their African homeland and survive in new habitats.

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).

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Neanderthals were brainier than modern humans, and new research helps to explain how these early hominids evolved so much brain power.

The new fossils resemble in part an equally ancient East African hominid, says Fred Spoor.

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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.