Sentences with phrase «new hominin»
A new study links the emergence of new hominin species, expanding brain capacity and early human migration with the appearance of deep freshwater lakes
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The recent study published in the journal PloS ONE by Susanne Shultz of Manchester University and me statistically links for the first time the emergence of new hominin species, expanding brain capacity, and the movement out of Africa to the appearance and disappearance of deep freshwater lakes (confirming the original work by Martin Trauth and myself).
The findings of the study will be very useful in interpreting new hominin fossil finds, and looking at what the real drivers of human evolution were.
«The study tells us that there are still new hominin finds waiting to be made,» Polly said.
The partial jaw of new hominin Australopithecus deyiremeda (top) was found about 20 miles from the famous «Lucy» fossils by paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile - Selassie.
And Raymond Dart, an anthropologist at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, earned himself an academic mauling for placing his discovery in a brand new hominin category he named Australopithecus («southern ape»).
They describe 1550 fossils representing more than 15 ancient members of a strange new hominin species, which they named Homo naledi.
«I predict that when new hominin fossils from So'a are found from the 1 million year horizon, they'll already be small - bodied and more primitive that H. erectus,» says William Jungers at Stony Brook University in New York.
New hominins arose — members of our own genus, Homo.
«In recent decades, many new hominin fossils were discovered and considered to be the ancestors of humans,» said Ajit Varki, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
When mtDNA from chimpanzees and bonobos was added to the mix, the researchers were able to estimate that the new hominin had shared a common ancestor with Neandertals and modern humans about 1 million years ago.
Other paleontologists have praised the discovery but are divided on the issue of how to classify the new hominin.
Michael Hammer, a geneticist at the University of Arizona, and his colleagues have found hints of a new hominin by looking at the DNA of Africans.
The new hominin has left its traces in the genome of a Denisovan, an extinct hominin known to exist from a finger bone and two teeth found in a Siberian cave.
The new hominin has been identified from jaw and tooth specimens.
eLife has published papers on topics as diverse as paleoproteomics, ancient insects and the discovery of a new hominin species.
In fact, it is fairly well accepted that H. floresiensis is a new hominin species.
«Further fieldwork in sediment layers dating 3.3 - 2.6 million years ago is needed to verify that this site in Kenya reflects the emergence of a new hominin (early proto - human) behavior and is not an isolated incidence,» Hovers said.
A new hominin from the Basal Member of the Hadar Formation, Dikika, Ethiopia, and its geological context.
Anatomical features of this new hominin found in South Africa are a mixture of those of Australopithecus with other Homospecies, combined with several features not known in any hominin species.