Sentences with phrase «of ancient hominins»

Dr. Harmand, the lead author, says that the Lomekwi 3 artifacts show that at least one group of ancient hominin started intentionally «knapping» stones — breaking off pieces with quick, hard strikes from another stone — to make sharp tools long before previously thought.

Now, the Lomekwi artifacts show that those ideas are correct and at least one group of ancient hominin started intentionally knapping stones to make tools long before previously thought.

In the new study, Pontzer and Kozma also calculated the range of hip and leg extensions of three species of ancient hominins.

They relied on vast amounts of data available on present - day people from the 1000 Genomes Project together with the genome sequences of ancient hominins.

Each summer, archaeologist Sarah Hlubik treks rutted dirt tracks to a dry riverbed in Kenya, following, approximately, in the footsteps of ancient hominins who camped there about 1.6 million years ago.

«We pick up little fractions of a current» of ancient hominin movements, Foley says.

All the suggested anatomical and physiological adaptations can be explained by other hypotheses, which fit much better with what we actually know about the ecology of ancient hominins.

The «Cradle of Humankind» — a Unesco World Heritage Site located approximately 30 miles north of Johannesburg, South Africa — is famous for its rich and diverse deposits of ancient hominin fossils.

The fossils of the creature, named after the Rising Star cave system in which they were discovered — «naledi» means «star» in the local Sesotho language — paint the picture of an ancient hominin that possessed a mixture of human and ape - like traits.

Our ancestors mated with another species of ancient hominins, the Denisovans, on at least two occasions.

An international group of researchers sequenced a complete genome from one of the ancient hominins (human - like creatures), based on nuclear DNA extracted from a finger bone.