Sentences with phrase «of human genus»

Fossils found in an underground cave in South Africa may be from a previously unknown species of the human genus, Homo.

Now, archaeologist Paul Kozowyk of Leiden University in the Netherlands and colleagues have re-created the methods that these extinct members of the human genus could have used to produce tar.

H. naledi achieved worldwide acclaim in 2015 as a possibly pivotal player in the evolution of the human genus, Homo.

Writing in Nature in 1964, the prominent paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey connected the tools with what he said was the first member of the human genus, Homo habilis, or «handy man.»

Famed paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey thought tools made the man, and so when he uncovered hominid bones near stone tools in Tanzania in the 1960s, he labeled the putative toolmaker Homo habilis, the earliest member of the human genus.

A piece of fossilized jaw discovered at Ledi - Geraru, Ethiopia, pushes back the date when the first members of the human genus evolved by 400,000 years.

A series of fossil discoveries offered potentially important insights into the origins of the human genus, Homo.

ANCIENT MOUTHFUL Researchers who discovered and analyzed a nearly complete set of 2 - million - year - old fossil teeth from a lower jaw suspect that the East African find comes from an early member of the human genus, Homo habilis.

When I write about human nature, I use the 99 % of human genus history as a baseline.

Not exact matches

«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

Generic hermeneutics «attends to universal structures such as the fundamental ontology of the human being or a general metaphysical scheme, and sees a specific historical faith as the exemplification of these generic (genus - related) structures and as translatable into them» (EM 58).

Indeed all these ideas do become without meaning if the human person, the «I,» who is first of all concerned, is looked at from without, if the «I» is described as one can describe in general propositions the nature of a human being; if, as usually results, the individual man is regarded as a specimen of the genus homo.

Whitehead's discussion of subhuman actual entities follows from the principles discussed above, viz., that there is only one genus of actual entities, that one's present experience constitutes the standard for defining actuality, and that subhuman actualities can be conceived in terms of the primary elements in human experience.

The speculation that it was in a «section on preaching to the «half breeds» / Samaritans» might be some handy way someone sections off that section of the book, but to assume every incident within a certain part of scripture is there like a Science book identifying the phylum and genus of an animal, that is, that everything mentioned under the Raccoon Family is in the Raccoon Family (the ring - tail cat, kinkajou, coatimundi... three other members of the raccoon family), is an assumption that does not seem to apply to the Bible and how it is written... it is more human, and living, and not sterile, everything in its tight little unmovable section, etc..

With the evolution of the genus Homo, our ancestors became distinctly human.

«Conventional wisdom in human evolutionary studies since has supposed that the origins of knapping stone tools was linked to the emergence of the genus Homo, and this technological development was tied to climate change and the spread of savannah grasslands,» says Dr. Lewis, a Research Assistant Professor at TBI.

The remains, alongside a digital reconstruction of a damaged fossil from a key early - human species, point to an evolutionary explosion at the dawn of our genus, Homo.

Today, he would be delighted to learn we have found fossils not only from the first two phases of human evolution, but also within our own genus, Homo.

The other derives from reports of intergroup fighting among hunter - gatherers; our ancestors lived as hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo genus until the Neolithic era, when humans began settling down to cultivate crops and breed animals, and some scattered groups still live that way.

As a result, there is an immense temptation to see humans as the acme of an epic evolutionary project, and to downplay the diversity our genus once displayed.

The newly discovered viruses appeared in every family or genus of RNA virus associated with vertebrate infection, including those containing human pathogens such as influenza virus.

Malaria, a scourge on human society that still kills more than 400,000 people a year, is often thought to be of more modern origin — ranging from 15,000 to 8 million years old, caused primarily by one genus of protozoa, Plasmodium, and spread by anopheline mosquitoes.

Researchers have decoded the chemistry of the first of a wealth of unique compounds produced by a new genus of bacteria that dwells in deep - ocean sediments, and they have found it to be a potent inhibitor of human cancers in lab experiments.

While developing his test, which assigns Scoville heat units to the various species of the genus Capsicum, the American pharmacist (and presumed spiciness fan) realized the most sensitive instrument at his disposal was the human tongue.

Fossils of a human species new to science could be the direct ancestor of our genus, Homo.

A different take comes from William H. Kimbel, director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, who argues on the basis of the advanced features of the face and pelvis that the new fossils «probably belong in the Homo genus.»

The first members of our genus that looked like us, H. erectus stood about as tall as modern humans, with brains that weighed around 900 grams.

Although the fossils are still undated, making it hard to know where they sit in the human family tree, they already reveal a profoundly different way to be a member of our genus Homo.

This is the famous site of Dmanisi, Georgia, which offers an unparalleled glimpse into a harsh early chapter in human evolution, when primitive members of our genus Homo struggled to survive in a new land far north of their ancestors» African home, braving winters without clothes or fire and competing with fierce carnivores for meat.

Candida is a genus of yeasts and the most common cause of diverse human fungal infections worldwide.

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) and extinct species including Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Homo naledi are part of the Homo genus.

A new study from the George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology (CASHP) found that whereas brain size evolved at different rates for different species, especially during the evolution of Homo, the genus that includes humans, chewing teeth tended to evolve at more similar rates.

The only exceptions are two species of the genus Eulemur that also live on the Comoros Islands, where they probably have been introduced by humans.

Within the class Mammalia and the order Primates, humans, other members of the genus Homo (such as Neanderthals) and our closest ancestors, Australopithecus and Ardipithecus, fell into family Hominidae.

According to paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his colleagues, who unearthed and analyzed the remains, they represent a new species of human — Homo naledi, for «star» in the local Sotho language — that could overturn some deeply entrenched ideas about the origin and evolution of our genus, Homo.

«Previous research has shown that Wolbachia — a genus of bacteria that live inside mosquitoes — render mosquitoes resistant to pathogen infection, thereby preventing the mosquitoes from infecting humans with the pathogens,» said Jason Rasgon, associate professor of entomology, Penn State.

Researchers report preliminary evidence that CoVs in bats in Latin America were less likely than CoVs in Africa and Asia to «jump» outside their genus or family, potentially a sign of relatively lower risk of bat - to - human transmission on that continent.

The current study also describes the first observation of the genera Soehngenia detected within a sample originating from a human, in this instance urine, seen in four of the subjects, male (n = 1) and female (n = 3).

Though its physical features are closer to human than other australopithecines, A. sediba is hundreds of thousands of years younger than the oldest fossils assigned to the genus Homo, meaning it is unlikely to be our direct ancestor.

And then at the same time, when they were looking at the pelvis, and this caused a big stir at the meeting, so there's been this idea that Lucy's species, you know, the changes that you get in the pelvis from the last common ancestor of humans and chimps were to, sort of, make us good at upright walking; and then further changes to the pelvis that you see in the evolution of our genus which will accommodate babies with larger brains.

Now the weird thing about sediba is, it has a very human like pelvis but it has a tiny brain, so obviously something, some kind of other selective force is acting on the pelvis that has nothing to do with the expansion of brain size that you see in our genus.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), have created the first comprehensive, cross-species genomic comparison of all 20 known species of Leptospira, a bacterial genus that can cause disease and death in livestock and other domesticated mammals, wildlife and humans.

Therefore, LB1 offers the most complete glimpse of a bipedal hominin foot that lacks the full suite of derived features characteristic of modern humans and whose mosaic design may be primitive for the genus Homo.

Conventional wisdom in human evolutionary studies since then has supposed that the origins of knapping stone tools by our ancestors was linked to the emergence of the genus Homo and that this technological development was tied to climate change and the spread of savanna grasslands.

Neanderthals shared Europe with a mysterious member of our genus that may represent an entirely new species of human, suggests a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Human Evoluhuman, suggests a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Human EvoluHuman Evolution.

The earliest known stone toolkit could write a whole new chapter in the book of human evolution, especially since the tools were not even made by our genus.

As he wrote in his published commentary, «While many have concentrated on East Africa as the key and perhaps sole region for the origins of the genus Homo, the continuing surprises emerging from further south remind us that Africa is a huge continent that even now is largely unexplored for its early human fossils.»

If additional evidence is found to support the claims, however, this could mean that anatomically modern humans were not the first members of the genus Homo to arrive in the New World.

The Human Fossils Record: Craniodental Morphology of Early Hominids (Genera Australopithecus, Paranthropus, Orrorin) and Overview.

Homo rudolfensis may be the first member of the genus Homo on a path to modern humans, or it may be a more Homo — like australopithecine with no direct bearing on the evolution of H. sapiens.