Sentences with phrase «old hominid»

The fossil remains of a 3.2 million years old hominid skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia (November 24th).

A 790,000 - year - old hominid settlement in northern Israel, excavated by archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, appears to have been divided into distinct functional spaces, with a hearthside food preparation area and a spot dedicated to flint toolmaking.

Director of the Chinese archaeological site of Zhoukoudian near Beijing, Jia helped unearth 45 fossils of Homo erectus, a 1.8 - million - year - old hominid that may be a human ancestor.

But an international team of scientists from the U.S., Germany and Turkey report this week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology that it found evidence of the disease in a 500,000 - year - old hominid fossil unearthed in western Turkey.

Last week, the remains of Ardi — a 4.4 - million - year - old hominid — were finally revealed to the world.

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.

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

They are discovering signs of healed wounds, of toothless old hominids who must have been cared for by others.

Fossils are just one piece of the puzzle at the oldest hominid site outside Africa.

But in 2013, ultramodern DNA extraction and sequencing techniques enabled researchers to access ancient genetic codes and translate their evolutionary tales: Researchers in Denmark reconstructed a record - breaking 700,000 - year - old horse genome, and geneticists in Germany began parsing the DNA of 400,000 - year - old hominids.

Then the scientists noticed the ridge in a pitted, yellowed skull of our 2 - million - year - old relative Homo erectus — but not in older hominids known as australopithecines, who walked the earth as far back as 4.4 million years ago.

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.

Deocampo recently came upon something very similar near Olduvai Gorge, where some of the oldest hominid fossils have been found.

And although she was among the oldest hominids known when she was discovered, there are now putative human ancestors dating back as far as seven million years ago.

It's one of the oldest hominid specimens ever found.

And in 2000, Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut from the College de France and a team from the Community Museums of Kenya unearthed one of the oldest hominids to date.

'' [Adrienne] Zihlman compares the pygmy chimpanzee to «Lucy,» one of the oldest hominid fossils known and finds the similarities striking.

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.

A 12 - million - year - old fossil hominid from Spain provides the strongest evidence yet for this idea.

Gibbons focuses on the people who hunt and find fossils like the 3.5 - million - year - old australopithecine Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, and the hominid skull Toumaï, which was found in Chad in 2001 and dates from 6 million to 7 million years old — close to the time when our lineage split from that of chimpanzees.

Another shock came last year when Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Middle Awash Team unveiled Ardipithecus ramidus («Ardi»), a 4.4 million - year - old fossil female hominid.

Being anthropocentric, it would be difficult not to be moved by the images of the hominid footprints found by Andrew Hill at Laetoli in Tanzania, estimated at 3.6 million years old.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

MARY and LOUIS LEAKEY, who married in 1936, unearthed a number of important hominid fossils, including 2 - million - year - old Homo habilis, or «handy man.»

The find comes hot on the heels of the report of 6 - million - year - old bones found in Kenya's Tugen Hills, also hailed by their discoverers as belonging to the earliest known hominid (ScienceNOW, 22 February).

One display case contains the casts of an array of hominid skulls: the robust, massive - jawed 1.6 - million - year - old Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans, South Africa; the flat - faced 1.7 - million - year - old Paranthropus boisei from East Turkana, Kenya; the tiny skull and fossilized brain of the 2.5 - million - year - old Taung child, or Australopithecus africanus, found at Sterkfontein, South Africa.

Afar, Ethiopia The Afar region, a low - lying spot in northern Ethiopia, is home to two important anthropological discoveries: the famous hominid fossil Lucy and the world's oldest stone tools.

Citing the discovery in the 1990s of 1.7 - million - year - old bones in the Caucasus region of Georgia, archaeologists had proposed that the first hominid migrants from Africa established themselves in the Near East and then moved only slowly outward toward Asia and Europe.

Thousands of hominid fossils up to 800,000 years old had been previously found there, including some bearing cut marks indicative of cannibalism.

Ardi's hip arrangement doesn't appear in two later fossil hominids, including the famous partial skeleton known as Lucy, a 3.2 - million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis.

When paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged of the Max Planck Institute in Germany first saw what appeared to be tiny hominid remains encased in 3.3 - million - year - old sandstone in northern Ethiopia — just miles from where the famous Lucy skeleton was found 32 years earlier — he knew he had found something special.

A team led by Haile - Selassie discovered remains of a 5.8 - million - to 5.6 - million - year - old East African hominid, Ardipithecus kadabba (SN: 3/6/04, p. 148).

kadabba, making it the oldest known hominid.

The process of revising textbooks — and reminding old - guard researchers of the change — takes time, which is why you may still see hominid referring to humans and our closest kin.

Hominids get older as the years go by.

The co-author on the paper, Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy, is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Kent State University, well known for his reconstructions of the socioecology and locomotor behavior of early hominids such as «Ardi» (Ardipithecus ramidus, 4.4 million years old) and «Lucy» (Australopithecus afarensis, 3.2 million years old).

Almost a million years older than any hominid remains found in Europe, they are forcing scholars to rethink not only what constitutes an early human but how those early humans left Africa and peopled the globe.

GENE BANK Scientists extracted the oldest known hominid DNA from this 400,000 - year - old leg bone excavated in a Spanish cave.

University of Arkansas anthropologist Mike Plavcan recently reexamined fossils of one of our earliest bipedal ancestors, the 4 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis, and found hominids may not have been as marriage minded as previously thought.

These heavy - jawed hominids, presumed to be human ancestors, arose in Africa about 4 million years ago and include the famous 3.5 - million - year - old skeleton named Lucy.

Third, and perhaps most surprising, the skull is nearly twice as old as any other hominid skull ever uncovered.

The fossil skull found, nicknamed Toumai is as old as any hominid fossil found to date, yet its features appear much more human - like than those of other contenders for title of human ancestor.

Tattersall said, «Paleoanthropologists are having a hard time letting go of the old idea that human evolution was a linear process, but fossils like this one from Dmanisi are making it ever clearer that hominid history has been one of diversity and evolutionary experimentation with the hominid potential.»

«Lucy,» the 3.2 - million - year - old skeleton of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis (left) and «Neo,» a skeleton of Homo naledi (right) that was dated as being roughly 250,000 years old.

The oldest known hominid; it shares many features with both apes and humans but is thought to be bipedal.

The oldest evidence of fire use by hominids is around 1 million years ago.

We have seen many classic arcade games from the past like Pac - Man and Rush «N Attack, as well as not - so - old but just - as - great ones like Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Alien Hominid.

Table of Contents 1 Lighting Out 2 The Mother of the World 3 Up and Down the Nile 4 The Dervishes of Omdurman 5 The Osama Road to Nubia 6 The Djibouti Line to Harar 7 The Longest Road in Africa 8 Figawi Safari on the Bandit Road 9 Rift Valley Days 10 Old Friends in Bat Valley 11 The MV Umoja Across Lake Victoria 12 The Bush Train to Dar es Salaam 13 The Kilimanjaro Express to Mbeya 14 Through the Outposts of the Plateau 15 The Back Road to Soche Hill School 16 River Safari to the Coast 17 Invading Drummond's Farm 18 The Bush Border Bus to South Africa 19 The Hominids of Johannesburg 20 The Wild Things at Mala Mala 21 Faith, Hope, and Charity on the Limpopo Line 22 The Trans - Karoo Express to Cape Town 23 Blue Train Blues

I might have stopped to kick off my flip - flops and feel the cool granular earth between my toes or watch the leaf - cutter ants in their regimented march to and from the nest, both inside my body and out of it at the same time, a female hominid of breeding age bent over in the naturalist's trance and wondering if this earth, the old one, the original one, would still be her home in a month's time.