Sentences with phrase «other early hominin»

Why did Neandertals differentiate so quickly from other early hominins?

«The most important thing is that the diet of A. sediba was different from the diet of other early hominins.»

Not exact matches

The skeleton, along with others of the species found so far only at Malapa, are responsible for setting off a new golden age of early hominin fossil discovery in South Africa.

In the past year, we've learned that early Homo sapiens interbred with other hominins — and it's forcing us to rethink our family tree

Collins says he's also excited about other teams producing paleoproteomic studies on cave art: The research can help us understand how early hominins created paints by adding binding agents to ochre and other material, which hints at their cognitive process.

Perhaps because early humans could not easily breed with other hominins, this would have caused an evolutionary pressure to shun those we saw as almost human.

Although other features of their anatomy still looked primitive, the Jebel Irhoud hominins should be considered the earliest known members of our species, say Hublin and his colleagues.

Once early hominins had boosted their metabolism and grown bigger brains, he says, natural selection would have favored not only fatter individuals, but also smaller guts and other energy - saving adaptations, such as cooking and efficient walking.

Checking the types of animal bones at other early Homo fossil sites out of Africa could show whether the mix of prey species changed when hominins colonized a new site, supporting a «naïve prey» effect.

Although other features of their anatomy still looked primitive, the Jebel Irhoud hominins should be considered the earliest known members of our species, they say.

The researchers have so far found no remains of early humans, stone tools or other signs of occupation, but they think that Neanderthals made the structures, because no other hominins are known in western Europe at that time.

Our evolving chemical signature, they suggest, allowed us to outcompete other apes and early hominins, referring to the numerous humanlike species that arose after our split with chimpanzees over six million years ago.

But researchers have been uncovering tantalizing clues that some other, earlier species of hominin, distant cousins, if you will, might have figured it out.

Over the last few decades, however, as subsequent discoveries pushed back the date for the earliest stone tools to 2.6 million years ago (Ma) and the earliest fossils attributable to early Homo to only 2.4 - 2.3 Ma, there has been increasing openness to the possibility of tool manufacture before 2.6 Ma and by hominins other than Homo.