Sentences with phrase «than modern humans»

Rather than modern humans rapidly replacing Neanderthals, there seems to have been a more complex picture «characterised by a biological and cultural mosaic that lasted for several thousand years».
Neanderthals were generally only 12 to 14 cm (4 1/2 — 5 1/2 in) shorter than modern humans, contrary to a common view of them as «very short» or «just over 5 feet».
Manot is thus 10,000 years older than any modern human found in Europe, and about 5 - 10,000 years younger than the point when geneticists predict the appearance of our direct ancestors in Africa.
The 1918 virus (r1918) activated many more mouse genes involved in the immune system than a modern human flu virus (Tx91) and two hybrids between a modern virus and the 1918 strain.
Similar in size and weight to a modern human, and with humanlike hands and feet, the new species has a braincase more similar in size to earlier ancestors living two million to four million years ago, as well as shoulders, pelvis, and ribcage more closely resembling earlier hominins than modern humans.
The barium levels in a Neanderthal child's molar indicate its mother stopped breastfeeding at 14 months — more than a year earlier than modern humans
The numbers represent a lower limit, as Neandertals and other extinct hominins likely had more muscle mass than modern humans.
It suggests they matured faster than modern humans, who tend to be weaned at 30 months in hunter - gatherer and agrarian societies.
It seems unbelievable, but on average Neanderthals actually had larger brains than modern humans.
«The Denisovans were spread across an extraordinarily wide [north - south] geographic and ecological zone,» says Stoneking, «wider than any hominin other than modern humans — wider than Neanderthals.»
More insightful and self - reflective than modern humans, with fantastic memories and a penchant for dreaming, the Boskops may have had «an internal mental life literally beyond anything we can imagine.»
Neanderthal mothers probably needed to dedicate more resources — food and maternal care — to their infants than modern humans do.
There's no evidence that our extinct cousins were less intelligent than modern humans, finds a review of archaeological evidence
Teeth from these diminutive individuals suggest they belonged to a unique species rather than a modern human with a growth disorder, as previously suspected
DNA from Denisovans suggests they lived in Siberia for millennia and were more genetically diverse than Neandertals, but less diverse than modern humans
Among these many differences, Neanderthals were shorter and stockier, with wider pelvises and rib - cages than their modern human counterparts.
The researchers caution that it's impossible to draw broad conclusions about Neandertal life histories from this one sample, such as whether Neandertals weaned their children earlier or later than modern humans who lived at the same time, or whether Neandertal children grew up faster, as some earlier studies have suggested — questions that could heavily bear on why Neandertals could not keep up with modern humans in the survival sweepstakes.
Although Neanderthals had broader bodies than modern humans, he added, their brain to overall body size ratio was still larger than that of our species.
Neanderthals were brainier than modern humans, and new research helps to explain how these early hominids evolved so much brain power.
Evidence suggests that the Neanderthal body shape was shorter and stockier than modern humans, and they had thick, strong bones.
That ice core record now extends back 800,000 years, which is about 4x longer than modern humans have existed.
Neanderthals were generally more massive but shorter than modern humans.
Scientists have found the first major evidence that Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, created the world's oldest known cave paintings — suggesting they may have had an artistic sense similar to our own.
From this study [subscription required], Zollikofer concludes that Neanderthal mothers may have had their first child, on average, when they were a year or two older than modern humans and that their time between pregnancies was probably longer.
For example, these indicate that Neanderthals had more prominent visual systems than modern humans.
Scientists have found the first major evidence that Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, created the world's oldest known cave paintings.
Scientists have found the first major evidence that Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, created the world's oldest known cave paintings - suggesting they may have had an artistic sense similar to our own.
And, it is certainly not true that H. erectus has «an appropriately smaller head (and brain size)» than modern humans.
Neanderthals were stockier and shorter than modern humans, with no chin and backwards sloping foreheads.
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