Sentences with phrase «uncrushed braincase»

Their braincase (shown below in blue) also seemed to fall somewhere between what one might expect in an ancient human ancestor and a modern human, albeit slightly more similar to those of our archaic ancestors.

CT scans, used to produce these reconstructions, reveal a modern - looking face (left) but a braincase similar to older, now extinct Homo species (right).

The study casts doubt on a 2014 paper by Falk that was based on casts of the inside of fossil braincases, called endocasts, which preserve impressions of these surface features.

«Also, the fact that the bones of the braincase aren't fully fused means that this particular fossil is that of an individual that is not fully grown yet.

Some anatomical studies indicated that T. rex could not run quickly, while an examination of the creature's braincase showed it had an outsize olfactory system.

In doing so, numerous measuring points in a dense array were located on the virtual representation of Manot and on several hundreds of other braincases to capture differences and similarities.

The traditional methods of anthropology permit to draw only a coarse picture with regard to classification if it comes to a partial braincase which features mainly smooth curvatures.

The most spectacular finding was made on an elevated shelf within a small chamber of the cave: a very well preserved «calotte,» hence the upper part of a braincase.

The shape of the brain case was the first to change: the new skull has a braincase shaped like a typical H. erectus despite its small size.

In some cases, they only eat the brain, and we've found that swabbing along the edges of the braincase gives us the best results for extracting DNA,» Wheat said.

He says there are at least 30 complete braincases known from H. erectus.

Until recently, if a team of researchers found an intact braincase, they were limited in what they could learn unless they cut the fossil open.

Further studies of casts of the inner braincase, which show impressions from surface features of the brain, may help clarify N. alesi's position in ape evolution, Nengo says.

When paleoanthropologist Lee Berger unearthed a fossil near Johannesburg, South Africa, it seemed to be a jumble of parts: a braincase similar in size to that of an Australopithecus africanus, a Homo erectus pelvis, and the arms of a Miocene ape.

He hit pay dirt: His team found a bone bed containing at least three Teleocrater individuals, including a braincase and jawbone.

Nor do people with Down syndrome share LB1's other distinctive features, such as her projecting midface and thick braincase walls.

The inside surface of Jebel Irhoud braincases, which were long and low, has a distinctive shape that perhaps represents an early evolutionary step toward later humans» rounded skullcaps, suggests paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer.

The researchers» skull samples showed Neandertal features present in the face and teeth, but not elsewhere; the nearby braincase, for example, still showed features associated with more primitive hominins.

Our braincase is massive.

To create a virtual version of the hobbit brain, Falk's colleague, engineer Kirk Smith, of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St. Louis, used three - dimensional CAT scans that Morwood's team had taken of its fossilized skull and braincase.

Today, even upper - latitude, «wolfish» varieties like huskies have shorter, wider snouts, and shorter braincases, than wolves — traits typical of domestication syndrome.

The short snout and wide braincase of a canid skull (top) found in Belgium's Goyet Cave, in comparison with two ancient wolves found in nearby caves (middle, bottom), led scientists to claim the Goyet bones are from a 36,000 - year - old dog.

«Had Skull 5 been found as an isolated braincase and an isolated face, these parts may have been attributed to distinct species,» says Christoph Zollikofer, a University of Zürich anthropologist and author on the paper published in October.

After sorting through hundreds of bones excavated by paleontologists Suresh Srivastava and Ashok Sahni during a 1983 expedition in the Narmada River valley in western India, Sereno and Wilson realized they were looking at the braincase, parts of a hip, a vertebra, and a tailbone of a distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex.

The hobbit stood about 1 metre tall and the single skull found so far has a braincase no larger than a chimpanzee's.

But there's also another part of Timurlengia's skeleton that we were able to study: the braincase, the fused bones at the back of the skull that surround the brain, ear, and sinuses.

Maéva Orliac of Montpellier University, France, and colleagues say that a new fossil cast of its braincase shows Hyopsodus had a large inferior colliculus, a brain region enlarged in echolocating animals (PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0030000).

Neanderthals were adapted to the cold, as shown by their large braincases, short but robust builds, and large noses â $» traits selected by nature in cold climates, as observed in modern sub-arctic populations.

The force you generate can cause it to swirl around and shift its shape inside the braincase.

Neubauer considers it unlikely that the gradual evolution of smaller faces with the same general skull shape altered braincase shapes.

Using CT scans of ancient and modern human skulls, the researchers created digital brain reconstructions, based on the shape of the inner surface of each skull's braincase.

In general, though, the faces of H. sapiens got smaller over time, a skull change that Zollikofer contends critically influenced the evolution of rounded braincases described in the new report.

When Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki at Uppsala University in Sweden and his colleagues studied three S. opolensis braincases, they found that two bony projections near the back, called paroccipital processes, were orientated in the same way as in birds (Historical Biology, doi.org/cjt4).

The mouse - size creature's relatively large braincase and short snout clearly mark it as a primate, says Hu, who made the discovery in collaboration with Xijun Ni and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

The skull displays a modern - looking face, left, combined with a braincase, right, shaped like those of older, now - extinct Homo species.

From the Middle Pleistocene eastern Eurasians, the fossils had a low, broad braincase rounding onto the inferior skull, while there were two features from western Eurasian Neanderthals: a detailed rear arrangement and semicircular canal configuration.

In fact, the face and palate of 1470 are so large that until the braincase was assembled, Richard Leakey thought, judging from the facial bones, that 1470 was a robust australopithecine (Walker and Shipman 1996).

Of particular interest to him are the sizes of their braincases.

The braincase is far more rounded and gracile than that of any ape, and the brain has a human rather than an apelike pattern (Tobias 1987).

One nearly complete skull unearthed at Dali in Shaanxi province and dated to 250,000 years ago, has a bigger braincase, a shorter face and a lower cheekbone than most H. heidelbergensis specimens3, suggesting that the species was more advanced.

But it also resembles H. sapiens, with its smaller teeth and bigger braincase.

Moreover, unlike modern humans with low brain sizes, these skulls are very robust, with flattened braincases and large brow ridges.

«We think that being able to break this constraint - letting the beak evolve independently from the braincase, may have been a key factor in enabling the rapid and explosive evolution of the thousands of species of songbirds such as Darwin's finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers».

The absolute in brain size, however, caused changes in the brain case; for instance, the braincase is higher than in Homo habilis, but lower than in later hominin species.

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.