Sentences with phrase «unknown human species»

Based on analyses of LB1 and some other, more fragmentary remains, the discovery team concluded that the specimens belonged to a previously unknown human species, Homo floresiensis, that lived as recently as 12,000 years ago [see «The Littlest Human,» by Kate Wong; Scientific American, February 2005].

The team proposed that LB1 and the other fragmentary remains they recovered represent a previously unknown human species, Homo floresiensis.

The results suggest the thigh bone belonged to a previously unknown human species — perhaps even a missing link between the Neanderthals and their mysterious cousins the Denisovans.

Not exact matches

Often they argue that some of these species may have great value for human beings, providing some now unknown medicine, for example.

I think it is simply fear of the unknown for the human species.

Impressions left by a large claw on the innermost toe on the dinosaur's front foot (the analog of the human thumb) indicate that the still - unknown species was located near the base of the sauropod family tree, and the sizes of the footprints — in some cases 70 centimeters across — suggest that the behemoths grew to reach 15 meters in length and weighed up to 10 metric tons, the researchers report online today in the Scottish Journal of Geology.

We see A. aegypti as the vector of human diseases, but the global ecological significance of the species is unknown.

The last big find was made by Berger in 2008: at nearby Malapa, he discovered two partial skeletons of a previously unknown species with a strange mix of apelike and human features — the 2 - million - year - old Australopithecus sediba.

That is the message from a strange Indonesian fossil belonging to a previously unknown species of the human family: Homo floresiensis, the hobbit people.

Exactly which species of early human left the trails is unknown because no human remains have turned up at the site.

«In the current environment of human - caused environmental disturbance and degradation, the discovery of four previously unknown species that are relatively large in size is phenomenal,» he said.

It is unknown which human - like species made these sophisticated artefacts, but the finding that Ust» - Ishim man was in Siberia at this time means that it could have been modern humans, he says.

Exactly when Blatella germanica threw in its lot with humans is unknown, though it is generally thought to be African in origin and may initially have inhabited caves, as many modern roach species do.

Reports went viral over the weekend that Herbert Lutz at the Museum of Natural History in Mainz, Germany, had discovered a previously unknown European species of ape that had human - like teeth millions of years before African species did.

Inspired by the depth of human ignorance about the underwater realm, census researchers have already found what they believe are more than 5,000 previously unknown marine species.

«Today, rapidly falling costs means that high throughput sequencing projects are revealing the entire gene sequences of ever more species, but the biological functions of most of these genes remain unknown,» said Dr. Olivier Lichtarge, professor of molecular and human genetics and director of the Computational and Integrative Biomedical Research Center at Baylor and senior author of the report.

An unknown hominin species that bred with early human ancestors when they migrated from Africa to Australasia has been identified through genome mapping of living humans.

Remains unearthed in 1979 in a cave in China's Guangxi Province may belong to a previously unknown, anatomically unique modern human species.

They have been detected in surface water, groundwater, wastewater and even drinking water — however, the long - term implications for non-target species such as aquatic wildlife and human health are largely unknown.

Exactly how some populations of modern humans, and some fossil hominin species, evolved complex molars with many cusps of varying sizes, while others evolved more simplified molar configurations, however, is unknown.

Could this be evidence of early humans in Greece or of an unknown human - like primate species?

Scientists around the world conducting research into what actually exists in ocean depths, as well as: the impacts of fishing and other human activities on these deep unknown spaces and species; and what types of improved management options may help to conserve these natural assets (and their contribution to planetary and human wellbeing) for the long term.

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

«Scientists believe the almost - complete fossilised skeleton belonged to a previously - unknown type of early human ancestor that may have been an intermediate stage as ape - men evolved into the first species of advanced humans,» Richard Gray wrote in the Telegraph.

Although they permit people to board their ships and allow humans to see their seven - legged forms, the language of each species is unknown to the other.

Elsewhere you also note that «the generality of [the human] pathway for other industrial species is totally unknown».

But, as Mendelson writes, that would miss the wider point revealed when putting this species» interruped story in wider context of Earth's unfolding «Anthropocene» — a span, duration as yet unknown, in which humans are the dominant driver of environmental change.