Sentences with phrase «when early hominids»

Not exact matches

Famed paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey thought tools made the man, and so when he uncovered hominid bones near stone tools in Tanzania in the 1960s, he labeled the putative toolmaker Homo habilis, the earliest member of the human genus.

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.

When Whitcome's team compared the spines of one male and one female Australopithecus africanus, an early bipedal hominid that lived roughly 2 million years ago, it found differences in the number of wedged vertebrae.

When the team pieced the skeleton together, it revealed a very early hominid that walked upright, yet still retained an opposable toe, a trait commonly found in tree - climbing primates.

When the apes stand or walk upright, they look as if they stepped straight out of an artist's impression of early hominids.

More than likely early hominids were in a state of ketosis in the seasons when fruit was unavailable, and survived quite well — using stored fat for fuel and / or eating smaller animals.