Sentences with phrase «which hominid»

For years, scientists pondering which hominid species were capable of making tools have relied on a simple test based on anatomical traits in the human thumb.

The rational, moral and aesthetic contexts within which hominid capacities began to develop are essential and abiding dimensions of created reality.

The other question, regarding the soul, is which hominids and when?

Not exact matches

Earlier hominids did not count in Scripture's rendition because it focused on Semites, which allows for Indians in America, and Chinese in China.

A few that pop to mind are the Coconino Sandstone, the meandering / lateral channels in the Grand Canyon, the progressive order of the fossil record (complete with a pre-hominid through hominid progression), forms which bear features bridging the specially - created kinds (i.e. fish with tetrapod features, reptiles with mammalian features, reptiles with avian features, etc), the presence of anomalous morphological / genetic features (e.g. the recurrent laryngeal nerve, male nip - ples, the presence of a defunct gene for egg - yolk production in our own placental mammal genomes), etc, etc..

He imagines one group of early hominids, in one zone, who had been elevated to soul and had a direct experience of God which resulted in the subjugation of nature and matter to the spirit.

It is a fact about the nature of reality to which our ancestors gained access at some stage of hominid development.

Once one accepts the enrichment beyond the merely material of the context within which human life is lived, one is no longer restricted to the notion of Darwinian survival necessity as providing the sole engine driving hominid development.

Grilling has been around as long as mankind has had hunting and fire, and there's really no need to speculate which one of our hominid ancestors figured out that grilled meat tasted better than raw meat, but obviously someone did.

She is the author of Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa 1993, and the co-editor of Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives (1995), which includes her chapters «Beauty and the Breast: The Cultural Context of Breastfeeding in the United States,» and «A Time to Wean: The Hominid Blueprint for a Natural Age of Weaning in Modern Human Populations.»

Gibbons focuses on the people who hunt and find fossils like the 3.5 - million - year - old australopithecine Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, and the hominid skull Toumaï, which was found in Chad in 2001 and dates from 6 million to 7 million years old — close to the time when our lineage split from that of chimpanzees.

Some researchers are even producing full - length virtual skeletons to which they can attach virtual muscles and make the ancient hominids walk again.

In this inherited malady, the brain is typically just 400 cc — roughly the same size as that of the early hominid Australopithecus africanus, of which «Lucy» is the best - known specimen.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

But this should not deter you, for there are plenty more accessible contributions such as those by Coppens («Brain, locomotion, diet, and culture: how a primate, by chance, became a man»), Phillip Tobias on «The brain of the first hominid» and Rebecca Cann's chapter «Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution», which as a relative novice, I found very helpful.

The researchers argue for its hominid status partly because of its lower canine teeth, which in cross section are diamond - shaped like those of later hominids rather than V - shaped like those of apes.

A note reminds us that between 3.5 and 1.5 million years ago, at least 11 different hominid species lived in Africa — many of them (like our notorious strolling couple) members of the genus Australopithecus, which went extinct about 1.4 million years ago.

Homo ergaster («working man») is an extinct hominid species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which lived throughout eastern and southern Africa between 1.9 to 1.4 million years ago with the advent of the lower Pleistocene and the cooling of the global climate.

The 3.5 - million - year - old hominids appeared as models in an exhibit that had just opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; the replicas were based, in part, on fossilized footprints preserved in volcanic ash at Laetoli, Tanzania, which showed unequivocally that these creatures had walked upright.

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

Hominids start to use stone tools regularly, created by splitting pebbles — this starts Oldowan tradition of toolmaking, which last a million years

This contradicts the standard view, which envisages early hominids in Africa running about on dry, grassy plains in the heat of the midday sun.

IBM's megacomputer, Watson, creamed the hominid competition at the quirky, punny, idiosyncratic Jeopardy! This contest, calling on such skills as language, grammar, and wordplay, is among the most human of games — much more so than the mathematical system of chess, which IBM's Deep Blue mastered in the 1990s.

The process of revising textbooks — and reminding old - guard researchers of the change — takes time, which is why you may still see hominid referring to humans and our closest kin.

But the answer may not be as simple as one or the other: «I think that both other hominid species and our own likely have several different ways to conceptualize space, which co-exist,» notes psychologist Nora Newcombe of Temple University.

Which leads to the biggest puzzle for Lordkipanidze: Anthropologists have always assumed small - brained hominids lacked enough intelligence to create the tools they'd need to fan out from their African homeland and survive in new habitats.

He pointed out that none of the features that differentiate hominids from apes evolved in any other savanna primates, which makes it difficult to explain why humans developed them.

His team members contend that the skull's original owner — nicknamed Toumaï, which means «hope of life» in the local language — was a hominid, most likely a male.

Both hominids were about 1.2 metres tall and lightly built, with ape - sized brains and bodies resembling A. africanus, which is thought to have been a direct ancestor of humans.

Still, one can get a good idea of the quality of the book from the following table which summarizes his conclusions about the hominid fossil record:

In fact, arguably, the emergence of sentient hominids may largely be a result of the stresses of climate fluctuations following the last interglacial which ended about 114,000 years ago.

This apelike ancestor, which probably lived 5 to 11 million years ago in Africa, gave rise to two distinct lineages, one resulting in hominids — humanlike species — and the other resulting in the great ape species living today.

Every species has, or should have, a type specimen, so only if the type specimen of Homo habilis (which is Olduvai Hominid 7, or OH7 for short) is found to belong to some other species does the name Homo habilis lapse into synonymy.

The widely distributed Australian fossils include an extremely robust individual, Willandra Lakes hominid 50, which is so «primitive» that Thorne says, ``... this skull is so robust it makes the Kow Swamp ones look gracile!

The emergence of the genus Homo (H. habilis), around 2.5 million years ago, precedes the later Homo erectus species which is most likely the first hominid to leave Africa.

The results are approximate, because they depend on which formula is used, and also on brain and body size, both of which are difficult to estimate for most fossil hominids.

Take the large - brained hominid bones belonging to a species called Homo heidelbergensis, which lived in Europe and Asia around 600,000 years ago.

We therefore suggest that FOXI3 may generally be involved in dental (cusp) development within and across mammalian lineages including the hominids which are known to exhibit marked variability in the presence of lingual cusps.

Thus, every human being belongs to only one hominid species, that is, Homo sapiens, which is a Latin word that means «wise man».

Gameplay: In Castle Crashers, you start out with four playable characters (or five if you have alien hominid, in which case, he will be playable from the beginning as well) each have their own special power, and who you choose may easily change the outcome of how you fight, tho in general, you will be going left to right, killing waves of enemies that come at you, and a boss at the end.

Anyhow, going alphabetically to fill in the gaps has caused me to re-evaluate 3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures, which is a lot more fun multiple times round, and also grab the Super Soviet Missile Mastar achievement in Alien Hominid HD.

6:26 p.m. Postscript I have to note a broader point relating the clash of hominids at the heart of this movie to the Medea hypothesis of the paleontologist Peter Ward, which Ward explored in the context of human population growth in an interesting interview with Scott Thill for AlterNet.

This brings up the curious question of why such Hominids should be less astute, shall we say, than than our rodent cousins in terms of their adaptive behavior, a topic which even the former Mr. Dr. Professor Gould does not seem to address in his opus as far as we have been able to ascertain in our book club readings.

The evolution of anatomical adaptations in the hominids could not have kept pace with these abrupt climate changes, which would have occurred within the lifetime of single individuals.