Sentences with phrase «with braincase»

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.