hominid

How To Use hominid In A Sentence

• The hominoid (please note, not hominid) body, found in the Georgia woods, is now in a secure location, under armed guard, and set to be examined by a battery of academic scholars, skeptical scientists, Bigfoot researchers, and debunking writers. Boing Boing
• As you might have guessed we are not talking about an all-too-human Dana Plato, Todd Bridges or Corey-of-your-choice, but a fellow member of our family Hominidae who diverged from our species 6 million years ago. Warren Holstein: Monkey Business: Travis the Celebrity Chimpanzee Attacks!!!
• That means that, on the strict taxonomic level, chimps and gorillas are hominids.
• A big-jawed and relatively small-brained hominid known as Paranthropus consumed mainly nuts and other hard foods, causing it to die out as these resources became scarce in African habitats.
• The subtlety of the fragmentary relics of ancient hominid fossil evidence was astonishing.
• It was only after hominids began making butchering tools out of stones and got a steady supply of meat from carcasses that the brain began to expand.
• An opposing camp argues that bipedalism is simply the most energy-efficient way for a hominid to get around on a flat surface.
• To many paleoanthropologists, Chad is somewhat off the beaten path for hominid evolution, when compared with the famous fossil troves of southern and eastern Africa.
• Some will come as a surprise, like the early small-brained bipedal hominids.
• Then we use the dating of a recently discovered hominid fossil as a calibration point.