How To Use Hominid In A Sentence
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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
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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!!!
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That means that, on the strict taxonomic level, chimps and gorillas are hominids.
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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.
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The subtlety of the fragmentary relics of ancient hominid fossil evidence was astonishing.
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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.
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An opposing camp argues that bipedalism is simply the most energy-efficient way for a hominid to get around on a flat surface.
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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.
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Some will come as a surprise, like the early small-brained bipedal hominids.
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Then we use the dating of a recently discovered hominid fossil as a calibration point.
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I believe that early hominids were telling that joke in prehistoric times.
Palin takes a shot at Kerry's face
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For perspective on the scale of evolutionary difference between genera, consider that modern humans and Neanderthals are different species within the same genus (Homo), while chimpanzees are our living relatives from a closely related genus (Pan), but that we share the same taxonomic family (Hominidae) with our chimp cousins.
Archive 2007-04-01
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Finding the evolutionary origin of hominids is a little like stalking big game.
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They include unique assemblages of mammal remains, notably hominid and primate records, but also bones of Elaphas planifrons, Stylohipparion libycum, Libytherium maurusium, Anacus osiris, Testudo gigans and T. emys.
Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia
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It may be possible to extract DNA from the bones of human ancestors and other hominids who died up to one million years ago, researchers believe.
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Hominidae, the mammalian family that includes modern humans and their immediately extinct ancestors, contains four genera: Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo.
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This also reminds me a bit of the legend of the orang-pendek, which is a hominid cryptid which some claims still exist in Sumatra.
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The Leakey family, who discovered the oldest hominid remains, in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, had a dig at the lake and were discovering more remnants of early man, which seemed appropriate in that atmosphere.
One From The Hart
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Think about it this way: pretend for a moment that you are a beer-bellied, slope-faced, slack-jawed, thick-necked, trailer-park-dwelling hominid from the jungles of Appalachia, with a high-school equivalency degree and career skills chiefly in plumbing and siring children.
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Among the early additions were the Pithecanthropus fossils (the so-called Java man) from a human-sized hominid with heavy brow ridges and a brain of intermediate size.
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In the intervening period there was a host of different hominid species, many of which died out.
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They concluded that movement by the protohominids into this novel dimension of behavior was importantly linked with the advent of bipedalism.
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So Gunther et al. (1992) titled a paper 'Can prosimian-like leaping be considered a preadaptation to bipedal walking in hominids'.
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
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Ken Mowbray, Sam Máeguez, and Gary Sawyer with the Poloyo hominid (Courtesy Ken Mowbray) [LARGERIMAGE] "For me," says Susan Antón of the University of Florida, who examined the fossil in July, "the skullcap is a unifying specimen because it combines characteristics seen in both the older [1.6. million years] and younger [less than 100,000 years] H. erectus groups in Southeast Asia.
Case of the Curious Cranium
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In 1973, a hominid skullcap and two stone tools were found.
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Peter Brown, a paleontologist at the University of New England in Australia, said that his examination of the premolars and lower jaws of the specimens made it almost immediately “very, very clear that this was a hominid in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
NYT - A Tiny Hominid With No Place on the Family Tree
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The site of Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has produced four superb hominid skulls ranging in size from 600 cm3 to 780 cm3.
The Panda's Thumb: Transitional Fossils Archives
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But she did not explain why the equally sweaty patas monkey did not lose its hair in the same environment, nor how the hominids could have drunk so much in a hot, dry landscape.
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Between thief and -- there was no word for what he and Warvia were now, but every hominid knew the word _thief_.
The Ringworld Throne
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However, G. blacki can be distinguished from the extant hominids by having relatively higher values for postcanine root length and surface area, both absolutely and relative to mandibular size (except for premolar root lengths of humans).
Archive 2009-02-01
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Seriously impressive brain expansion did not begin until about 2 million years ago with Homo erectus, that is, after 3 million years of hominid evolution had gone by.
The Goddess and the Bull
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We are only just in the process of developing laws that may protect our closest evolutionary relatives, the other hominids, from virtual extinction.
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In some ways it seems on his account that music is a way of creating society, and thus is a goad to further selection, a social selection as it were, for greater complexity of hominid capabilities.
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Based on fossils discovered in earlier digs, hominids appear to have lived in the area for nearly six million years.
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He believes their canine teeth would have caused little damage to a hominid skeleton.
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The deuteragonist is a rather seedy individual who actually invented the hominids and is now on the run while trying to find a way to destroy his creation.
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Well, it is clear that bipedalism arose quite early in hominid history, even if no one can be certain, in the strictest genealogical sense, that the earliest hominid was an upright biped.
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The hominid fossil record shows a very clear progression in all of the key human traits - brain size relative to body size, bipedality, dentition, the use of tools, and cultural sophistication - from the miocene primates to modern humans.
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There were several of the Enterprise crewpeople among her own—a couple of hominids, one blue-skinned and one fair like the Captain—and one of the strange violet-tentacled things with all the eyes.
My Enemy My Ally
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By walking upright over four million years ago, the earliest hominids were already on an evolutionary track separate from even chimps and gorillas, our nearest genetic cousins, who locomote with a different kind of gait known as knuckle-walking.
Deepak Chopra: What We Don't Know Is Thrilling
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Hominidae, which is made up by orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and humans.
Primates in the News
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It belonged to the early hominid whom her husband Louis named Zinjanthropus - later Australopithecus - boisei.
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The Dmanisi hominids are among the most primitive individuals so far attributed to H. erectus or to any species that is indisputably Homo, and it can be argued that this population is closely related to Homo habilis sensu stricto as known from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, Koobi Fora in northern Kenya, and possibly Hadar in Ethiopia.
The Panda's Thumb: Transitional Fossils Archives
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Teeth and jaw fossils of an early hominid were found with fossils of other animals.
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Hominids had teeth that resembled those of pigs and bears, which can chew tough, fiber-rich food.
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Earlier this month in northeast Ethiopia, the bones of the oldest bipedal hominid to date were discovered.
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`Let's assume that the same person who took your hominid from the cabinet also took the cave man.
THE THREE INVESTIGATORS
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Hominidae is the taxonomic group that contains the apes orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, human.
Telling apes from humans - The Panda's Thumb
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In October last year, researchers said that the Hobbit fossil found in Flores, Indonesia did not represent a new species of hominid, but was rather a small bodied modern human who suffered from a genetic condition known as microcephaly, characterized by a small head.
Archive 2007-01-01
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The hominid fossil record isn’t even especially “jerky” when examined quantitatvely at fine-scale resolution, so the creationists don’t even have their usual incompetent misconstrual of punctuated equilibria which is actually about morphologically small gaps between closely-related sister species to rely upon.
Meet Selam - The Panda's Thumb
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One of the pleasures of Stanford's book is its splendidly gossipy account of recent research into the early history of hominid bipedalism.
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During that time new hominid fossils have been discovered in Africa.
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Can prosimian-like leaping be considered a preadaptation to bipedal walking in hominids?
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
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The most eagerly sought after evidence in fossil ‘hominids’ is any anatomical feature that suggests bipedality (the ability to walk on two legs).
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Yet he graciously forgave Le Gros and thanked him for his apology—though he also added somewhat testily, “I think both Mary and I do know a genuine fossil when we see one and can distinguish a pongid ape from a hominid without any difficulty.”
Ancestral Passions
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Chimpanzees and other apes have historically been separated from humans in classification schemes, with humans deemed the only living members of the hominid family of species.
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Experts now bracket humans in the ‘hominidae’ family of great apes, along with orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas.
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Besides, technically, chimps, gorillas, and orangutans are hominids, as they are all members of family Hominidae.
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Several involve retaining the binomial name (genus, species: Homo sapiens) but formatting it differently to distinguish from clade names, so that human beings might become homosapiens in the Hominid clade.
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Main areas of interest are cryptids reported in and around the British Isles (lake monsters, sea serpents, alien / native (yes native!) big cats and woodwose (hominids).
Cryptomundo
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The contrary school of thought, the multilineal or branching view, has held that although the human mode of adaptation is indeed different from those of other animals, its influence on hominid biological evolution has not been as great as is portrayed by the unilinealists, at least not until the emergence of modern humans.
Undefined
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This group of hominids were definitely bipedal, had small canine teeth and, therefore, were early men.
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No fieldworker has ever found two fossil hominid skeletons together before.
Mail and Guardian
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Both are about modern paleontologists who encounter groups of hominids thought extinct for eons.
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By walking upright over four million years ago, the earliest hominids were already on an evolutionary track separate from even chimps and gorillas, our nearest genetic cousins, who locomote with a different kind of gait known as knuckle-walking.
Deepak Chopra: What We Don't Know Is Thrilling
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My feeling is that behaviour and ecology stops hybridisation occuring as much as it otherwise might: among us hominids for example, there are reasons for thinking that chimps and gorillas can hybridise, and even that humans can hybridise with chimps.
The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas
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Maybe [Toumai] is an indication that there were lots of different species of hominid that were reproductively isolated," says Don Johanson, a "bushy" theorist who discovered the 3 million-year-old "Lucy" bones in 1974.
All In The Family
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The stone tools found with the hominid remains at Dmanisi, however, are simple choppers and scrapers similar to the Oldowan set found in the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
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The first hominid mammals appeared about 5 million years ago, while the genus Homo is known to have existed for at least 2 million years.
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We need a hominid skeleton and an allosaurus skull.
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Scientists suspect that hominids were using these simple stone axes to hack meat off of carcasses and dig up tubers.
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Hominology is related to Hominidae, the primate family including modern humans and their extinct immediate ancestors.
Week in Words
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No primatologist or anthropologist seems to have made anything of this, but I've yet to see anything that would rule out an arboreal leaping stage in (small) hominids that would explain the transition to walking bipedalism (indriids can't do this with their huge divergent hallux, but we grip branches with the instep instead).
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
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We think about the evolution of bipedalism as one of first events that led hominids down the path to being human.
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Recent discoveries in palaeoanthropology allow us to measure how rapidly our hominid ancestors grew up.
Times, Sunday Times
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The great mammalian megafauna are flourishing, and the hominid primates have become increasingly skilled at the use of fire and tool-making.
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Experts now bracket humans in the ‘hominidae’ family of great apes, along with orang-utans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas.
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That would have laid the groundwork for the success of the archaic bipedal hominids.
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Brains don't normally fossilize, but we know that human brains fit the nested hierarchy, that human brains are comprised of modifications of structures found in related organisms, that craniates follow a long, diversifying path of evolutionary history, and that humans are derived hominids.
Assessing Fault
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The Hadar hominid would have differed from most primates, in which both these vertebrae are involved in formation of the first costal capitular joint.
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And yet there are distinctions of considerable im - portance between apes and man, enough difference so that, quite fairly and without too much self-love on our own part, man may be put into a third catarrhine family all by himself, Hominidae (hoh-min'ih-dee; "man" L).
The Human Brain
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A glance at the fossil remains of these hominids shows that Neandertal bones are much more robust than those of modern Homo sapiens.
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Over the course of the last half century, more or less since the discovery of the Australopithecine hominid fossils in East Africa, which confirmed that human ancestry stretches back millions of years, there have been two general views of human evolution-the unilineal on the one hand and the multilineal or branching view on the other.
Undefined
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A tame animal does not pass that tameness onto its offspring; taming is not a heritable, genetic change, and there is no simple way to discover when a hominid first tamed another species.
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Take comfort in the fact that the direst of climate change predictions suggest that dramatic events may drasticly reduce the number of hominids inhabiting the third planet from the Sun.
On Sotomayor and Your Guns
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So Gunther et al. (1992) titled a paper 'Can prosimian-like leaping be considered a preadaptation to bipedal walking in hominids'.
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
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Can prosimian-like leaping be considered a preadaptation to bipedal walking in hominids?
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
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Analysis of the bones shows that the Dmanisi hominids definitely walked bipedally and upright.
The Panda's Thumb: Transitional Fossils Archives
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We need a hominid skeleton and an allosaurus skull.
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We think about the evolution of bipedalism as one of first events that led hominids down the path to being human.
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Fleeing the destruction of their own planet, the Martians had, five millions years previously, interbred with protohuman hominids in order to perpetuate their species.
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But today, there are eight putative species of early gracile hominid - and a number of the most recent and most ancient have characteristics that might force a re-interpretation of our earliest ancestry.
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This was also the age of ‘Lucy,’ Australopithecus afarensis, and the radiation of robust and gracile hominids which produced the genus Homo.
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These adaptations may be discovered through functional computational analysis using available models of our hominid past and general principles of evolution.
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Most hominid fossils earlier than about 2 million years ago are found in association with hippo fossils, implying that they lived in the same biotopes and that hippos later became a source of food for our distant ancestors.
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A hominin is a member of the tribe Hominini, a hominine is a member of the subfamily Homininae, a hominid is a member of the family Hominidae, and a hominoid is a member of the superfamily Hominoidea.
Meet Selam - The Panda's Thumb
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Zachriel: Brains don't normally fossilize, but we know that human brains fit the nested hierarchy, that human brains are comprised of modifications of structures found in related organisms, that craniates follow a long, diversifying path of evolutionary history, and that humans are derived hominids.
Assessing Fault
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Superfamily Hominoidea of Primates is divided into two families, Hominidae that consists of human, chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and Hylobatidae containing gibbons and siamang.
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Do hominid fossils from one to two million years ago represent a single species or numerous branches on the family tree, some of which died out?
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It is to this group of ancient hominids that the term ‘ape man’ is most commonly applied today, but the term is informal or colloquial.
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Since the name Hominidae has priority over the name Pongidae, the new arrangement would assume the name Hominidae.
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He had found a better place to search for hominid fossils, and he thought the $25,000 that was earmarked for the Omo Expedition should be spent at Lake Rudolf.
Ancestral Passions
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People are Human beings, of the family Hominidae by Nemo on Wednesday, Jul 15, 2009 at 8: 10: 20 PM
Last Year's Excuses Are Gone. Come On Already
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The stone tools found with the hominid remains at Dmanisi, however, are simple choppers and scrapers similar to the Oldowan set found in the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
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Falk's team looked not only at five Homo erectus skulls, but skulls of earlier hominids from Africa, such as Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus aethiopicus.
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It is also conceivable that the Homo sapiens karyotype could have independently arisen from different hominid ancestors elsewhere on earth.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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An endocast from Australopithecus africanus, a roughly 3-million-year-old South African hominid species, looks similar to that of LB1, Falk said.
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These antelope bones appeared to have been braaied - or to use a word more commonly understood outside South Africa, the hominid bands sheltering in these caves seemed to have enjoyed regular antelope barbecues.
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It's possible, for example, that early hominids living as bipeds in patchy forests became easier targets for leopards and other predators.