| 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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| Earlier this month in northeast Ethiopia, the bones of the oldest bipedal hominid to date were discovered. |
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| Teeth and jaw fossils of an early hominid were found with fossils of other animals. |
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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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| Then we use the dating of a recently discovered hominid fossil as a calibration point. |
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| Their handiwork expands debate over how to identify hominid species in the fossil record. |
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| The subtlety of the fragmentary relics of ancient hominid fossil evidence was astonishing. |
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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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| Our Pleistocene hominid forebears were exploiters of the savannas and their adjacent gallery forests. |
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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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| Since Darwin's day, paleoanthropologists have energetically sought the key to hominid erectness in many different places. |
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| He believes their canine teeth would have caused little damage to a hominid skeleton. |
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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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| 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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| Last Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a remarkable story about the discovery of two hominid fossils in South Africa. |
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| During that time new hominid fossils have been discovered in Africa. |
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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 Toumai skull, found in Chad in 2001 and thought to be the earliest hominid, is between 6m and 7.4m years old. |
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| It was my privilege to see the bones of the world's oldest-known hominid a year ago in Addis Abeba. |
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| After the discovery of a forest of another age in Africa, Earth has done an archaeological discovery: a very rare hominid in South Africa. |
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| For further information on the museum, its sponsors, the hominid corridor and the Uraha Foundation, go to www.palaeo.net. |
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| Sibiloi has the additional feature as the locality for the rich source of hominid and invertebrate fossils at Koobi Fora. |
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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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| 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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| Fossils, skulls, and hominid exhibitions throughout the caves are quite something. |
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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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| 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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| The hominid fossil is evidence of compassionate behaviour towards the elderly. |
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| A good conversation is one of the great joys of being human, but it is not clear just how far back in the hominid lineage the ability to use language stretches. |
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| Crucially, the Denisova hominid was the first to be identified from its DNA alone, its structure indicating that modern humans and the unknown cave dweller shared a common ancestor a million years ago. |
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| But the long-standing debate over how best to divvy up fragmentary fossils into hominid species has not vanished. |
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| These sites have produced an exceptionally rich, mainly terrestrial, fossil record including the earliest hominoids, and is of critical international importance in the development of knowledge of hominid evolution in Africa. |
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| Examining moulds of hominid crania does not therefore allow us to say with certainty whether this all-important Broca's area did or did not exist in our ancestors' brains. |
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| For example, the dominant paradigm for explaining the separation of the human branch from that of the great apes fell apart in 2002, blown to pieces with the discovery in Chad of a 7 million-year-old hominid cranium. |
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| By reconstructing in a computer model the shape of the vocal tract of hominid fossils, they hope to be able to date the appearance of a larynx sufficiently low to permit the production of articulated language. |
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| The diversity of fossil hominid sites has been presented previously in the section on archaeology and the focus on archaeological sites in Europe and North America. |
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| Interglacials are a useful tool for geological mapping and also for anthropologists, as they can be used as a dating method for hominid fossils. |
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| The participants discussed ways and means for strengthening co-operation between China and Indonesia for enhanced protection and research of prehistoric hominid World Heritage properties. |
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| The Happisburgh footprints were a set of fossilized hominid footprints that date to the early Pleistocene. |
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| An archaic view of hominid evolution, Polygenism, holds that different human peoples had differing origins. |
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| One study has found that Neanderthal brains were more asymmetric than other hominid brains. |
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| It is the study of ancient humans, as found in fossil hominid evidence such as petrifacted bones and footprints. |
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| The oldest traces of hominid existence in Switzerland date back about 150,000 years. |
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| The earliest archaeological site in the subcontinent is the Palaeolithic hominid site in the Soan River valley. |
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| Until now it was not clear at what point in hominoid or hominid evolution this stage evolved. |
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| Other sites yielding fossil evidence of this hominid have been discovered in the United Kingdom and France. |
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| It is only the second time ever that a complete skull of a hominid is examined using powerful synchrotron radiation. |
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| The GRV is the cradle of humankind due to the fact that Lucy, the oldest hominid ever discovered with an estimated age of 3.2 million years, was found in Ethiopia. |
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| Part I asks how to transform hominoid into hominid sociality biologically. |
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| Grasping the proximal surface, the hominid brought the distal surface down hard on an object he wished to detach or shatter, such as a bone or tuber. |
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| They are the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa. |
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| Bipedalism is the basic adaptation of the hominid and is considered the main cause behind a suite of skeletal changes shared by all bipedal hominids. |
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| Ecology and energetics of encephalization in hominid evolution. |
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| The new research provides detailed information on the teeth of 88 additional specimens, including five previously unanalyzed hominid species, doubling the dataset, he said. |
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| These sites suggest that various hominid species existed in South Africa from about three million years ago starting with Australopithecus africanus. |
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