To the right is an artist's impression of what some of the hominids might have looked like. |
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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. |
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Some will come as a surprise, like the early small-brained bipedal hominids. |
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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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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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A previous study of the palaeodemography of these hominids was made after the 1993 season. |
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That means that, on the strict taxonomic level, chimps and gorillas are hominids. |
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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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Finding the evolutionary origin of hominids is a little like stalking big game. |
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This group of hominids were definitely bipedal, had small canine teeth and, therefore, were early men. |
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That would have laid the groundwork for the success of the archaic bipedal hominids. |
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Another unresolved mystery centers on the first hominids to stand erect on their two hind legs. |
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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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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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Moreover, the tender notes that passengers cluster on the floor around power jacks as if they were early hominids seeking the warmth of a fire. |
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Humans were created at the Beginning, not years and years later after hominids had roamed the earth. |
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It is very clear that over the long haul, the brain size of hominids has increased. |
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However, hominids were never very plentiful and their archaeological remains are still very hard to find. |
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In any case, an end should be put to tests on hominids. They are ethically unacceptable and I hope I can count on your support. |
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We shall equally assume that, in the phase of the hominids there was no chance of migrating towards longer distances. |
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Fossil records show that the first hominids fell prey to the animals with which they shared their habitats. |
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On a 24-hour clock of geological time, our own ancestors, the first hominids, will not make an appearance until just before midnight. |
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Some five million years ago, various species of hominids begin to inhabit Africa. |
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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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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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Thus, this monograph is a welcome publication for those who work on the later Neogene, and for paleoanthropologists interested in the ecological context of basal hominids. |
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Ardipithecus is situated temporally and cladistically between ancestral apes and later hominids. |
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This discovery suggests that European hominids were able to adapt to the seasonal climate of a savannah-like ecosystem. |
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Forty years ago, for example, palaeontologists thought that hominids, the group of primates that includes modern humans, had been distinct from other apes for some 25m years. |
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For most apes and probably for early hominids, we wouldn't expect much dadlike behavior. |
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The same goes for those left by early hominids, but with a difference. |
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The enormous variety of animal fossils and stone and flint tools found here has allowed a picture to be painted of the life of around thirty hominids who inhabited the area in the Pleistocene era. |
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That pattern best fits a scenario in which hominids retrieved heads left untouched by big cats. |
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The pace of technological change is leaving us, the descendants of those tool making hominids, bewildered with the dizzying pace of technological change. |
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Additionally, it will allow the visitor to experience 4 million years of human evolution from fragile hominids to masters of the earth: an Odyssey with an end that we are all in search of in an increasingly complex world. |
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Klein, who has worked extensively on ancient stone tools, describes the stone tool kit of archaic hominids as impossible to categorize. |
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The neocortex of many species is home to elongated spindle neurons that, prior to 2007, were known only in hominids. |
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The neocortex of many cetaceans is home to elongated spindle neurons that, prior to 2007, were known only in hominids. |
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The neocortex of many species of whale is home to elongated spindle neurons that, prior to 2007, were known only in hominids. |
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Many extinct hominids have been studied to help understand the relationship between modern humans and the other extant hominids. |
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Early humans evolved from a species of foraging hominids which were already bipedal, with a brain mass approximately one third of modern humans. |
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The older brain is very old indeed, and in its super-primate form served hominids well during their long hunting-and-gathering period. |
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The most ancient biped hominids could be traced around 6 million years back, with Orrorin tugenensis whose first remains were unearthed in 2000 in Kenya. |
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Never before have hominids of that age been found in such good condition. |
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But this does not mean that he knew about the history of hominids in east Africa or electroweak unification. |
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The hominids were characterised by upright posture, and their forelimbs were not used for locomotion and so were usually shorter and not as strong as the hind limbs. |
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The eating habits of ancient hominids known as robust australopithecines have been a matter of debate for decades. |
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Margvelashvili said that Dmanisi hominids show the first clear case of overusing the toothpick, which led to infection. |
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A group of hominids crouches beneath a rock cornice, awaiting the rain. |
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A primary and persistently ground-living form does not develop fourhandedness. The present forelimb of the hominids is incomprehensible without prior arboreal life. |
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An ability to hear, and presumably make, these sounds enhanced communication among hominids foraging in groups across open landscapes, the researchers propose. |
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Upright posture evolved well before an enlarged brain in hominids. |
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Both ends of the bone show signs of gnawing, possibly by a wolf, suggesting that perhaps the Boxgrove hominids were sometimes prey to other animals. |
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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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Hominids had teeth that resembled those of pigs and bears, which can chew tough, fiber-rich food. |
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Hominids started using primitive stone tools millions of years ago. |
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