Hominin in a sentence

Research at Sterkfontein began in 1936 when palaeontologist Robert Broom discovered the first adult hominin fossil.

The term hominin refers to various species considered human or closely related.

New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said.

The basis for Merge needs to be a single genetic mutation, a macromutation, that emerged instantaneously in a single hominin individual who is an ancestor of all modern humans, and spread through the population.

The Denisovan fossil and the DNA it contained, indicate that early modern humans coexisted in Asia with other archaic hominin species, but, unexpectedly, that they interbred with them.

Aug. 28 (UPI) -- The discovery of a rare 3.8-million-year-old hominin skull unearthed in Ethiopia promises to offer fresh insights into the complexities of early human evolution.

Instead, what we’re witnessing here are parallel lineages, illustrating how different hominin experiments were unfolding early in our complex evolutionary history,” explained DeSilva.

Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and.

This fossil hominin is transforming our understanding of human evolution, not least because lived very recently, around 250,000 years ago, and has a strange mix of modern and archaic features.

An international team of researchers has used a machine learning algorithm to assess whether hominin bones found in caves were placed there as part of a burial service by early human ancestors.

Following an epic 20-year-long excavation in South Africa, researchers have finally recovered and cleaned the nearly-complete skeleton of an ancient human relative: an approximately 3.67-million-year-old hominin nicknamed Little Foot.

It’s rare to find juvenile skeletons of human hominin ancestors, especially ones that are well-preserved.

Sites of ancient hominin presence have been found across the globe, beginning in Africa around 2.8 million years ago.

American thought has evolved during the “four-field approach”, skeletons, artifacts, language and culture and many (ways of life), based upon studies on the remains of the North American hominin clade.

Archaeological discoveries in Kenya in 2015, identifying possibly the oldest known evidence of hominin use of tools to date, have indicated that Kenyanthropus platyops may have been the earliest tool-users known.

Consequently, the authors argue it is no longer tenable to extrapolate from chimpanzees in reconstructions of early hominin social and mating behaviour, providing further evidence against the so-called 'chimpanzee referential model'.

In a study that assumes the hominin status of Ardipithecus ramidus, it has been argued the species represents a heterochronic alteration of the more general great ape body plan.

Originally described as one of the earliest ancestors of humans after they diverged from the main ape lineage, the relation of this genus to human ancestors and whether it is a hominin is now a matter of debate.

The equatorial belt contracted after about 8 million years ago, and there is very little fossil evidence for the split—thought to have occurred around that time—of the hominin lineage from the lineages of gorillas and chimpanzees.

The first hominin fossils were discovered in northern Africa and date back 5–8 mya.