Hominins in a sentence

Evolutionary path Although it is an extremely difficult task to figure out the evolution of the hominins, knowledge of these hominins has been growing.

Busts of Neanderthal and hominins line a table at the studio of paleoartist John Gurche in Trumansburg, N.Y., Wednesday, May 31, 2023.

Other hominins existing at the time included the genus Australopithecus, known for the famous even-older fossil "Lucy" which was found in 1974 in northern Ethiopia.

Also bipedal and adapted for both walking upright and climbing, the hominins had longer arms relative to legs compared to later Homo species.

Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered in 1856, people have wondered about these ancient hominins.

We did survive all the other hominins, though, and that needs explaining.

Why did we succeed when other hominins didn’t, and can lessons from our evolutionary past help rein in our destructive impulses?

Denisovans, a group of extinct hominins that diverged from Neanderthals about 400,000 years ago, may have more widely inhabited northeast central Asia than scientists previously thought.

Straight-tusked elephants were a part of their environment, and the hominins knew that they frequently died on the lakeshore.

The features shared by Homo antecessor with these hominins clearly appeared much earlier than previously thought.

The oldest genetic material ever extracted from a human has revealed a 'sister group' of hominins related to Homo sapiens, Denisovans and Neanderthals.

That’s all the physical evidence we have of the mysterious Denisovans, an extinct group of hominins closely related to the Neanderthals.

The work also continues to challenge the outdated notion that modern humans were the only hominins with the cognitive capacity to think abstractly.

Today, our closest living relatives are chimpanzees, but extinct hominins are even closer.

Little Foot now shows us that this brain asymmetry was present at a very early date (from 3.67 million years ago), and supports suggestions that it was probably present in the last common ancestor of hominins and other great apes.

Having smaller molars at the date they existed, it is possible that the previous sister taxon of all modern hominins, Preanthropus afarensis, should be replaced by Kenyanthropus.

Pliocene mammals of North America Africa was dominated by hoofed animals, and primates continued their evolution, with australopithecines (some of the first hominins ) appearing in the late Pliocene.

The brains of these early hominins were about the same size as that of a chimpanzee, and their main adaptation was bipedalism as an adaptation to terrestrial living.

The gibbons (family Hylobatidae) and then orangutans (genus Pongo) were the first groups to split from the line leading to the hominins, including humans—followed by gorillas, and, ultimately, by the chimpanzees (genus Pan).

The pithecus portion of the name is from the Greek word for "ape". citation Like most hominids, but unlike all previously recognized hominins, it had a grasping hallux or big toe adapted for locomotion in the trees.