Sentence examples for hominin from inspiring English sources

Homoplasy was common in hominin evolution.

The results also suggested that 2% of the genetic material in contemporary African populations introgressed from an archaic hominin population into modern humans approximately 35,000 years ago, most probably in Central Africa.

If it was a new hominin lineage, the evolutionary implication was that as many as five hominin taxa may have shared the Late Pleistocene landscape.

The Chad basin contains the earliest evidence of hominin occupation yet found in western Africa, and it appears that the Lake Chad region has been continuously settled since 500 bce.

As a result, there has been disagreement among anatomists regarding the hominin species to which this individual should be assigned.

The find is especially important because of the limbs, which show that OH 62 was a very small hominin.

Piltdown man (Eoanthropus dawsoni), also called Dawson's dawn man, proposed species of extinct hominin (member of the human lineage) whose fossil remains, discovered in England in 1910 12, were later proved to be fraudulent.

Peking man, extinct hominin of the species Homo erectus, known from fossils found at Zhoukoudian near Beijing.

In addition, the mosaic of humanlike and apelike characteristics displayed by these two specimens of A. sediba indicated that this species was unlike any other known hominin.

Although the current sample of fossil hominins leads some to the impression that there were only a few hominin lineages, it is far more likely that the human family tree will turn out to be quite "bushy".

The hominin fossil record does not include a truly intermediate form between an apelike and a humanlike body.