Sentence examples for modern human skeleton from inspiring English sources

"This definitely is its own species," Dr. Tattersall affirmed, glancing first to the Neanderthal and then to a modern human skeleton next to it.

It wasn't the early modern human skeleton we'd been hoping to find, but what was it?

Fig. 2 Complete Neanderthal skeleton (left) reconstructed using elements from five partial skeletons (principally La Ferrassie 1 and Kebara 2) compared with a modern human skeleton (right).

A typically modern human skeleton from the Israeli site of Jebel Qafzeh, dated to 93,000 years ago, shows that anatomical moderns had spread beyond Africa proper by that time.

The earliest modern human skeleton ever found in China provides evidence that early Homo sapiens spreading out of Africa may have mated with other human species, its excavators say.

Subsequently, the modern human populations expanded rapidly along the coastlines of southern Asia, southeastern Asia and Indonesia to arrive in Australia at least by 45 thousand years before present (kyBP), best represented by the anatomically modern human skeleton from the site of Lake Mungo 3 in New South Wales [ 1, 8- 16].

In Israel, for example, researchers found a few distinctively modern human skeletons that are between 120,000 and 90,000 years old.

They have recovered 100,000-year-old modern human skeletons from the Skhul and Qafzeh caves in Israel.

In those early excavations, several modern human skeletons were found, but in a different cave, and have been dated to be about 16,000 years old.

The cave, located just 40 kilometers north of numerous other sites where both Neandertal and earlier modern human skeletons have been found, was discovered in 2008 during construction work in the area, when a bulldozer shaved off part of its roof.

The article includes excellent downloadable images including a group of early humans dressed in furs that came from a scene in a film, some of the Neanderthal bones used in the study, Dr. Svante Paabo with a reconstructed Neanderthal skull, an annotated map of the interaction of modern humans and Neanderthals, and a labeled skeleton of a modern human and a Neanderthal skeleton.