Hominid
noun
A type of primate that includes humans and their closest extinct relatives.
Researchers discovered fossils of early hominids that lived millions of years ago.
Often appears as...
- hominid evolution
- early hominids
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Scientific
noun
A type of primate that includes humans and their closest extinct relatives.
Researchers discovered fossils of early hominids that lived millions of years ago.
Often appears as...
- hominid evolution
- early hominids
Usage tips
Scientific
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Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Term
Used in biology and anthropology to discuss human origins and species relationships.
The study of hominid skull shapes can offer insights into brain development.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
Often appears in discussions about prehistoric times and evolution.
Hominid tools represent some of the earliest human technology.
Pro Tip 3/3Fossil Evidence
Commonly used in paleontology when talking about discoveries of ancient bones.
New hominid fossils were uncovered in East Africa.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Term
Used in biology and anthropology to discuss human origins and species relationships.
The study of hominid skull shapes can offer insights into brain development.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
Often appears in discussions about prehistoric times and evolution.
Hominid tools represent some of the earliest human technology.
Pro Tip 3/3Fossil Evidence
Commonly used in paleontology when talking about discoveries of ancient bones.
New hominid fossils were uncovered in East Africa.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Term
Used in biology and anthropology to discuss human origins and species relationships.
The study of hominid skull shapes can offer insights into brain development.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
Often appears in discussions about prehistoric times and evolution.
Hominid tools represent some of the earliest human technology.
Pro Tip 3/3Fossil Evidence
Commonly used in paleontology when talking about discoveries of ancient bones.
New hominid fossils were uncovered in East Africa.
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Discovering Homo Naledi:...
Brain, the size of an orange, ape-like shoulders human-like arms ending in a human-like hand with the most curved fingers we have ever seen outside the most primitive hominids. Four or five million year old equivalents. It's bizarre. It's thorax, starts ape-like, becomes more and more advanced.
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The pattern behind...
Especially when they're upside down, you're engaging that general facial recognition software there. Now I said back in our little thought experiment, you're a hominid walking on the plains of Africa. Is it just the wind or a dangerous predator? What's the difference between those?
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Fossils 101 PIPE National...
Insects encased in amber have been so well preserved that their genetic material was extracted and partially sequenced. And footprints left behind by ancient hominids help paint a picture of what life was like for early human ancestors millions of years ago.
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First Look Inside the...
spoken to myself and Rick and a few others and said oh he needs us to come start looking for hominids and on this whole expedition he has been in charge of the cavers coordinating who is here and what we have to do and getting everything
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Digging for humanity's...
is the norm that there are multiple species of hominids of human ancestors that coexist at any one time where did these things come from that's what we're still trying to find answers to and it is important to realize that there is
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New Human Ancestor...
comparing their morphology to other early hominids we can see that we would place them right at the base of the lineage that leads to us we never seen a nonhuman that shares so many primitive and yet sometimes advanced characters
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How nature engages your...
or comas is habitat preference in the eye of the beholder or is it hard wired into the hominid brain as many evolutionary psychologists suggest if we had answers to questions like these we could optimize the creation of nature
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Bigfoot of the Himalayas...
our challenge is to unpack the various theories that support and fuel the Yeti legend is it a bear could it possibly be some kind of giant ape could it even be some kind of ancient hominid a member of
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The next species of...
The common state of affairs is to have overlapping versions of hominids, not one. And as you think of the implications of that, here's a brief history of the universe.
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Part Ape, Part Human:...
primates the only one with an S shaped or sigmoid shaped clavicle are hominids and I happen to be one of the only world's experts on hominid clavicles I
Video examples
Discovering Homo Naledi:...
Brain, the size of an orange, ape-like shoulders human-like arms ending in a human-like hand with the most curved fingers we have ever seen outside the most primitive hominids. Four or five million year old equivalents. It's bizarre. It's thorax, starts ape-like, becomes more and more advanced.
Video examples
The pattern behind...
Especially when they're upside down, you're engaging that general facial recognition software there. Now I said back in our little thought experiment, you're a hominid walking on the plains of Africa. Is it just the wind or a dangerous predator? What's the difference between those?
Video examples
Fossils 101 PIPE National...
Insects encased in amber have been so well preserved that their genetic material was extracted and partially sequenced. And footprints left behind by ancient hominids help paint a picture of what life was like for early human ancestors millions of years ago.
Video examples
First Look Inside the...
spoken to myself and Rick and a few others and said oh he needs us to come start looking for hominids and on this whole expedition he has been in charge of the cavers coordinating who is here and what we have to do and getting everything
Video examples
Digging for humanity's...
is the norm that there are multiple species of hominids of human ancestors that coexist at any one time where did these things come from that's what we're still trying to find answers to and it is important to realize that there is
Video examples
New Human Ancestor...
comparing their morphology to other early hominids we can see that we would place them right at the base of the lineage that leads to us we never seen a nonhuman that shares so many primitive and yet sometimes advanced characters
Video examples
How nature engages your...
or comas is habitat preference in the eye of the beholder or is it hard wired into the hominid brain as many evolutionary psychologists suggest if we had answers to questions like these we could optimize the creation of nature
Video examples
Bigfoot of the Himalayas...
our challenge is to unpack the various theories that support and fuel the Yeti legend is it a bear could it possibly be some kind of giant ape could it even be some kind of ancient hominid a member of
Video examples
The next species of...
The common state of affairs is to have overlapping versions of hominids, not one. And as you think of the implications of that, here's a brief history of the universe.
Video examples
Part Ape, Part Human:...
primates the only one with an S shaped or sigmoid shaped clavicle are hominids and I happen to be one of the only world's experts on hominid clavicles I
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Donald Johanson
American Scientist
If you were to go to the National Museum in Addis Ababa, you would walk into a huge room filled with literally tens of tons of fossils, and most of them would be elephants and rhinos and hippopotamus and monkeys and giraffes and antelopes and so on. Hominids are very rare in the landscape, and it's very rare to find them.
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Rhys Darby
New Zealander Comedian
My favorite crypted is definitely Yeti because it's once removed. It's not as popular as Bigfoot or Sasquatch, but it's more exciting. Yetis are of Tibetan origin, China or so, around Russia. They're more of a snow-based giant hominid. Apes living up in the snow? That doesn't make any sense! Well! People have seen them.
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Maryanne Wolf
American Educator
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit's connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the nature of human thought.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall. And while these rocky runts won't cause Armageddon, they could still flatten such popular hominid hangouts as Manhattan or downtown Des Moines.
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Louise Leakey
Kenyan Scientist
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.
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Zeresenay Alemseged
Ethiopian Scientist
Because I am interested in the growth and development of early hominids, I play with my kids, you know, looking at their teeth or measuring their heads, which they like also, because it's kind of fun.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.
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Louis Leakey
British Scientist
I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
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Richard Leakey
Kenyan Environmentalist
To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
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Ridley Scott
British Director
Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it.
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Donald Johanson
American Scientist
If you were to go to the National Museum in Addis Ababa, you would walk into a huge room filled with literally tens of tons of fossils, and most of them would be elephants and rhinos and hippopotamus and monkeys and giraffes and antelopes and so on. Hominids are very rare in the landscape, and it's very rare to find them.
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Rhys Darby
New Zealander Comedian
My favorite crypted is definitely Yeti because it's once removed. It's not as popular as Bigfoot or Sasquatch, but it's more exciting. Yetis are of Tibetan origin, China or so, around Russia. They're more of a snow-based giant hominid. Apes living up in the snow? That doesn't make any sense! Well! People have seen them.
Quote examples
Maryanne Wolf
American Educator
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit's connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the nature of human thought.
Quote examples
Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall. And while these rocky runts won't cause Armageddon, they could still flatten such popular hominid hangouts as Manhattan or downtown Des Moines.
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Louise Leakey
Kenyan Scientist
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.
Quote examples
Zeresenay Alemseged
Ethiopian Scientist
Because I am interested in the growth and development of early hominids, I play with my kids, you know, looking at their teeth or measuring their heads, which they like also, because it's kind of fun.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.
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Louis Leakey
British Scientist
I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
Quote examples
Richard Leakey
Kenyan Environmentalist
To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
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Ridley Scott
British Director
Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it.
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