hominid

extinct primitive hominid of late Pleistocene

gracile hominid of southern Africa

extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain;formerly Pithecanthropus erectus.

Perhaps 20 or more hominids (not all of them our ancestors) fill the gap between Lucy the australopithecine and modern humans.

"We think about the evolution of bipedalism as one of first events that led hominids down the path to being human.

We think about the evolution of bipedalism as one of first events that led hominids down the path to being human.

Based on the U-series dating of intercalated speleothem formations, the chronology of several hominid sites in southern China has been studied.

Rosenberg, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Delaware, specializes in pelvic morphology and has studied hominid fossils from Europe, Israel, China and South Africa.

About day four, we realized that there was nothing in this chamber but hominids.

By the 1950s, the number of named hominid types had risen to comfortably over a hundred.

One area of paleoanthropological study involves the eating and dietary habits of hominids, erect bipedal primates—including early humans.

In fact, in 2007, in the Siwa oasis, an early hominid footprint was discovered fossilized in the rocks.

At no time since hominids first arose on Earth has Australia not been an island.

I found my first hominid — one-in-ten-million chance — my first day. It was completely — I was hooked.

An upright hominid could see better, but could also be seen better.

In addition, Homo erectus was the first hominid [HAH muh nid] to use fire.

It has these very different hands than any kind of hominid we've ever seen before, with those long, curved fingers.

We know less about ourselves, curiously enough, than about almost any other line of hominids.