hominoid in a sentence
Examples
- However this also contains the hominoids ( apes and humans ), so that monkeys are, in terms of currently recognized taxa, non-hominoid simians.
- The fossil teeth were covered in thick enamel, suggesting that the diet of this hominoid included a considerable amount of hard objects, possibly nuts or seeds.
- It did to the Greeks 2, 500 years ago and it no doubt did to the first hominoid who managed to stand upright and touch thumb to forefinger.
- Several important archaeological and palaeontological sites, some of which have yielded fossil hominoids and hominins, are present in the Miocene to Pleistocene sedimentary sequences of the Tugen Hills.
- For example, in 1987 Peter Andrews and Lawrence Martin, established palaeontologists, took the point of view that Proconsul is not a Hominoid, but is a sister taxon to it.
- "Samburupithecus " lived during the so-called " African ape gap ", a period from which very few hominoid fossils have been found in Africa until relatively recently.
- The radiohumeral articulation, however, suggests a greater mobility in pronation / supination and the bowed shaft and strong supinator crests suggest more powerful pronation / supination than in non-hominoids.
- Dawkins lists " concestors " of the hominoid ( human-gibbon ), and so on in 39 stages in total, down to the last universal ancestor ( human-bacteriae ).
- Previous hominoid material collected in the 1950s at the Keiyuan colliery site in Yunnan and attributed to " Dryopithecus keiyuanensis " were subsequently assigned to " L . keiyuanensis ".
- These elongated teeth are unlike many other Miocene hominoids, linking " Samburupithecus " the taxon to gorillas, chimpanzees and hominins, but its relationships within this clade is at present unclear.