Search results for "Homo (genus" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") is the name given ... may have been the first species of the Homo genus to bury their dead, but ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 12:10, 2 February 2024
- chimpanzees together with humans in the Homo genus and to consider great apes ... to include chimpanzees and gorillas in the genus Homo along with humans, though ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 11:38, 2 February 2024
- man"). The genus of humans then is Homo. Genus necessarily includes one ... used sometimes, such as subfamily (above genus) and subgenus (below genus). ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 06:51, 18 April 2024
- Peking Man (sometimes called Beijing Man), is a prominent example of Homo erectus, an extinct species of the genus to which modern humans also ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- Homo habilis is arguably the first species of the Homo genus to appear ... Mayr (2001) notes that the Homo genus, a far advanced hominid, appeared ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 12:08, 2 February 2024
- Homo erectus ("upright man") is an extinct species of the genus Homo. It lived from about 1.8 million years ago (mya) to 50-70,000 ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 12:01, 2 February 2024
- Java Man was one of the first specimens of Homo erectus to be discovered ... evidence that the oldest members of the Homo genus originated there. It is ...9 KB (1,362 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- indicated by a two-part name, a capitalized genus name followed by a lowercase ... *# a first word, the genus name, is also called the generic name. ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:46, 11 January 2023
- Australopithecus and an early species of Homo were present at the sites. ... was the combustion of wood or sticks by Homo erectus about two million ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 00:50, 18 October 2022
- discovery of Sinanthropus pekinensis (now Homo erectus pekinensis) or the ... and the bones belonged to the new hominid genus that he named Sinanthropus ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 08:39, 28 January 2024
- Louis Leakey, famous for her discovery of Homo habilis and the "Laetoli ... but some stress the greater similarity to the Homo genus. ...9 KB (1,368 words) - 16:10, 7 November 2022
- are a unique species or a subspecies of Homo sapiens (Homo sapiens ssp ... lineage among early members of the Homo genus, and that perhaps even ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- the large, extinct elephants comprising the genus Mammuthus, with many species ... Mammoths comprise the genus Mammuthus. Unlike the generally straight ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- lineage among early members of the Homo genus, and that perhaps even ... used to classify species in the Homo genus. The word homo is Latin ...73 KB (10,580 words) - 23:55, 7 April 2023
- quot;) is the study of humanity (see genus Homo). The discipline is ... evolution and something that distinguishes Homo sapiens—and perhaps all ...28 KB (3,944 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- In taxonomy, a species is assigned a two-part scientific name. The genus is listed first (and capitalized) followed by a species epithet (which ...23 KB (3,511 words) - 17:36, 14 October 2022
- The group is often spelled Crocodylia for consistency with the genus ... All crocodilians have, like Homo sapiens (humans), thecodont dentition ...25 KB (3,728 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2020
- tools since long before the emergence of Homo sapiens approximately 200 ... 2022. scholarly consensus indicates that Homo erectus had controlled fire ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 17:50, 14 November 2022
- Neanderthal or Neandertal is a relatively recent extinct member of the Homo genus that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia in the middle ...80 KB (11,439 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- and bipedal gait has been suggested as has Homo erectus to be the creature ... There was also a little known genus, called Meganthropus, which reputedly ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 02:27, 21 April 2023
