"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She discovered the skull of Proconsul africanus, an apelike ancestor of both apes and early humans that lived about 25 million years ago.
- The 2.5 million-year-old creature, dubbed Australopithecus garhi , evidently used stone tools to carve up the animals it killed and had much bigger teeth than its apelike ancestors.
- The first two sentences of the caption to the illustration read (with emphasis added), "What were the stages of man's long march from apelike ancestors to ?
- This arrangement suggests that this part of the hand blueprint came from apelike ancestors five million to six million years ago.
- Now a team of French scientists has rebuilt a virus that infected our apelike ancestors several million years ago.
- These apelike ancestors, the scientists noted, were walking almost three million years before they became runners and began to assume more modern physiques.
- In our evolutionary ascent from an apelike ancestor, we gained our most prized possession, the mental abilities underlying language.
- Some of the worriers concentrate on apelike ancestors, showing a lack of vision.
- Moreover, he suggests, the upright posture adopted by early hominids - humans' apelike ancestors - as long as two million years ago would have facilitated hand-based communication.
- Most scientists agree that modern man evolved from apelike ancestors in a process that began millions of years ago.
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