"modern" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They dined not only on fruits and leaves, as modern chimpanzees do, but may also have already become meat eaters.
- The size of the lower jaw and some bones of the skeleton suggests that one of these individuals was about the size of a modern chimpanzee.
- Our ancestors split from the evolutionary lineage that evolved into modern chimpanzees about five million years ago.
- To begin with, why did the lineage that contained the common ancestors of both modern chimpanzees and humans split five million years ago?
- Its brain size was very similar to that of modern chimpanzees and gorillas.
- That mixture, combined with his great age, probably places Toumai closer than any other known fossil to the last common ancestor shared by modern chimpanzees and modern humans.
- However, the brain/body ratio hi the early hominid was perhaps twice that of a modern chimpanzee, and four times that of a modern gorilla.
- Nevertheless, it is in some ways unlike chimpanzees, suggesting that the common ancestor differs from the modern chimpanzee.
- Who was also, we hasten to point out, a modern chimpanzee's manlike ancestor.
- By 3.7 million years ago, these increasingly humanlike creatures walked on two legs but still had small skulls and brains similar to those of modern chimpanzees.
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