"Matt, did you know at least nine different hominin species lived simultaneously on our Earth, hundreds of thousands of years ago?" "And we're the only ones to survive, Arnie?" "Yeah!"
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Hominin
Synonyms for "hominin" (1 found)
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German
1 entries- Hominini noun (member of the tribe Hominini)
Turkish
2 entries- hominini noun (member of the tribe Hominini)
- insanımsı noun (member of the tribe Hominini)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
If our hominin ancestors could have written their stories down, history would be much longer than it is.
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The Lucy mission is named after the fossilized skeleton of an early hominin (pre-human ancestor) discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 and named “Lucy” by the team of paleoanthropologists who discovered it.
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[...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.
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