human ancestor

collocation in English

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human
adjective
uk
/ˈhjuː.mən/us
/ˈhjuː.mən/
being, relating to, or belonging to a person or to people as opposed ...
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ancestor
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæn.ses.tər/us
/ˈæn.ses.tɚ/
a person related to you who lived a long ...
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(Definition ofhumanandancestorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The original placement of this species as ahumanancestorbut not a chimpanzee ancestor would complicate the picture of human phylogeny.
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Geneticists study these variants in populations to find the evolutionary lineage to a common malehumanancestor.
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This may be how tool use and bipedalism took hold among early human ancestors.
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Human ancestors can be traced back to the origins of life.
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More than 70% of the human conjoined genes are found to be conserved across other vertebrate genomes with higher order vertebrates showing more conservation, including the closesthumanancestor, chimpanzee.
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Human ancestors may have also relied upon this system when they lived on a diet rich in foliage.
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Lubbock was using modern ethnology as he knew it to reconstruct the ways of human ancestors.
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It is still a matter of debate what was the relation of this genus to human ancestors, and whether it is a hominin, or not.
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Many of our human ancestors worked out ritual processes, some of which did involve drumming and dancing and singing.
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This line of reasoning suggests human ancestors started out polygamous and began the transition to monogamy somewhere between 0.5 million and 2 million years ago.
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This hill has in it some caves which is believed to have been used by human ancestors.
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The scientific study of which provides priceless information about the appearance and the way of life of these remote human ancestors.
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As early human ancestors evolved into bipeds, changes occurred in the pelvis, hip joint and spine which increased the risk of osteoarthritis.
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Cooking had profound evolutionary effect because it increased food efficiency which allowed human ancestors to spend less time foraging, chewing, and digesting.
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This implies that none of the first four primates are to be considered actual human ancestors.
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All of these processes can help us to understand our human ancestors and how, why and when they created flake tools.
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The adaptive value of such skills to early human ancestors may have been keener detection of prey or stalkers and enhanced communication.
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The obstetrical dilemma began when human ancestors started to evolve into a bipedal creature.
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