How to Use hominin in a Sentence

hominin

noun
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  • Most of the blame can be placed on the hominins and their stone tools.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • Then that hominin had the idea to use that flake to cut meat from the carcass.
    — Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Many of the bones seem to bear the marks of butchering by tool-wielding hominins.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2018
  • The lack of claws is one of the traits cited by the authors as evidence a hominin made the prints.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2017
  • There are lots of ideas about how our species survived the ice age when our hominin cousins did not.
    — Denise Su, The Conversation, 27 June 2022
  • An ancient hominin further shaped the tool with the aid of a stone or bone hammer.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
  • Lucy, the spacecraft, is named after the Lucy hominin fossils found in 1974 in Ethiopia.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The jawbone is the only remnant of any hominin species found so far.
    — Author: Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Experts had to work out what kind of hominin the remains belonged to.
    — Fox News, 9 Apr. 2020
  • And in France and Spain, the first evidence of hominins dates to 1.1 million to 1.2 million years ago.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Unlike us, the ancient hominins had brains the size of chimps and hung out in trees to escape predators.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 24 May 2017
  • At the time, six hominin fossils were collected from the site.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2017
  • Whether the animal left the two marks before or after the hominin died, the researchers couldn’t say.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • Over eons, plant and animal remains (not to mention hominins) have been found in the caves.
    — Lydia Pyne, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
  • If the tracks at Site A were the work of a different hominin species, those fossils still await discovery.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Around this time hominin body and brain size nearly doubled, while teeth and jaws got smaller.
    — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Why did a hominin 1.5 million years ago pick this kind of rock, and why this particular chunk of it?
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Or hominins could have killed and butchered the unfortunate victim before big cats got to the scraps.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • The team decided against naming this hominin a new species given the few remains found to date.
    — Matthew Twombly, National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The research has even identified a kind of hominin, the Denisovan, for which there are scant fossil remains.
    — Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • That brings us to the most relevant hominin-like feature, the position of the foramen magnum.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2019
  • Since that split, hominins evolved distinctive sleep habits still with us today.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
  • Ancient hominins are believed to have started eating meat around 2 and a half million years ago.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But in older hominins like A. sediba and H. erectus, that's not the case; their order of adult tooth growth looks more like modern great apes.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2020
  • In the new study, Pontzer and Kozma also calculated the range of hip and leg extensions of three species of ancient hominins.
    — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Its legs were longer than its arms, as in modern humans, making this the most-ancient hominin definitively known to have that trait.
    — NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
  • This is a sea-change from how anthropologists once viewed this group of hominins: as a species doomed to extinction.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
  • In a new study in Nature, Ciochon and colleagues have written what, at least for now, appears to be the hominin’s final chapter.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Chinese and Georgian scholars have long argued that a more primitive species of hominin got out of Africa and gave rise to H. erectus in Asia.
    — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 11 July 2018
  • And a hominin cranium was found in 2002 in a travertine quarry in southwestern Turkey.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2024

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