What is "hominids"

Usage examples of "hominids".

Small, slow, and defenseless, the hominids, walking blinking out of their forests, were an easy target for such creatures.

What is stranger still is that we now know that for about a million years they lived alongside other early hominids who did use tools, yet the australopithecines never took advantage of this useful technology that was all around them.

And the ways the hominids could achieve that were limited by the nature of the equipment they had to use.

The lower jaw was left jutting, and the face tilted back, so that these hominids lost the last trace of their ancient apelike muzzles.

Warfare with other groups would force hominids to come together in increasingly large bands, with all the social complications that followed.

The hominids had been reduced to gaunt skeletons, their blackened bodies wizened into fetal postures.

Death was as absolute as it had always been, deep back down the lineages of hominids and primates: death was a termination, an end of existence, and those who had gone were as meaningless as evaporated dew, their very identities lost after a generation.

Something inside her knew that this was not the kind of landscape within which hominids had evolved.

The Asian hominids would have had to appear, as it were, spontaneously.

At no time since hominids first arose on Earth has Australia not been an island.

No signs of slaughter have ever been found, so most authorities believe the newer hominids simply outcompeted the older ones, though other factors may also have contributed.

The upshot is that the creatures traditionally called hominids become, under this arrangement, hominins.

But the hominids apparently had at their disposal only the pattern of status-dependent sexual relations.

Pierre de Bonneville, with his crew of humans and golden-haired hominids, spent a night on the beach where Malenfant had fallen from orbit.

In the dawn light the hominids were working together with what looked like handheld stone tools, butchering the carcass.