How to Use hominid in a Sentence

hominid

noun

• In many ways, this makes the hominid even more remarkable.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• The Denisovan hominid was first detected at the Denisova Cave in Siberia.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2018
• In other words, this early-hominid Game of Thrones has more plot twists up its sleeve this season...
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2014
• The cave, which probably served as a shelter for these hominids, is located on the western slope of Mt. Carmel and is part of a network of caves in the area.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• These kinds of tools have been found in Europe, where they were made by Neanderthals and other early hominids.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2018
• So are these elephants and hominids still separate species?
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 18 May 2017
• So are these elephants and hominids still separate species?
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 19 May 2017
• One thing that still mystifies Raia and Diniz-Filho is how these hominids, with tiny, chimp-sized brains, thrived for so long on the islands.
  — Fox News, 4 Nov. 2019
• Here’s the thing, bands on tour tend to devolve into older models of hominid society.
  — Charlton Pettus, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• This species of ancient hominid was living and walking around on two feet in East Africa 3.7 to 3 million years ago, long before the earliest stone tools were made.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 14 June 2023
• Augmenting nature is an ancient idea that dates back to the earliest hominids and the dawn of agriculture.
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2018
• Since then, scientists have found much older and more complete hominids.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland, 24 Oct. 2019
• Within the United States, researchers believe there are likely more than one species of giant hominid.
  — David Ferry, Outside Online, 5 July 2016
• Some studies have shown that ancient hominids have been using psychotropic plants and drugs as far back as 200 million years ago.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2023
• Lucy is one the world’s most complete and best-preserved hominids ― a prehistoric ancestor to humans.
  — Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
• But the lure of the fossil beds remained strong, and his discovery of the lower jaw from the genus Australopithecus, an early hominid, brought him back into the field.
  — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2022
• And in fact, no extinction event before the rise of hominids had ever been worse for large animals compared with smaller ones.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• During much of the human journey from just another primate to world-conquering hominid, our four-legged pals have been right by our side.
  — Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
• This shouldn’t be too surprising, however, given the world ancient hominids lived in.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 14 June 2023
• Smith and her colleagues conclude that the size of large mammals on that continent may have been affected by hominid hunters going back more than a million years.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• That link only appeared once hominids began to live alongside large mammals.
  — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2018
• Which species of hominids, though, is not necessarily clear.
  — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2019
• This meant early hominids weren’t just miniature versions of contemporary humans, as was thought at the time, but more similar to apes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2016
• The skulls seem to point to region-specific evolution in eastern Asia at a time when multiple hominid species existed.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 3 Mar. 2017
• Shielding the head from heat could have been crucial for early hominid ancestors living in Africa under the equatorial sun.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
• One of the most plausible, researchers suggested, was gene flow from another, as-yet-unknown but Denisovan-like hominid into the Sima de los Huesos group.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2013
• Makgadikgadi is littered with stone tools dropped there aeons ago by Palaeolithic hominids.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• What's certain is that some kind of hominid with sophisticated tool-making abilities lived in India at that time.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2018
• Sightings of the Mogollon Monster have been reported in the eastern part of Arizona and people have described a hairy hominid with human-like proportions that emits pungent smells.
  — The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• Over 40 percent of the Lucy skeleton was preserved, which helped reinforce the theory that hominids from this period walked upright, perhaps to carry food and infants.
  — Amiah Taylor, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024