How to Use hominin in a Sentence

hominin

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Pääbo and his colleagues also made the startling discovery of a new hominin species, Denisovans.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2022
• In this time period, modern humans were likely the only hominin species left in Africa, and had already spread to many other parts of the globe.
  — Popular Science, 20 May 2020
• Looking back 3 million years, to the age of Australopiths, no one would have expected the hominin lineage to amount to much.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024