Crossword-Solution: HOMINID
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| Clue | Answers |
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| MANLIKE fossil | 1 answer |
| Neanderthal man, for one | 1 answer |
| Neanderthal, for one | 1 answer |
| Person, to anthropologists | 1 answer |
| Primate like us | 1 answer |
| fossil man | 1 answer |
| man or any extinct forerunner of man | 1 answer |
| Certain primate | 2 answers |
| Lucy, for one | 2 answers |
| Great ape | 6 answers |
| homo sapien | 8 answers |
| human nature | 15 answers |
| Homo sapiens | 16 answers |
| ETHNIC type | 27 answers |
| humanity | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HOMINID (5)
The chimpanzee and gorilla have retained, with only minor changes, the ancestral habits and habitus in brain, dentition, skull and limbs, while the forerunners of the Hominidæ, through a profound change in function, lost the primitive anthropoid habitus, gave up arboreal frugivorous adaptations and early became terrestrial, bipedal and predatory, using crude flints to cut up and smash the varied food.
The ancestral chimpanzee-gorilla-man stock appears to be represented by the Upper Miocene genera _Sivapithecus_ and _Dryopithecus_, the former more closely allied to, or directly ancestral to, the Hominidæ, the latter to the chimpanzee and gorilla.
The change in structure during this vast interval (two or more million years) is much greater in the Hominidæ than in the conservative anthropoids, but it is not unlikely that during a profound change of life habits evolution sometimes proceeds more rapidly than in the more familiar cases where uninterrupted adaptations proceed in a single direction.
One of the first medium-sized animals that the nascent Hominidæ would be successful in killing was the wild boar, which in the Pleistocene had a wide Palæarctic distribution.
The food habits of the early Hominidæ, and thus indirectly the jaws and teeth, were later modified through the use of fire for softening the food.
Quotes with HOMINID (3)
We cannot seem to help ourselves they said. Thus, the hominid spark of intelligence flares, burns everything around it, and fades. Some humans will survive the great conflagration. Thus, begins an endless cycle of destruction spiraling downward until our species is gone. We can hope that before the sun begins to become unstable (it is about half way there now) evolution can produce a new and better intelligence that will have sufficient breadth and depth to understand the eco…
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1991–2022).