hominid

• I'd just like to point out, if you look at the map of Africa, it does actually look like a hominid skull in its shape. —  Louise Leakey digs for humanity's origins
• The jaw was definitely from a Lucylike hominid (the scientific term used to distinguish the early human ancestors who stood up and walked erect from our more distant apelike relatives who moved about on all fours). —  Omni: May 1994
• "It's the oldest, most complete skull we have of a hominid, and it gives us a glimpse of what this early, primitive species irrefutably looked like." —  Omni: May 1994
• It discussed the light sculptures with Rathere, comparing their evanescent forms to the shattered structures of Camelia Parker or the hominid blobs of Henry Moore. —  F ;SF - vol 098 issue 04 - April 2000
• He may be—well, I think anthropologists are still arguing about what the proper designation for this kind of hominid is, aren't they? —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2002

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