How to Use hominid in a Sentence

hominid

1 of 2 noun
  • Or was this hominid more like a chimp than like us?
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Since then, scientists have found much older and more complete hominids.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland, 24 Oct. 2019
  • That link only appeared once hominids began to live alongside large mammals.
    — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2018
  • 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 shouldn’t be too surprising, however, given the world ancient hominids lived in.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 14 June 2023
  • Lucy is one the world’s most complete and best-preserved hominids ― a prehistoric ancestor to humans.
    — Dallas News, 28 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Makgadikgadi is littered with stone tools dropped there aeons ago by Palaeolithic hominids.
    — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Within the United States, researchers believe there are likely more than one species of giant hominid.
    — David Ferry, Outside Online, 5 July 2016
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Denisovan hominid was first detected at the Denisova Cave in Siberia.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2018
  • Already, their results support a more nuanced understanding of our ancient hominid cousins.
    — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • War is the worst evil that people have inflicted upon one another, at costs to themselves, since some hominid discovered the lethal efficacy of rocks.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The hominid resembled ancient human lineages more closely than modern-day humans, even though researchers found it in a relatively young fossil bed.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 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
  • The discovery, and research done on a cave full of 15 skeletons nearby, strongly suggests the little hominids were much less ancient than previously thought.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 9 May 2017
  • One way of exploring musicality before Stone Age flautists crashed Europe is to study hominid anatomy.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2018
  • Many hominids went extinct during this period, and being able to consume alcohol without adverse and/or toxic effects would have conferred a survival advantage.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • An acoustic guitar and a synthesizer sit beside a sofa, and above the sofa hangs a large neo-expressionist painting by his sister, depicting a pair of fantastical hominids.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2007
  • 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

hominid

2 of 2 adjective
  • This led to scientists missing the hominid footprints entirely.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 2021-04-13
  • Not long after our hominid ancestors branched off the evolutionary tree of our current chimpanzee cousins, their brains underwent a rapid expansion, nearly tripling in size over a span of 3 million years.
    — Tim Childers, Popular Mechanics, 2020-11-16
  • The fossil remains of an early hominid child have been discovered in a cave in South Africa by a team of international and South African researchers.
    — Sebabatso Mosamo, USA TODAY, 2021-11-07

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