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
  • 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
  • Many of the bones seem to bear the marks of butchering by tool-wielding hominins.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2018
  • What this means is that there may be lots more hominin bones in people's floors and showers.
    — Ashley Belanger – May 22, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2025
  • 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
  • An ancient hominin further shaped the tool with the aid of a stone or bone hammer.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
  • At the time, six hominin fossils were collected from the site.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2017
  • Around this time hominin body and brain size nearly doubled, while teeth and jaws got smaller.
    — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Since that split, hominins evolved distinctive sleep habits still with us today.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
  • How these hominins were able to share the landscape is a question the team is working to answer.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Over eons, plant and animal remains (not to mention hominins) have been found in the caves.
    — Lydia Pyne, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
  • The new findings also pose questions about how ancient hominins walked.
    — Humberto Basilio, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The team decided against naming this hominin a new species given the few remains found to date.
    — Matthew Twombly, National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2021
  • It is suggested that the hominins who made these tools must have been capable of a sea crossing.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Later hominins could have made the etchings, which are undated.
    — Byann Gibbons, science.org, 5 June 2023
  • Or hominins could have killed and butchered the unfortunate victim before big cats got to the scraps.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • These costs are thought to have hindered how hominins used these foods and delayed their adoption into our diets.
    — Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The researchers note that apes have long arms and short legs, whereas hominins have relatively long legs.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • But might Sulawesi have its own diminutive hominins?
    — ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Ancient hominins are believed to have started eating meat around 2 and a half million years ago.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
  • This site played a central role in pinpointing the presence of hominins in Australia.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The discovery shows that one hominin lineage had grasping feet for at least a million years after Ar.
    — Brian Switek, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2012
  • The research has even identified a kind of hominin, the Denisovan, for which there are scant fossil remains.
    — Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • 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

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