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Early hominids likely possessed fur similar to other large apes, but about 2. 5 million years ago they developed a greater distribution of sweat glands that enabled them to perspire over most of the body.
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Early and hominids
Early hominids, the ancestors of humans, appeared in Africa.
This drawing, by Rudolph Zallinger, was published in the Time-Life book Early Man in 1965 and shows a sequence of primates walking from left to right, starting with a non-human ape on the left, progressing through a series of hominids, and finishing with a modern human on the right.
Early and likely
Early inhabitants, around 3000 BC were likely to have been connected through culture and trade to neighboring civilizations like Jiroft and Tappeh Sialk and more distantly to the Indus Valley Civilization.
MP Diane Abbott called the decision to withdraw the advert ' ill-considered ' and ' likely to offend the gay community ' in an Early Day Motion on June 25.
Examples include, " Nerds of a feather flock together ", " Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and likely to talk about it ," and " Absence makes the heart grow wander ".
During the Early Bronze Age ( 3200-1950 BC ), many villages were built that included defensive fortifications, most likely to protect against marauding nomadic tribes.
Early necromancy was related to – and most likely evolved from – shamanism, which calls upon spirits such as the ghosts of ancestors.
Early " Proto-Cossack " groups very likely came into existence within the territories of today's Ukraine in the mid-13th century as the Golden Horde influence grew weak.
Early studies found men with homosexual contact were more likely to have a very large number of sexual partners, but a 1989 study found a very high number of partners ( over 100 ) to be present though rare in that demographic.
* Early defibrillation-is effective for the management of ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia If defibrillation is delayed the rhythm is likely to degenerate into asystole for which outcomes are worse.
The genus Gerandia has been described from Early Miocene deposits of France, but while it was long believed to be a pigeon it is more likely a sandgrouse.
Early on, trainers began to recognize which breeds produced dogs most appropriate for guide work ; today, Golden Retrievers, Labradors, and German Shepherds are most likely to be chosen by guide dog facilities, although other breeds, such as Yorkshire Terriers, Standard Poodles, Collies, Border Collies, Australian Shepherds, Papillons, Vizslas, Dobermans, Rottweilers, Boxers, and Airedale Terriers, may also be selected.
Early in the Edo period, the shogunate viewed the tozama as the least likely to be loyal ; over time, strategic marriages and the entrenchment of the system made the tozama less likely to rebel.
Early blackface minstrels often said that their material was largely or entirely authentic to African-American culture ; John Strausbaugh, author of Black Like You, said that such claims were likely to be untrue.
Early uncial script is likely to have developed from late Old Roman cursive.
A date of no earlier than 1100 BCE for the Huastecs ’ arrival at their present location seems most likely, since they probably had not arrived at the north-central Veracruz site of Santa Luisa until about 1200 BCE, the phase at the end of the Early Formative period known locally as the " Ojite phase.
Early settlers were likely attracted by easily mined iron ore and a ford in the Meurthe River.
Early meeting of the Christiana Bridge congregation were likely held at private residences until 1850, when a brick structure was built for worship.
Early symptoms are likely to be fever often followed by a sore throat.
Named after the Coast Mountains, the basement of this arc was likely Early Cretaceous and Late Jurassic intrusions from the Insular Islands.
Early concerns arose about the large cost of staging the Games, with projected costs likely to be over 1 billion Australian dollars and a high likelihood the Victorian taxpayer would have to cover the expense.
It was included in the " Common Stonechat " ( Saxicola torquata ), but it is quite distinct ; it is likely to be an insular derivative of ancestral European Stonechats that colonised the islands some 1-2 mya, during the Early Pleistocene ( Wink et al.
Early motherhood can affect the psychosocial development of the infant. The children of teen mothers are more likely to be born prematurity and low birth weight predisposing them to many other lifelong conditions.
More likely, they are an extinct species of Tadorna ( if not a distinct genus ) due to their Early Pliocene age ; the present species is not unequivocally attested from the fossil record until some 2-3 million years later ( Late Pliocene / Early Pleistocene ).
Early and possessed
< td valign =" top "> Early Christians considered a child as having a soul at birth, although possessed by evil tendencies.
Both the Second Religiousness and Caesarism demonstrate the lack of youthful strength or creativity that the Early Culture once possessed.
Early amphicyonids, such as Daphoenodon possessed a digitigrade posture and locomotion ( walking on their toes ), while many of the later and larger species were plantigrade or semiplantigrade.
Imbas forosnai, is a special gift of clairvoyance believed to be possessed by the poets, and Druids, in Early Ireland.
Macedonia possessed a distinct material culture by the Early Iron Age.
Early and fur
Early contact was with Russian fur traders who sought sea otters in these islands.
Early in the 19th century, the Northwest Fur Company sent two white fur trappers west of the Rocky Mountains to search for fur.
Early contact between foreigners and natives was largely limited to the fur trade in the headwaters and sporadic trade interactions along the lower river.
Early in the fur trade era this meant circumventing the normal channels by going deeper into the wilderness to trade.
Early European settlers ( French and Métis voyageurs ) brought French chansons, which they sang while traveling along their fur trade routes.
Early Dutch breeders told buyers they were the offspring of chickens and rabbits, while sideshows promoted them as having actual mammalian fur.
Early in the trek, Glass established himself as a hard-working fur trapper.
Eran I. Argov, ' A Church Historian in Search of an Identity: Aspects of Early Byzantine Palestine in Sozomen's Historia Ecclesiastica, Zeitschrift fur Antikes Christentum 9 ( 2005 ), pp. 367-396.
" Early fur traders were often welcomed with this phrase which they eventually adopted as the name of the trading post.
Early fur traders found an established portage route from what is now Fort Fitzgerald, Alberta on the western bank of the Slave River to Fort Smith.
* " Constance Bay: Early French fur traders named bay after chief.
Early and similar
It is written in English, very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 108 languages.
Early Carboniferous land plants, some of which were preserved in coal balls, were very similar to those of the preceding Late Devonian, but new groups also appeared at this time.
Early examples were fairly similar in appearance to incandescent light bulbs.
Early house producers like Frankie Knuckles created similar compositions from scratch, using samplers, synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines.
Early in 1994 Major vetoed the Belgian politician Jean-Luc Dehaene as President of the European Commission ( in succession to Jacques Delors ) for being excessively federalist, only to find that he had to accept a Luxembourg politician of similar views, Jacques Santer, instead.
Early photos show the Merzbau with a grotto-like surface and various columns and sculptures, possibly referring to similar pieces by Dadaists, including the Great Plasto-Dio-Dada-Drama by Johannes Baader, shown at the first International Dada Fair, Berlin, 1920.
Early ratification by the United States will encourage similar action by other nations whose participation is also essential.
Early minivans featured one rear side sliding door on the passenger's side, similar to full-sized passenger vans in the early 1980s.
Early forms are very similar in many ways to certain forms of voulge, while 16th century and later forms are similar to the pollaxe.
Notable types of Early medieval spears include the Angon, a throwing spear with a long head similar to the Roman pilum, used by the Franks and Anglo-Saxons and the winged ( or lugged ) spear, which had two prominent wings at the base of the spearhead, either to prevent the spear penetrating too far into an enemy or to aid in spear fencing.
Early 90 ° V6 engines derived from V8 engines had three shared crankpins arranged at 120 ° from each other, similar to an inline 3-cylinder.
A similar plan was proposed in 1989 by J. T. Early, and again in 1997 by Edward Teller, Lowell Wood, and Roderick Hyde.
Early katsuretsu was usually beef ; the pork version, similar to today's tonkatsu, is said to have been first served in 1890 in a Western-food restaurant in Ginza, Tokyo.
Early 1990s and mid-1980s ravers often followed similar principles as did the original hippie generation, but did not use this coinage to describe their beliefs.
The Norman cryptThe east end was rebuilt over the Norman crypt by Alexander Mason between 1224 and 1269, coinciding with, and in a very similar Early English style to Salisbury Cathedral.
A large number of similar sealings were found from the slightly later Early Dynastic I phase at Ur, in a slightly different order, combined with the rosette symbol of Inanna, that were definitely used for this purpose.
Other similar sets of cards published since that time are entitled, " Early Jazz Greats " and " Pioneers of Country Music ".
Early settlers to the region were hunter-gather tribes similar to those in North Alabama.
For example, the dentition of the Early Cretaceous monotreme Steropodon is similar to those of Peramus and dryolestoids, which suggests that monotremes are related to some pre-tribosphenic therian mammals, but, on the other hand, the status of neither of these two groups is well-established.
Later the discovery of a whole series of similar lobopod animals, some with closer resemblances to arthropods, and the development of the idea of stem groups suggested that the Early Cambrian was a time of relatively fast evolution but one that could be understood without assuming any unique evolutionary processes.
Early CD playback equipment also tended to be expensive compared to cassette equipment of similar quality and did not offer recording capability.
Since SPEWS became inactive, the Anonymous Postmaster Early Warning System ( APEWS ) has taken its place, using similar listing criteria and a nearly identical web page.
In the Early Iron Age, Maiden Castle was generally unexceptional ; it was one of over 100 hill forts of similar size built around the same time in the area that is now Berkshire, Dorset, Hampshire, and Wiltshire.
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