In six research papers published in Science, an international team described how the hominids had almost-human hands attached to apelike arms, a rib cage that was narrow like an ape's at the top but more humanlike lower down, and a spine that likely had the same number of vertebrae as a human.

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Humans spread out, exterminated the easy prey and probably the competing hominids and populated the livable earth.

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If so, it raises the possibility that hominids colonised South-East Asia at least two million years ago.

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Americans are possibly the least tradition-bound of hominids, having, in the main, left their sentimental attachments behind in whatever unhappy place they or their families came from.

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The discovery of the remains of at least nine primitive hominids of similar age to the latest find was announced in January.

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Another project being carried out at the lab is looking at the signals of juvenile development left in the teeth of fossil hominids.

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This suggests that hominids may have had the potential to speak for quite some time.

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Certainly something must explain the success of Homo sapiens, and the speed with which the species spread and swept other hominids away.

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These curious hominids lived about two million years ago in an era that scientists consider the crucible of human evolution, when four or more apelike hominid species struggled for survival in Africa.

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