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Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- By combining deep learning algorithms and statistical methods, investigators have identified, in the genome of Asian individuals, the footprint of a new hominid who cross bred with its ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.

She suspects the earliest known stone tools were made either by relatively small-brained hominids or, perhaps in some cases, nonhuman primates.

Since finding Lucy, other fossils of the hominids were discovered but they were either older than 3 million years or younger than 2.3 million years.

Mark Thomas, evolutionary geneticist at University College London, has said that they think they are looking at 'Lord of the Rings' type world, where there were many hominid populations.

'Hominids therefore were thought to have disappeared from Europe prior to 9 million years ago.

"One of our goals was to try to find something out about early hominid landscape use," said lead researcher Professor Sandi Copeland, from the University of Colorado at Boulder, US.

Changes in the gastrointestinal tract evolved allowing the bodies of early hominids to allocate more resources to energy-intensive brain growth and maintenance.

Clearly Peking Man was making and using tools in the cave, so at least for a time this hominid had the upper hand over the hyenas.

Tattersall starts with a chapter on evolutionary processes, and then moves through sections dealing with the fossil record, hominid evolution, early humans, and the development of the first agricultural societies.

The spring-like tendons that developed in humans are not nearly as apparent in early hominids and apes.

A "HOMINID" is an animal of the family "Hominidae" which includes man and many of our close, now extinct, two-footed ancestors.

They are the earliest known hominids of human lineage, according to three articles on the discovery appearing in Nature magazine, which was published Thursday.