gracile in English

adjective
1
(of a hominid species) of slender build.
But today, there are eight putative species of early gracile hominid - and a number of the most recent and most ancient have characteristics that might force a re-interpretation of our earliest ancestry.
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1. According to genetic studies led by Lynch Alfaro in 2011, the gracile and robust capuchins diverged approximately 6.2 million years ago.

2. Anatomically modern humans have relatively gracile skeletons and teeth, with crania exhibiting characteristic traits such as a vertical forehead, expanded parietal bones, a nonprojecting face, and the presence of a chin

3. In 1988, Gregory S. Paul noted that Brachiosaurus brancai (on which most popular depictions of Brachiosaurus were based) showed significant differences from the North American Brachiosaurus, especially in the proportions of its trunk vertebrae and in its more gracile build.

4. Definition of Australopithecus : a genus of extinct early hominids of southern and eastern Africa comprising the australopithecines when considered to include both the gracile and robust forms The advanced prehuman Australopithecus first appears in the middle Pliocene, 3.5 million years ago …

5. Australopithecine definition is - any of various extinct hominids (genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus) that existed two to four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and include gracile and robust forms exhibiting bipedal locomotion, near-human dentition, and relatively small brains.

6. Australopithecus The genus Australopithecus (Latin australis "southern", Greek πίθηκος pithekos "ape") is a genus of extinct hominids, made up of the gracile australopiths, and formerly also included their larger relatives, the robust australopiths (which are now given their own genus)

7. Two general types are recognized, those with lighter (gracile) bone structure, assigned to the genus Australopithecus, and those with a sturdier (robust) build, assigned to the genus Paranthropus (the members of Paranthropus are sometimes treated as also belonging Australopithecus).Known fossils attributed to these forms range from about 1.2 to 4.2

8. The Bonobo (/ b ə ˈ n oʊ b oʊ, ˈ b ɒ n ə b oʊ /; Pan paniscus), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan; the other being the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

9. The Bonobo (IPA: /bəˈnoʊboʊ/, Pan paniscus), until recently usually called the Pygmy Chimpanzee (and less often the Dwarf or Gracile Chimpanzee), is one of the two species making up the chimpanzee genus, Pan.The other species in genus Pan is Pan troglodytes, or the Common Chimpanzee.Although the name "chimpanzee" is sometimes used to refer to both species together, it is usually understood

10. In 144 pull-through-operations performed for anorectal-atresia, following complications were observed: pneumonia 11%, sepsis 8.3%, peritonitis 5%, bowel obstruction 5%, osteomyelitis 1%, retraction of the pulled-through colon 4%, anal stenosis 16%, secondary megacolon 9%, fistula relapse 8%, mucosal prolapse 4%. Recto-urethral, recto-vesical- and recto-vaginal fistula relapses are managed by interposition of the gracile muscle.