Sequence and Environments of the Lower and Middle Miocene Hominoids of Western Kenya
Sequence and Environments of the Lower and Middle Miocene Hominoids of Western Kenya
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肯尼亚西部中新世下、中新世人科动物的序列和环境
DOI：
10.1007/978-1-4684-8854-8_16
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发表时间：
1983
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M. Pickford
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作者：
M. Pickford
人类学中一个广为流传的假说是，在人类进化的某个阶段，一定发生了从树栖森林生存到陆地大草原生存的适应性转变。这一想法背后的推论似乎是，大多数现存的类人猿生活在森林中，从而得出结论，这可能是原始的(半形性的)原始人适应。相比之下，人类适应了草原环境，这代表了类人猿中高度衍生(无形性)的情况。
A widespread hypothesis in anthropological science is that at some stage in the evolution of humans there must have been an adaptive shift from an arboreal forest existence to a terrestrial savannah one. The reasoning behind this idea seems to be that most extant apes are forest-dwelling, leading to the conclusion that this is probably the primitive (plesiomorphic) hominoid adaptation. Humans, in contrast, are adapted to savannah settings, and this represents a highly derived (apomorphic) condition among hominoids.