Neither chimpanzee nor human, Ardipithecus reveals the surprising ancestry of both
Neither chimpanzee nor human, Ardipithecus reveals the surprising ancestry of both
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地猿既不是黑猩猩也不是人类，揭示了两者令人惊讶的血统
DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1403659111
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发表时间：
2015
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G. Suwa
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作者：
Tim D. White;C. Owen Lovejoy;B. Asfaw;Joshua P. Carlson;G. Suwa
在世纪后期，人们经常在一个框架内解释南方古猿化石，该框架使用活的非洲猿，特别是黑猩猩，作为人类分支的直系祖先的代理人。这种推测现在由于地猿的发现而在很大程度上被推翻了。在从遗传学、发育生物学、解剖学、生态学、地理学和地质学积累证据的背景下，地猿改变了我们最早的原始人类祖先以及我们最近的亲属是如何进化的观点。
Australopithecus fossils were regularly interpreted during the late 20th century in a framework that used living African apes, especially chimpanzees, as proxies for the immediate ancestors of the human clade. Such projection is now largely nullified by the discovery of Ardipithecus. In the context of accumulating evidence from genetics, developmental biology, anatomy, ecology, biogeography, and geology, Ardipithecus alters perspectives on how our earliest hominid ancestors—and our closest living relatives—evolved.