エチオピアで発見された380万年前のヒト族のほぼ完全な頭蓋骨化石について記述した2編の論文が、今週掲載される。著者は、この頭蓋骨がアウストラロピテクス・アナメンシス（Australopithecus anamensis）種のものだとしており、最も原始的な ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists on Wednesday announced the landmark discovery in Ethiopia of a nearly complete skull of an early human ancestor that lived 3.8 million years ago, a species boasting ...

初期人類の揺籃の地であったエチオピアで発掘調査を精力的に行っているT Whiteたちが、人類進化史の新たな部分に相当する複数の化石を発見した。これらは420万年前のアナム猿人（Australopithecus anamensis）の化石で、この種は現生人類の直接の祖先だと考え ...

Australopithecus anamensis, abbreviated as Au. anamensis, lived between about 4.2 million and 3.8 million years ago. The primates sported a mixture of traits both primitive and humanlike. The species ...

An international team of scientists has discovered 4.1 million year old fossils in eastern Ethiopia that fill a missing gap in human evolution. The teeth and bones belong to a primitive species of ...

Scientists have recreated the face of an early human ancestor after a "remarkably complete" skull dating back 3.8 million years was found in Ethiopia. Researchers dug up the cranium at the ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...