Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• White, Tim D
• Lovejoy, C Owen
• Asfaw, Berhane
• Carlson, Joshua P
• Suwa, Gen

Titel

Neither chimpanzee nor human, Ardipithecus reveals the surprising ancestry of both

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2015-04, Vol.112 (16), p.4877-4884

Ort / Verlag

United States: National Acad Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.