最初のチンパンジーの化石が発見された

Sally McBrearty¹, Nina G Jablonski

¹Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Box U-2176, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA. mcbrearty@uconn.edu

Nature

|September 2, 2005

まとめ

ケニアでチンパンジーの化石が発見された.

科学分野:

古人類学は,古人類学である.
霊長類の進化について

背景:

チンパンジー (パン) の化石記録は顕著に欠けていて,大量に存在するヒト類の化石とは対照的です.
現在,チンパンジーの個体数は西アフリカと中央アフリカの森林に限られているが,大部分のヒト類の化石は東アフリカのリフト・バレーで見つかっている.

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