普莱斯托时代的智人来自埃塞俄比亚的Middle Awash,埃塞俄比亚
Tim D White1, Berhane Asfaw, David DeGusta
1Department of Integrative Biology and Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3160, USA. timwhite@socrates.berkeley.edu
Nature
|June 13, 2003
概括
在埃塞俄比亚发现的化石头骨为Homo sapiens的出现提供了关键证据. 这些16万年前的化石代表了现代人类可能的直系祖先,支持非洲起源.
科学领域:
- 古人类学古人类学.
- 人类进化人类进化
- 非洲古生物学 非洲古生物学
背景情况:
- 解剖学上现代的Homo sapiens的起源和尼安德特人的灭绝是人类进化研究的核心.
- 在非洲的化石证据 (100,000300,000年前) 中存在一个显著的差距,这阻碍了对人类起源的理解.
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