Now the most human-like australopithecine found to date is clarifying thingsand staking aclaim to be the species from which early humans evolved.
而目前发现的与人类长得最像的南猿,让一切变得清晰起来,同时,它也被确定是后来进化为早期人类的物种。
Fossils of the new species, Australopithecus sediba, were discovered in 2008 in a cave inSouth Africa.
新发现的物种化石南猿源泉种于2008年在南非一个山洞中被发现。
Initial research, led by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg,concluded that the species came too late in the fossil record to be the ancestor of the Homolineage.
约翰内斯堡的威特沃特斯兰德大学教授Lee Berger,带领的研究团队经初步研究发现,新物种是化石史上最接近猿人谱系的祖先。
This week, however, a range of new research into sediba, again led by Dr Berger, has beenpublished in Science.
本周,科学杂志发表了 Berger博士对源泉种的一系列新发现,
These studies conclude that sediba did in fact predate Homo erectus and, moreover, thatparts of its anatomy are surprisingly similar to modern man.
称源泉种实际上要早于直立猿人,并且其结构的某些部分与现代人也极为相似。
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