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近10年在非洲、欧洲及亚洲发现了一批与早期人类起源密切相关的中新世中晚期古猿化石,其中在东非新发现的具有直立行走功能的地猿始祖种家族祖先亚种及原始人图根种在年代上已达到或接近6MaBP.这些发现及研究提示,非洲作为早期人类起源及人猿最近的共同祖先的生存地的可能性是极大的.而迄今在欧亚地区,包括中国云南发现的中新世古猿化石尚不能提供作为人猿共同祖先,或向后期人类演化的可靠证据.新的发现使得人们不得不对涉及古猿向早期人类过渡、人猿共同祖先的分支时间、区分人猿的标准、早期人类起源的环境等人类演化的传统观点进行重新考虑.对在云南元谋发现的古猿化石的研究及其性质的认识,存在一些需要进一步深入探讨和澄清的问题,其中也反映出目前国际学术界在中新世古猿研究领域共同面临的难题.正是由于这些问题的存在,导致了对化石特征辨识乃至古猿系统演化关系理解的偏差.
Nearly 10 years in Africa, Europe and Asia have discovered a group of early mankind and closely related to the Middle Miocene fossils of the Middle Ages fossils, which found in East Africa with upright walking function of the progenitor Australopithecus progenitor family of ancestral subspecies and primitive The genus Tupu has reached or approached 6 Ma BP in the years and these discoveries and studies suggest that the possibility of Africa as a place of habitat for early human origins and recent common ancestors of great apes is enormous and so far in Eurasia including China The discovery of Miocene paleontology in Yunnan has not yet provided credible evidence of the common ancestor or evolution of later humans, which has led to the need to distinguish between the ape-related branch of the common ancestor, the ancient ape to the early humans, the common ancestor of the ape Standards and early human origins of the environment and other human evolution of the traditional view to reconsider.On the found in Yunnan Yuanmou study of the paleoptic fossil and its nature, there are some issues that need further in-depth discussion and clarification, which also reflects the current The international academic community in the field of Miocene Miao research common problems.It is precisely because of these problems, Which led to the deviation from the understanding of the fossil features and even the evolution of the ancient ape system.