Australopithecus sediba: A New Species of Homo-Like Australopith from South Africa

被引：361

作者：

Berger, Lee R. ^{[1
,2
]}

de Ruiter, Darryl J. ^{[1
,3
]}

Churchill, Steven E. ^{[1
,4
]}

Schmid, Peter ^{[1
,5
]}

Carlson, Kristian J. ^{[1
,6
]}

Dirks, Paul H. G. M. ^{[2
,7
]}

Kibii, Job M. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Witwatersrand, Inst Human Evolut, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa

[2] Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Geosci, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa

[3] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Anthropol, College Stn, TX 77843 USA

[4] Duke Univ, Dept Evolutionary Anthropol, Durham, NC 27708 USA

[5] Univ Zurich, Anthropol Inst & Museum, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

[6] Indiana Univ, Dept Anthropol, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA

[7] James Cook Univ, Sch Earth & Environm Sci, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia

来源：

SCIENCE | 2010年 / 328卷 / 5975期

基金：

美国安德鲁·梅隆基金会; 新加坡国家研究基金会;

关键词：

OLDUVAI-GORGE; PLIOPLEISTOCENE HOMINID; SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT; LAKE TURKANA; EAST; STERKFONTEIN; CRANIA; SKELETON; ANATOMY; GENUS;

D O I：

10.1126/science.1184944

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Despite a rich African Plio-Pleistocene hominin fossil record, the ancestry of Homo and its relation to earlier australopithecines remain unresolved. Here we report on two partial skeletons with an age of 1.95 to 1.78 million years. The fossils were encased in cave deposits at the Malapa site in South Africa. The skeletons were found close together and are directly associated with craniodental remains. Together they represent a new species of Australopithecus that is probably descended from Australopithecus africanus. Combined craniodental and postcranial evidence demonstrates that this new species shares more derived features with early Homo than any other australopith species and thus might help reveal the ancestor of that genus.

引用

页码：195 / 204

页数：10

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