(1)推理判断题。根据第一段Humans evolved (进化) from apes.This is what we learned in biology class.But what came before apes?Chinese scientists have discovered fossils that could enrich the evolutionary story of how humans evolved from fish.(人类由
The new fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus - known as 'Ardi' - offer the first substantial view of the biology of a species close to the time of the last common ancestor shared by humans and apes. Like modern humans, Ardi could walk upright (see depiction, right) and didn't use her arms...
Berger suggests the face of Australopithecus sediba would resemble that of other early human species, despite their more apelike limbs. They climbed trees like orangutans (猩猩),he says, but walked upright like people and unlike apes. Perhaps searching for water during a drought, the pair ...
“Our study points to a three-step evolution of human bipedalism,” adds Terry Harrison, aNew York Universityanthropologist and one of the paper’s co-authors. “First, the earliest apes moved in the trees in a style that was most similar to aspects of the way that gibbons in Asia do t...
What Makes a Fossil Human? According to Darwin, one of the main characteristics that separate hominins (humans) from hominids (great apes like gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans) is bipedalism—walking upright on two feet. To prove that Lucy was indeed an ancient human, Johanson had to show...
A set of fossilized human-like footprints in Greece may end up rewriting the story of human evolution Andrzej Boczarowski We share plenty of features with apes, but the shape of our feet isn't one of them. So that makes the discovery of human-like footprints dating back 5.7 million years...
The fossil, nicknamed Ida, is claimed to be a "missing link" between today's higherprimates3- monkeys, apes and humans - and more distant relatives. But some independent experts, awaiting an opportunity to see the new fossil, are sceptical of the claim. ...
“Selam,” a skull and associated skeleton of anAustralopithecus afarensisinfant found at Dikika in 2000, has an unambiguous impression of the lunate sulcus–a fissure in the occipital lobe marking the boundary of the visual area that is more prominent and located more forw...
The fossil, nicknamed Ida, is claimed to be a "missing link" between today's higher primates - monkeys, apes and humans - and more distant relatives. But some independent experts, awaiting an opportunity to see the new fossil, are sceptical of the claim. And they have been critical of ...
Scientists have been trying for quite some time to nail down the earliest parts of human evolution, but have been stymied by a lack offossil evidence. Geneticists have shown that humans and great apes share a common lineage, which has led to efforts by archeologists and others to find evidenc...