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White, Tim D; Lovejoy, C Owen; Asfaw, Berhane; Carlson, Joshua P; Suwa, Gen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 04/2015, Letnik: 112, Številka: 16Journal Article
Australopithecus fossils were regularly interpreted during the late 20th century in a framework that used living African apes, especially chimpanzees, as proxies for the immediate ancestors of the human clade. Such projection is now largely nullified by the discovery of Ardipithecus . In the context of accumulating evidence from genetics, developmental biology, anatomy, ecology, biogeography, and geology, Ardipithecus alters perspectives on how our earliest hominid ancestors—and our closest living relatives—evolved.
