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《科学新闻》 第208卷 第6期 · 2026年6月刊 · 中文解读

现代猿类可能并非起源于东非

Modern apes may not have evolved in East Africa
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一项新研究在埃及发现了一种约1700万年前的早期猿类化石,表明现代猿类可能起源于北非或中东,而非东非。
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New fossil findings reported in Science unveil Masripithecus, a roughly 17-million-year-old early ape that lived in what is now Egypt. The discovery expands the earliest ancestry of gibbons, chimpanzees and humans beyond East Africa. That’s where the vast majority of the fossil evidence for early modern apes came from until now, says paleontologist Shorouq Al-Ashqar at Mansoura University in Egypt. “The entire story [of modern ape evolution] was told by only a small corner of the continent,” Al-Ashqar says. Fossil monkeys from North Africa and the Middle East have been dated to this time period, the Early Miocene, up to about 20 million years ago. But no apes, she says. …
摘自《科学新闻》(Science News)第208卷 第6期 · 2026年6月刊。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。
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