2003年5月1日

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我们自己的祖先

备受争议的新化石可能使科学家比以往任何时候都更接近人类的起源

作者：凯特·王 (Kate Wong)

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Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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SA Special Editions Vol 13 Issue 2sThis article was originally published with the title “An Ancestor to Call Our Own” in SA Special Editions Vol. 13 No. 2s (), p. 4
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0503-4sp
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