Australopithecus boijii

Japanese: アウストラロピテクス・ボイジイ - あうすとらろぴてくすぼいじい
Australopithecus boijii


[The sturdy ape-man]
Since R. Bloom gave the scientific name Paranthropus robustus to a fossil excavated at Kromdraai in South Africa in 1938, many fossils have been discovered in South and East Africa. The first fossil from East Africa was a skull fossil named Zinjanthropus boijii by L. Leakey in 1959, but Leakey himself soon changed the scientific name to Australopithecus boijii. Today, the whole species is considered to be one species, and is often called Australopithecus robustus.

From [Zinjantropus]

…However, soon many scholars, including Leakey himself, came to accept Zinjanthropus as a synonym of Australopithecus. Today, it is often referred to as Australopithecus boisii or Australopithecus robustus, including the fossils of the same species found in East Africa. [Mitsuo Iwamoto]. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Australopithecus boisei" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[がんじょうな猿人]
 1938年,R.ブルームが南アフリカのクロムドラーイで出土の化石にパラントロプス・ロブストゥスの学名を与えて以来,南および東アフリカで多数の化石が発見されてきた。東アフリカからは,1959年にL.リーキーがジンジャントロプス・ボイジイと名づけた頭骨化石が最初であるが,まもなくリーキー自身が,その学名を,アウストラロピテクス・ボイジイに変更した。現在は全体を一つの種とみなして,アウストラロピテクス・ロブストゥスの学名で呼ぶことが多くなっている。…

【ジンジャントロプス】より

…しかしまもなく,リーキー自身も含めて多くの学者が,ジンジャントロプスをアウストラロピテクスと同義語と認めるようになった。現在は東アフリカで発見されている同類の化石をも含めて,アウストラロピテクス・ボイジイ,ないしはアウストラロピテクス・ロブストゥスの学名で呼ぶことが多い。【岩本 光雄】。…

※「アウストラロピテクス・ボイジイ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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