Strong Ape Man - Strong Engineer

Japanese: がんじょうな猿人 - がんじょうなえんじん
Strong Ape Man - Strong Engineer

...The oldest known ape-man fossil, dating back about 5 million years, is a fragment of a lower jaw discovered at Rosagamu near Lake Turkana in Kenya, which is said to resemble a delicate ape-man, but no details have been reported.
[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.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the "hardy ape-man" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…なお,今から約500万年前の最古の猿人化石として,ケニアのトゥルカナ湖に近いロサガムで発見されている下顎片があり,きゃしゃな猿人のものに類すると言われているが,詳細は報告されていない。
[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。…

※「がんじょうな猿人」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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