A delicate ape-man - A delicate engineer

Japanese: きゃしゃな猿人 - きゃしゃなえんじん
A delicate ape-man - A delicate engineer

...An ancient ape-man dating back three hundred thousand years.
[Slender Ape-Man]
Since R. Dart gave the scientific name Australopithecus africanus to the skull of an infant excavated from Taung, South Africa in 1925, many fossils have been discovered in South and East Africa. It is called the A-type ape-man after the initials of the genus name Australopithecus, or the a-type ape-man after the initials of the species name Africanus, and is also called the g-type ape-man because it is commonly known as the "delicate gracile ape-man."

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "delicate ape-man" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…今から三百数十万年前までさかのぼる古い時期の猿人である。
[きゃしゃな猿人]
 1925年,R.ダートが南アフリカのタウング出土の幼児頭骨にアウストラロピテクス・アフリカヌ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。属名アウストラロピテクスの頭文字にちなんでAタイプ,あるいは種名アフリカヌスの頭文字にちなんでaタイプの猿人と呼ばれ,また,〈きゃしゃなgracile猿人〉の通称でよく知られることから,gタイプの猿人とも呼ばれる。…

※「きゃしゃな猿人」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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