...Their morphological characteristics are clearly different from those of the ape-men, early man, and archaic humans that preceded them, and they have been given the scientific name Homo sapiens sapiens (Homo means "man" and Sapiens means "wise"). All humans who have lived on Earth from the Würm I Interglacial Stage, about 30,000 years ago, in the Late Pleistocene, to the present, fall into the category of modern humans, but the modern humans of the Pleistocene, that is, the Late Paleolithic humans, are called fossil modern humans, Homo sapiens fossilis , and are distinguished from the modern humans that came after them. When comparing the morphology of bones and teeth, which are the only clues to the physical characteristics of past humans, with modern humans and other fossil humans, the following differences can be seen. ... *Some of the terminology that mentions "Homo sapiens fossilis" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…その形態特徴は,時代的に先行する猿人,原人,旧人段階の人類とは明らかに異なり,Homo sapiens sapiens(ホモは〈人〉,サピエンスは〈賢明な〉の意)という学名が与えられている。今から約3万年前,後期更新世のウルム第1亜間氷期から現在にいたる間に地球上に生息した人類は,すべて新人の範疇に入るが,更新世の新人,すなわち後期旧石器時代人は化石現生人類Homo sapiens fossilisと呼ばれ,それ以後の新人と区別されている。 過去の人類の身体特徴を知る唯一の手がかりである骨・歯の形態について,新人と他の化石人類を比較すると次のような差異が認められる。… ※「Homo sapiens fossilis」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。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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