New China net news: British Broadcasting Corporation website on December 18 publishes the article, the topic is “fossil is this year’s breakthrough”, the abstract was as follows.

    Was has in 4.4 million, possibly is the human ancestor’s extinct organism skeleton fossil discovery, wins this year the most key science breakthrough ranking first prize.

    Concerns this discovery series scientific research report to publish in American “Science” which October publishes.

    It regards as by this magazine editor this year the most important scientific payoffs.

    This year this magazine selects ten Big Science breaks through, involves from the space science to the gene science and other domains.

    The ape first ancestor plants first batch fossil was unearthed in 1994. The scientists realized its importance immediately. But because these ancient human skeletons’ conditions are bad, therefore the researchers used for 15 years to carry on the excavation and analysis. This excavation brings the most important discovery is female ape first ancestor’s some skeletons, now this skeleton by the nickname is “Ardi”.

    An international scientific group publishes in October in “Science” unveiled this skeleton’s mystical veil for the first time.

    They after its skull, tooth, pelvis and hands and feet carries on the thorough examination discovered that Ardi already has his ancestor’s some “primitively” characteristic, had with afterward primitive humanity or the kind of person biology a total of “derivation characteristic”.

(Chief-editor: Liu Xiaojun)