Schmid P
Folia Primatol (Basel). 1983;40(4):283-306. doi: 10.1159/000156111.
The partial skeleton of Australopithecus from the Hadar Formation, Ethiopia, is reconstructed and compared with other primates. It is demonstrated that the skull of A.L. 288-1 is not as chimplike as it was proposed for Australopithecus afarensis and that the cranial fragments do not differ from Australopithecus africanus. Structural features like the funnelshaped thorax and the pelvis, with its broad iliaca for insertion of musculus latissimus dorsi and the long lever arm of the pubic muscular attachments, invoke a high level of suspensorial behavior. In our opinion, A. africanus is a generalized hominid primate that differs from the specialized African apes, the living pongids beeing too derived to represent a model of a primitive hominoid or hominid ancestor.
来自埃塞俄比亚哈达尔组的南方古猿部分骨骼被重建，并与其他灵长类动物进行了比较。结果表明，A.L. 288 - 1的头骨并不像之前所认为的那样与阿法南方古猿相似，而且这些颅骨碎片与非洲南方古猿并无差异。漏斗状的胸廓和骨盆等结构特征，其宽阔的髂骨用于背阔肌的附着，耻骨肌肉附着处的长臂，则表明其具有高度的悬垂行为。我们认为，非洲南方古猿是一种广义的原始人类灵长类动物，与特化的非洲猿不同，现存的猩猩类过于特化，无法代表原始类人猿或原始人类祖先的模型。
