2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Excavation of Late Miocene hominoid in Nakali, Kenya : Phylogeny, adaptations and paleoenvironment
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18255006
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Anthropology
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKATSUKASA Masato Kyoto University, 大学院・理学研究科, 教授 (00227828)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KUNIMATSU Yutaka 京都大学, 霊長類研究所, 助教 (80243111)
NAKAYA Hideo 鹿児島大学, 大学院・理工学研究科, 教授 (20180424)
SAKAI Tetsuya 島根大学, 総合理工学部, 准教授 (90303809)
SAWADA Yoshihiro 島根大学, 総合理工学部, 教授 (80196328)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2009
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| Keywords | 中新世 / ヒト上科 / オナガザル上科 / 化石 / 東アフリカ / 進化 |
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| Research Abstract |
Nakali in Kenya is one of a few 10 million-years-old fossil localities in Africa and crucial in understanding the origins of the human and extant African ape lineages. This project discovered a rich primate fauna, which includes a great ape Nakalipithecus and several other catarrhines and gave hints on their niche partitioning and paleoenvironment. Nakalipithecus is thought to be closely related to the last common ancestor of human and African apes and possibly to be ancestral to the Greek ape Ouranopithecus. The paleoenvironment in Nakali included a wooded component largely and was occupied with sympatric forest-dwelling apes and monkeys.
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[Journal Article] Magnetism and granulometry of Pleistocene sediments of Dhapasi section, Kathmandu (Nepal): implications for depositional age and paleoenvironment2009
Author(s)
P. Gautam, T. Sakai, K.N. Paudayal, S. Bhandari, B.R. Gyawali, C.M. Gautam, M.L. Rijal
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Journal Title
Bulletin of the Department of Geology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal 12
Pages: 17-28
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[Journal Article] A new Late Miocene great ape from Kenya and its implications for the origins of African great apes and humans.2007
Author(s)
Y. Kunimatsu, M. Nakatsukasa, Y. Sawada, T. Sakai, M. Hyodo, H. Hyodo, T. Itaya, H. Nakaya, H. Saegusa, A. Mazurier, M. Saneyoshi, H. Tsujikawa, A. Yamamoto, E. Mbua
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Journal Title
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 104
Pages: 19220-19225
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[Journal Article] Magnetostratigraphy of the Miocene Chiang Muan Formation, Northern Thailand: implication for revised chronology of the earliest Miocene hominoid in Southeast Asia Palaeogeography2006
Author(s)
Y. Suganuma, T. Hamada, S. Tanaka, M. Okada, H. Nakaya, Y. Kunimatsu, H. Saegusa, S. Nagaoka, B. Ratanasthien
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Journal Title
Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology 239
Pages: 75-86
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