Why are forest australopithecus primates?

Much of what people know about forest apes is based on fossils and geological data excavated from the ground. Remains and fossils of the presence of Australopithecus have been found in many parts of Africa, Asia and Europe.

Between 23 million and 18 million years ago, in tropical rainforest areas and vast grasslands, an ancient primate, Australopithecus forest, was active there, and some of these areas have become volcanic areas.

The most primitive organisms on Earth are prokaryotes, which evolved from prokaryotes to eukaryotic single-celled organisms, then evolved into multicellular animals, gradually evolved from primitive multicellular animals to chordates, and then evolved into higher chordates - vertebrates. The first vertebrates to appear were fish, which evolved from a certain total finned fish to amphibians, then to reptiles, and then to mammals that appeared in a wide range of mammals, and one of the mammals evolved into forest apes, and humans evolved from a branch of forest apes.

Evolved from the Australopithecus aegyptus, which evolved from the protoape, and the protoape seems to have come from some kind of monkey... I can't remember, but it's a very primitive monkey, just like the modern finger monkey, and these fossils have been excavated at various levels in many locations, and the first evolved from the ignorance of small organic molecules, as the second floor said.

Evolved from an earlier palaic primate.

The main factor in the evolution of forest apes to humans was the role of the environment. Due to environmental changes, such as orogeny, climate change and glacial periods have led to the reduction of forests, so that forest apes have evolved in two aspects, and some forest apes are still mainly arboreal and slowly evolved into modern apes, such as chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, gibbons, etc.

Due to the disappearance of a large number of forests and other environmental reasons, forest apes were forced to go down to the ground to live, from arm walking to upright walking, and slowly evolved into humans, it can be seen that the relationship between humans and apes is the closest, they have a common primitive ancestor is forest apes, in the whole evolutionary process, it is the environment that selects forest apes.

Human evolution: Humans originated from forest apes.

Not the same.

Although they were all once widely distributed in Africa, forest australopithecus was much earlier, about 12 million years ago, while australopithecus appeared much later, about 1.3 million to 5.5 million years ago. Their brain volumes are markedly different, with Australopithecus having a brain volume of about 400 milliliters and Australopithecus australopithecus reaching 450 530 milliliters. In the classification, they are different families, forest apes are the ancestors of humans, they are also the ancestors of modern apes orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees, and are more complex, therefore, forest australopithecus is a genus of extinct ape-like animals, while australopithecus is an extinct genus of hominidae.

Humans evolved from apes, and apes evolved into two branches, one of which is the forest ape, which is regarded as the ancestor of modern apes. One group walked from the tree to the ground and was called Ramaucus. Ramaucus evolved and is known as Australopithecus, which was first discovered in South Africa.

...Australopithecus was first discovered in Africa and is by far the earliest fossil of human evolution. Australopithecus is just an ancestor.

Australopithecus was the first human, while Forest Australopithecus was the ancestor of humans.

Unlike Australopithecus, Australopithecus was found in southern China, while Australopithecus forestaricus is a general term for Australopithecus.

Forest Australopithecus: Forest Australopithecus, also known as forest ape, includes many species. They lived between 20 million and 5 million years ago.

They can be found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Forest Australopithecus was first discovered in France, and later fossils of Forest Australopithecus were later found in the Siwalik Mountains on the border between northern India and Pakistan. Why are they called "forest apes"?

The reason is this: the earliest fossils of this type of apes found in France are together with the fossils of leaves, hence the name "forest apes".In addition, one of their femurs (thigh bone) has been found

Based on all the materials, they are structurally similar to chimpanzees, and are able to move around trees with their arms.

From the fossil material found, it is assumed that they were about the size of today's chimpanzees. They are probably the direct ancestors of modern apes.

Australopithecus. In distant southern Africa, fossils of another species of Australopithecus have been discovered, called Australopithecus australopithecus or Australopithecus. This is a new type of Australopithecus, the type that transitioned from primitive apes to humans.

In recent decades, fossils of animals such as Australopithecus have also been found in some parts of eastern Africa, and the material has become more abundant. Australopithecus as it is now known includes several different species. Some have stout bodies and larger brains; Some have short bodies and small brains; Some have more obvious characteristics of apes; Some are clearly of the human type.

They all leave the forest and move in the open area. They lived between 5.5 million and 1.3 million years ago.

Since there are several types of Australopithecus, some of which are quite different from each other, there are differences of opinion about their exact place in human evolution. Some believe that they were collateral branches of human evolution and later became extinct. Some believe that at least one of them is the ancestor of Homo erectus.

In particular, in East Africa, where some Australopithecus fossils have been found, some crude stone tools have also been found, so some people call this Australopithecus "Homo sapiens".