{"id":563,"date":"2026-02-04T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/563\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:00:07","slug":"le-squelette-dhomo-habilis-un-jackpot-fossile-pour-le-tourisme-au-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/563\/","title":{"rendered":"Le squelette d\u2019\u201cHomo habilis\u201d, un \u201cjackpot fossile\u201d pour le tourisme au Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cLe Kenya vient d\u2019ajouter un nouveau poids lourd l\u2019histoire des origines de l\u2019humanit\u00e9\u201d, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/weekly-review\/the-fossil-jackpot-making-lake-turkana-the-capital-of-human-origins-5337312#story\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">r\u00e9sume le quotidien k\u00e9nyan Daily Nation<\/a>. Plus de dix ans apr\u00e8s la d\u00e9couverte des premiers ossements du sp\u00e9cimen KNM-ER 64061 dans la r\u00e9gion du lac Turkana, dans le nord du pays, en 2012, une analyse vient de r\u00e9v\u00e9ler que le squelette est le plus complet du genre Homo habilis d\u00e9couvert \u00e0 ce jour.<\/p>\n<p>Un \u201cjackpot fossile\u201d, estime le journal k\u00e9nyan, qui conforte le pays dans son ambition de faire de la r\u00e9gion de Turkana une capitale du tourisme des origines de l\u2019homme moderne.<\/p>\n<p>Homo habilis est l\u2019un des \u201cpremiers membres du genre Homo\u201d, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/this-is-the-most-complete-skeleton-yet-of-our-ancestor-homo-habilis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rappelle le magazine Scientific American<\/a>. \u201cSon cerveau volumineux et son visage plat \u2013 des caract\u00e9ristiques que l\u2019on retrouve chez l\u2019homme moderne \u2013 ont longtemps distingu\u00e9 cette esp\u00e8ce des hominin\u00e9s plus anciens comme Australopithecus africanus\u201d, note le journal.<\/p>\n<p>Mais l\u2019analyse de ce squelette \u201cexceptionnellement complet\u201d, poursuit le magazine, r\u00e9v\u00e8le qu\u2019Homo habilis avait une apparence bien moins moderne que nous.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019\u00e9tude, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/ar.70100\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">publi\u00e9e dans The Anatomical Record<\/a> le 13\u00a0janvier, indique que le sp\u00e9cimen mesurait aux alentours de 1,60\u00a0m\u00e8tre et pesait une trentaine de kilos. Elle confirme par ailleurs qu\u2019Homo habilis avait de longs bras muscl\u00e9s, \u201cplus semblables aux proportio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLe Kenya vient d\u2019ajouter un nouveau poids lourd l\u2019histoire des origines de l\u2019humanit\u00e9\u201d, r\u00e9sume le quotidien k\u00e9nyan Daily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[6,140,230,552,551,553,554,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-afrique","9":"tag-afrique-du-sud","10":"tag-kenya","11":"tag-palu00e9ontologie","12":"tag-sciences","13":"tag-sciences-et-environnement","14":"tag-sociu00e9tu00e9","15":"tag-tourisme"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}