{"id":651082,"date":"2026-01-09T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/651082\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:30:11","slug":"toumai-pourrait-bel-et-bien-etre-le-plus-vieil-ancetre-de-lhumanite-selon-une-nouvelle-etude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/651082\/","title":{"rendered":"Touma\u00ef pourrait bel et bien \u00eatre le plus vieil anc\u00eatre de l\u2019humanit\u00e9, selon une nouvelle \u00e9tude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Largement \u00e9tudi\u00e9e sur les bancs de l\u2019\u00e9cole, l\u2019australopith\u00e8que Lucy ne serait plus notre plus vieille anc\u00eatre. C\u2019est Touma\u00ef, du haut de ses sept millions d\u2019ann\u00e9es, qui l\u2019a d\u00e9tr\u00f4n\u00e9 et qui est donc d\u00e9sormais consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme notre anc\u00eatre commun. Son cr\u00e2ne a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9couvert au <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/tchad\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tchad<\/a> en\u00a02001, et une nouvelle \u00e9tude qui indique qu\u2019il marchait probablement sur ses deux jambes, raconte <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofrance.fr\/franceinfo\/podcasts\/les-documents-franceinfo\/toumai-notre-plus-vieil-ancetre-commun-continue-de-reveler-ses-secrets-1990711\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\">Radio France<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Les scientifiques doivent tenter de d\u00e9terminer \u00e0 quelle fr\u00e9quence Touma\u00ef marchait ainsi\u00a0: fr\u00e9quemment, ce qui le rapprocherait d\u00e9j\u00e0 de l\u2019\u00eatre humain, ou seulement occasionnellement comme le font actuellement les chimpanz\u00e9s par exemple.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Un primate bien \u00e9loign\u00e9 des humais\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Avec son cr\u00e2ne a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9couvert son f\u00e9mur, qui tend \u00e0 confirmer qu\u2019il se d\u00e9pla\u00e7ait bien debout. Les <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/scientifiques\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scientifiques<\/a> ont d\u00e9couvert un point d\u2019attache d\u2019un ligament essentiel pour ce mode de d\u00e9placement. Une information qui viendrait donc confirmer sa position de plus vieil anc\u00eatre jusqu\u2019\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent d\u00e9couvert.<\/p>\n<p>Toutefois, Gilles Berillon, chercheur au <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/cnrs\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNRS<\/a> et au Mus\u00e9um national d\u2019Histoire naturelle, nuance sur Radio France\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est un primate bien \u00e9loign\u00e9 quand m\u00eame des humains avec assez peu de caract\u00e8res qui nous permettent de dire de mani\u00e8re certaine s\u2019ils \u00e9taient bip\u00e8des.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Largement \u00e9tudi\u00e9e sur les bancs de l\u2019\u00e9cole, l\u2019australopith\u00e8que Lucy ne serait plus notre plus vieille anc\u00eatre. C\u2019est Touma\u00ef,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[879,1011,27,48182,958,7949,43,40,41,39,10491,42,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-651082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sciences-et-technologies","8":"tag-afrique","9":"tag-fr","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-lucy","12":"tag-paleontologie","13":"tag-prehistoire","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-science-and-technology","16":"tag-sciences","17":"tag-sciences-et-technologies","18":"tag-tchad","19":"tag-technologies","20":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@fr\/115863737039935006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}