And our australopithecus afarensis ancestors apparently felt the same way .

而我们的祖先阿法南猿显然也赞成这个观点。

She belonged to a species called australopithecus afarensis , which is believed to be ancestral to modern man .

她属于南方古猿阿法种（australopithecusafarensis），该种被认为是现代人的祖先。

The new species , dubbed australopithecus sediba , is reported in science this week by lee berger and his colleagues at the university of the witwatersrand , in johannesburg .

来自约翰内斯堡的威特沃特斯兰德大学的伯杰李及其同事们于本周在《科学》中报道了这个新物种，并将其命名为南猿sediba。

Lucy , also found in africa , thrived a million years after ardi and was of the more human-like genus australopithecus .

同样在非洲出土的“露西”化石，年代比“阿蒂”晚100万年，属于与人类更相近的南方古猿。