The research is the first thorough quantitative analysis of the Orrorin tugenensis fossil –a fragmentary piece of femur –which was discovered in Kenya in 2000 by a French research team.

这项研究是首次对图根原人化石（一块完整的股骨化石）进行全面的定量分析，它是在2000年由一个法国研究小组在肯尼亚发现的。

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And recent computed tomography (CT) scans of the thighbone of a six-million-year-old Kenyan creature known as Orrorin tugenensis suggest it might have had quite a human gait.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists unearth early skeleton