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Gigantopithecus and the Mountain Gorilla

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PILBEAM1 has recently described the peculiarities of the extinct pongid genus Gigantopithecus, and commented on the striking parallelisms between its functional morphology and that of both Theropithecus (following Jolly2) and the early Hominidae. I hope to show here that a similar functional complex has evolved in a living pongid, the rare mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei).

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GROVES, C. Gigantopithecus and the Mountain Gorilla. Nature 226, 973–974 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226973a0

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