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Hitherto, the earliest fossils recognized as belonging to the Hominidae, from Fort Ternan and the Siwaliks, have been dated to the Mio-Pliocene. Discoveries in early Miocene deposits at Songhor and Rusinga, Kenya, have made it possible to carry the date of the separation of the true Hominidae from the Pongidae back to the Lower—or possibly Early Middle—Miocene
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LEAKEY, L. An Early Miocene Member of Hominidae. Nature 213, 155–163 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213155a0
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