The family tree of exant hominoids
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The family tree of exant hominoids
The family tree of extant hominoids includes only a small fraction of the diversity of apes that have lived on this planet. During the Miocene, up to 100 ape species once lived throughout much of Europe and Asia, but ultimately went extinct. Proconsul may have been the last common ancestor of extant hominoids. Sivapithecus was probably an ancestor to orangutans. Ouranopithecus or Dryopithecus appeared in the fossil record later in the Miocene than Proconsul and Sivapithecus. Both have been proposed as ancestors shared by all living hominoids.
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