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>Researchers have identified a new genus and species of small ape that roamed Earth 11.6 million years ago before the evolutionary split of humans/great apes (hominids) and gibbons.
>Named Pliobates cataloniae, the new species has important implications for reconstructing the last common ancestor of the two groups (the living hominoids).
>Anthropologists previously thought that great apes were present before small apes, mainly due to the lack of small apes and ancient gibbons in the fossil record.
>The discovery fills a gap in the fossil record, giving researchers another piece of information about the evolution of great and small apes.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6260/aab2625
>Researchers have identified a new genus and species of small ape that roamed Earth 11.6 million years ago before the evolutionary split of humans/great apes (hominids) and gibbons.
>Named Pliobates cataloniae, the new species has important implications for reconstructing the last common ancestor of the two groups (the living hominoids).
>Anthropologists previously thought that great apes were present before small apes, mainly due to the lack of small apes and ancient gibbons in the fossil record.
>The discovery fills a gap in the fossil record, giving researchers another piece of information about the evolution of great and small apes.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6260/aab2625
