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apePrimate of the family Pongidae, closely related to humans, including gibbon, orang-utan, chimpanzee, and gorilla. The earliest known ape is believed by US researchers to have lived 20 million yeas ago in Uganda. Morotopithecus was about the size of a modern chimpanzee. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The western lowland gorilla diet has implications for the health of humans and other hominoids. Our understanding from a biological point of view of the difference between the human and the earlier hominoids is that we remain in that period of play. This configuration of sutures appears to be a normal variation in facial structure and part of the common heritage of hominoids, or apes and humans, and is not confined to robust australopithecines, concludes Eckhardt in the July 23 NATURE. |
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