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ape

Primate 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.
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Schwartz and Grehan pooled humans, orangutans, and the fossil apes into a new group called "dental hominoids," named for their similarly thick-enameled teeth.
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From that ancestor many other ancestral hominoid species would follow, each coming and going in the last ten pages.
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