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Science 18 April 1997:
Vol. 276. no. 5311, pp. 355 - 356
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5311.355b
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Paleoanthropology: Miocene Primates Go Ape

Ann Gibbons and Elizabeth Culotta

Between 5 million and 23 million years ago during the Miocene, 30 different kinds of apes roamed Eurasia and Africa, but only one lineage survived to give rise to modern apes and humans. With only fragmentary fossils available, researchers haven't known which one. Now new fossils of two African apes are vying for prime spots on the ancestral ape family tree; One, Morotopithecus, is described on page 401, while another, Kenyapithecus, was presented at this month's meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in St. Louis.

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