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  • Again, the skull represented both a new genus and a new species, and Richard and Meave named it Afropithecus turkanensis.3

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • Again, the skull represented both a new genus and a new species, and Richard and Meave named it Afropithecus turkanensis.3

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • Forget the fact that he takes Johanson out of context read the entire passage from Lucy and you'll find Don does indeed think there is a "yesterday" for orangutans; forget even that in 1998 Johnston fails to mention Proconsul, Pliopithecus, Ramapithecus, Sivapithecus, Propliopithecus, Afropithecus, Dendropithecus, Limnopithecus and God knows how many other species, genera and families of potential hominoid ancestors were available; all of which showed so many transitional features between them that it is indeed, difficult to confidently construct phylogenetic trees.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Christopher O'Brien 2006

  • Forget the fact that he takes Johanson out of context read the entire passage from Lucy and you'll find Don does indeed think there is a "yesterday" for orangutans; forget even that in 1998 Johnston fails to mention Proconsul, Pliopithecus, Ramapithecus, Sivapithecus, Propliopithecus, Afropithecus, Dendropithecus, Limnopithecus and God knows how many other species, genera and families of potential hominoid ancestors were available; all of which showed so many transitional features between them that it is indeed, difficult to confidently construct phylogenetic trees.

    Did Johnston Get It Right? Christopher O'Brien 2006

  • 3 Richard and Meave also reclassified the skull she found at Buluk from Sivapithecus to Afropithecus turkanensis.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • 3 Richard and Meave also reclassified the skull she found at Buluk from Sivapithecus to Afropithecus turkanensis.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • Afropithecus Prohylobates LOWER Proconsul 20 MIOCENE Split between hominids 25 and chimpanzees Omomyiformes Branisella Aegyptopithecus OLIGOCENE about 8-6 mya Propliopithecus 30

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