Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A genus of extinct apes known from Miocene and Pliocene fossil remains found in Africa and Eurasia and believed to be ancestral to the living great apes, including humans.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of extinct anthropoid apes from the Miocene of France, of large size and among the highest simians, regarded by Gervais and Lartet as most closely related to the early ancestors of man. These apes were of nearly human stature, and were probably arboreal and frugivorous.
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- noun genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Among these residents of early Europe was at least one representative of the anthropoid apes, the fossil species known as Dryopithecus, from the middle Miocene deposits of St. Gaudens, France.
Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877
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Dryopithecus was a genus of apes that lived in Eastern Africa during the Upper Miocene period, from 12 to 9 million years ago, and which could have been the evolutionary ancestor of modern man.
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Right now there is a damn site more evidence for Dryopithecus then your god.
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Dryopithecus was a genus of apes that lived in Eastern Africa during the Upper Miocene period, from 12 to 9 million years ago, and which could have been the evolutionary ancestor of modern man.
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Dryopithecus was a genus of apes . . . which could have been the evolutionary ancestor of modern man.
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He mentions two or three anthropoid apes as occurring in the Miocene of Europe, [111] but only names _Dryopithecus_, the largest form from the Miocene of France.
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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Dryopithecus, later appears to have become extinct.
Time and Change John Burroughs 1879
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The sparse remains of Dryopithecus, the species in question, with some few other fossils of doubtfully anthropoid species, save us from a total blank, and open the vista to a myriad of active arboreal creatures which had their dwelling-place in the old-time European forests, but have almost utterly vanished from human knowledge.
Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877
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M.ocene period, because in the Upper M.ocene deposits of Western Europe remains of two species of ape have been found allied to the gibbons, one of them, Dryopithecus, nearly as large as a man, and believed by M. Lartet to have approached man in its dentition more than the existing apes.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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“Notes on Ramapithecus, the Earliest Known Hominid, and Dryopithecus.”
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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