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Miocene small-bodied ape from Eurasia sheds light on hominoid evolution

Published:2015-10-30 Issue:6260 Volume:350 Page:
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Alba David M.¹,Almécija Sergio¹²,DeMiguel Daniel¹,Fortuny Josep¹,de los Ríos Miriam Pérez¹,Pina Marta¹,Robles Josep M.¹³,Moyà-Solà Salvador⁴

Affiliation:

1. Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Edifici ICTA-ICP, Carrer de les Columnes sense número, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.

2. Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.

3. FOSSILIA Serveis Paleontològics i Geològics, Jaume I 87, 5è 1a, 08470 Sant Celoni, Barcelona, Spain.

4. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats at ICP and Unitat d’Antropologia Biològica (Department de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, Carrer de les Columnes sense número, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.

Abstract

Meet your gibbon cousin Apes are divided into two groups: larger-bodied apes, or hominoids, such as humans, chimps, and gorillas; and smaller-bodied hylobatids, such as gibbons. These two lineages are thought to have diverged rather cleanly, sharing few similarities after the emergence of crown hominoids. Alba et al. describe a new ape from the Miocene era that contains characteristics from both hominoids and small-bodied apes (see the Perspective by Benefit and McCrossin). Thus, early small-bodied apes may have contributed more to the evolution of the hominoid lineage than previously assumed. Science , this issue p. 10.1126/science.aab2625 ; see also p. 515

Funder

NSF

Generalitat de Catalunya

Spanish Ministerio de Educación

Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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