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Science 31 July 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5377, pp. 622 - 623
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5377.622
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PRIMATE EVOLUTION:
New Study Points to Eurasian Ape as Great Ape Ancestor

Ann Gibbons

Writing in the 30 July/15 August issue of Current Biology, a pair of researchers make a controversial claim about the identity of the last common ancestor of the living great apes. Most paleontologists currently think that the ancestor was an extinct African ape. But based on a synthesis of data from both fossil analyses and comparisons of DNAs obtained from living apes and monkeys, the researchers propose that it was instead an unknown ape from Europe or Asia that migrated into Africa 10 million years ago.

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