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Dryopithecus was a genus of apes that is known from East Africa into Eurasia during the late Miocene period. The first species of Dryopithecus was discovered at the site of Saint-Gaudens, Haute-Garonne, France, in 1856. Other dryopithecids have been found in Hungary, Spain, and China.
Like Sivapithecus, Dryopithecus was suspensory, had a large brain and a delayed development; but, unlike the former, it had a gracile jaw with thinly enameled molars and suspensory forelimbs. The similarities and differences between them provide insight into the timing and paleogeography of hominin origins and the phylogenetic divide between Asian and Afro-European great apes.
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For example, there is an almost total absence of fossils linking the Miocene apes such as Dryopithecus with the Pliocene ancestors of modern apes and humans, especially within the span of time between 4 and 8 million years ago.
What if, for example, fossils of anatomically modern humans turned up in strata older than those in which Dryopithecus were found?
Even if anatomically modern humans were found to have lived a million years ago, 4 million years after the Late Miocene disappearance of Dryopithecus, that would be enough to throw out the current accounts of the origin of humankind.
Eugene Dubois of Java man, the first proto-human hominid between Dryopithecus and modern humans.
Most of these fossils and artifacts were unearthed before the discovery by Eugene Dubois of Java man, the first protohuman hominid between Dryopithecus and modern humans.
Most of these fossils and artifacts were unearthed before the discovery by Eugene Dubois of Java man, the first proto-human hominid between Dryopithecus and modern humans.
One said it was the dryopithecus of Java, the other said it was pithecanthropus.
In appearance they resembled the more vicious types of dryopithecus, believed by scientists to have been the forerunners of all anthropoids.