ANT203Y1 Lecture : ANT203 - 17 January 2012.pdf
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(note: discrepancies with textbook - learn textbook version) India/pakistan in asian ape lineage modern great ape - similar jaw/tooth structure to great ape taxa, esp. Sivapithecus limbs ape-like elbow (full extension), arms longer than legs, etc. Southern china one of the forms associated with orangutans (genus pongo) radiation of these species crenulated molars - maybe more closely related to. Orangutans than sivapithecus long, curved phalanges (suggesting suspension) Sivapithecus face) known from a lot of limb bones, all of which suggest suspensory locomotion, not at all like monkeys (not knuckle- walkers though!) additional european taxa (perhaps related to african apes and humans) Greece like rudapithecus, (gorilla-like) but much bigger descendant of rudapithecus or dryopithecus, but having regained large teeth and thick enamel. Oreopithecus didn"t need this) probably an extinct side branch, not related to any living apes best specimen: slab found by coal miners long hands, slender fingers = suspensory, so is an ape, just an unusual one.
