ANT-2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lake Baringo, Ape, Pierolapithecus
Document Summary
Hominoids showed up in east africa in the miocene epoch (cid:862)dental apes(cid:863) There was evidence of suspension in one 20. 6 million year-old miocene hominoid from uganda: the morotopithecus. Could be a common ancestor of large apes (including humans) Human ancestors of pliocene-pleistocene after the split from chimpanzees. We have a great fossil record for hominins. Less than 20 species of hominins are widely recognized. Near lake baringo, kenya there are few panin fossils for chimpanzees because they live in the tropics.
