A new species of great ape from the late Miocene epoch in Ethiopia

Gen Suwa (), Reiko T. Kono, Shigehiro Katoh, Berhane Asfaw and Yonas Beyene
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Gen Suwa: The University Museum, the University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Reiko T. Kono: National Museum of Nature and Science, Hyakunincho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0073, Japan
Shigehiro Katoh: Hyogo Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1546, Japan
Berhane Asfaw: Rift Valley Research Service, P.O. Box 5717, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Yonas Beyene: Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture and TourismP.O. Box 13247, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Nature, 2007, vol. 448, issue 7156, 921-924

Abstract: Gorillas leave the line Timing the divergence between the gorilla, chimp and human lineages has been the province of molecular phylogeny largely unconstrained by fossil evidence. Gen Suwa et al. now present fossil teeth from Ethiopia which look very similar to those of a modern gorilla, even though they are 10 million years old. If the teeth, assigned to a new species of fossil ape, are from a creature on the gorilla lineage, then the divergence between gorillas and the chimp–human stock must have happened before that time, constraining divergence dates reached through the comparison of contemporary genetic sequences.

Date: 2007
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