Hominoid teeth with chimpanzee- and gorilla-like features from the Miocene of Kenya
Implications for the chronology of ape-human divergence and biogeography of Miocene hominoids
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6135733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Pickford (0000-0002-9017-1107, Chaire de Paléoanthropologie et de Préhistoire du Collège de France), Brigitte Senut (0000-0002-9854-1109, Département Histoire de la Terre du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-102 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0918-7960 • E-ISSN: 1348-8570 |
| Publisher | Anthropological Society of Nippon (PUBLISHER • JP) |
| DOI | 10.1537/ase.04s014 |
| OpenAlex | W2030288176 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 21 |
One of the major lacunae in our knowledge of African hominoid evolution concerns the origins of the chimpanzee and gorilla. Several thousand specimens from the Plio–Pleistocene of Africa have been attributed to Hominidae (sensu stricto) of which only a few, including Ardipithecus ramidus, have been re-interpreted by some authors as possibly representing an ape rather than a hominid (Senut, 1998). Four recently discovered ape-like specimens from the late Middle Miocene (12.5 Ma) and Late Miocene (5.9 Ma) of Kenya partly fill the gap in the fossil record of African apes, and show some morphological and metric affinities with teeth of chimpanzees and gorillas. If these few specimens from Kenya are indeed more closely related to chimps and gorillas than to hominids, then this implies that the dichotomy between African apes and hominids occurred several million years earlier than is currently estimated by most researchers. Furthermore these ape teeth from Ngorora and Lukeino suggest that extant African apes evolved in Africa, and did not immigrate into the continent from Europe or Asia
Biogeography · Biological evolution · Biology · Bonobo · Cercopithecidae · Chronology · Evolutionary biology · Extant taxon · Gorilla · Hominidae · Human evolution · Hylobates · Late Miocene · Paleoanthropology · Pan paniscus · Pleistocene · Plio-Pleistocene · Pongidae · Zoology · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Ecology · Paleontology
Parting ways
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |