Primatology.netA 17-million-year-old jaw from Egypt just challenged where all living apes originated. One mandible from the desert, and the field’s East Africa-centered model is under serious pressure. #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #Miocene https://www.primatology.net/p/a-jaw-from-egypt-rewrites-the-origin
A Jaw from Egypt Rewrites the Origin of Modern Apes
A newly described Early Miocene ape from northern Egypt suggests the common ancestor of all living apes lived in a region that paleontologists had largely stopped looking.