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It is widely believed that study of the hominoid primates of the Miocene will yield a better understanding of the nature of the last common ancestor of the apes and man, the time and place of the hominoid-pongid divergence, and the adaptive nature and reason for the initial differentiation of hominoids from pongids. The last 5 years have witnessed a reconceptualization of the affinities of the Miocene hominoids vis à vis the modern apes and man. It is for this reason that we organized a pre-Congress symposium at the VIII IPS Congress entitled “Miocene Hominoids and New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry.”
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Ciochon, R.L., Corruccini, R.S. (1982). Miocene Hominoids and New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry. In: Chiarelli, A.B., Corruccini, R.S. (eds) Advanced Views in Primate Biology. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68300-8_15
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