Comments on: Nakalipithecus nakayamai, a Miocene Ape from Kenya http://primatology.net/2007/11/17/nakalipithecus-nakayamai-a-miocene-ape-from-kenya/ We ain’t monkeyin’ around here. Fri, 11 May 2012 12:00:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Featured Blog: The Primatology Blog « The Amazing World of Psychiatry: A Psychiatry Blog http://primatology.net/2007/11/17/nakalipithecus-nakayamai-a-miocene-ape-from-kenya/#comment-9816 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:38:45 +0000 http://primatology.net/2007/11/17/nakalipithecus-nakayamai-a-miocene-ape-from-kenya/#comment-9816 [...] discovery of a fossilised Miocene ape and the implications of this. Differences between humans and [...]

]]> By: terryt http://primatology.net/2007/11/17/nakalipithecus-nakayamai-a-miocene-ape-from-kenya/#comment-8030 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:31:05 +0000 http://primatology.net/2007/11/17/nakalipithecus-nakayamai-a-miocene-ape-from-kenya/#comment-8030 Kambiz. You said, “that suggests a less likelihood that hominoid primates were absent from Africa and were reintroduced from Eurasian populations”. To me it looks as though what the authors are sort of getting at is that just Kenyapithecus evolved in Asia and then moved back. The timeline seems pretty good and it makes sense for various reasons. At 14 – 16 million years it’s even a candidate for being the gibbon’s ancestor. Fits the molecular evidence.

By the way. When and where did brachiating evolve in the apes? We’d have to assume it evolved before the gibbon group split off.

]]>