"The Earliest Apes"
Journal article, Photographs
By: Elwyn L. Simons
Date: December 1967
Source: Simons, Elwyn. "The Earliest Apes." Scientific American 217, no. 6, December 1967, 28–35.
About the Author: Elwyn Lavern Simons (1930–) was born in Lawrence, Kansas. He received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Princeton University in 1956 and a D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1959. He taught at Princeton, Yale University, and Duke University and was director of vertebrate paleontology at the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut.
Introduction
British naturalist Charles Darwin considered the African apes, which include two species of chimpanzee and the gorilla, as humans' closest relatives. This relationship focused attention on the time when the lines leading to the African apes and humans diverged. That is, paleoanthropologists wanted to know when humans and the...
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