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Skull comparison of anthropoids
Skulls of a) A.africanus; b) Home sapiens; c) Papio; d) Therapithecus; e) Pan (after)
Anthropoids are the primate superfamily that includes Old and New World Monkeys, Apes, and modern humans and their known fossil ancestors (hominins). The earliest anthropoids such as Aegyptopithecus date from the Early Oligocene period, at about 30-29 mya.
This figure shows the skulls of five recent anthropoids, including: a) Australopithecus africanus, an Early Pleistocene hominin from South Africa dating 1.8 mya; b) Homo sapiens (anatomically modern humans), the hominin representative of all people today; c) Papio, the baboon, an Old Work Monkey (family Cercopithecidae) whose five species live today in different parts of Africa; d) Theropithecus, the gelada, an Old World Monkey with a single species living in Ethiopia; and e) Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, an Ape (family Hominidae) with four subspecies now living in western and central Africa.
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