The relationship of African apes, man and old world monkeys.

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Output type: Journal article

Author list: Leakey, Kiarie

Publisher: National Academy of Sciences

Publication year: 1970

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (0027-8424)

Volume number: 67

Issue number: 2

Start page: 746

End page: 8

Number of pages: -737

ISSN: 0027-8424

eISSN: 1091-6490

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Full text URL: https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc283268?pdf=render

Abstract

The conclusions of Wilson and Sarich (Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 63, 1088-1093 (1969) that the human lineage diverged from that leading to the African apes about 4 to 5 million years ago is shown to be based upon a wholly unsupported assumption that the Superfamilies Hominoidea and Cercopithecoidea only separated from each other some 30 million years ago. This is entirely contrary to most recent palaeontological evidence.

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