there was this other stuff happening, or evolving if you will😉, in EUROPE
OMG theyre everywhere!!!!:Q
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"This is a remarkable find," said F. Clark Howell, a University of California at Berkeley professor emeritus. "It indicates a diversity in hominids ... in western Eurasia at a time where we're beginning to think we had a good handle on how much diversity there was."
But this ape didn't swing through trees with the curved fingers of an orangutan. Nor did it knuckle walk on four limbs with the horizontal trunk posture of a chimp.
"It's a different type of animal," Moya-Sola said.
The ape's body design suggests it was an adept and agile climber that kept its trunk upright. To do that, its chest had to be shaped just so. And the shoulder blades needed to hold to a certain position on the back..............
OMG theyre everywhere!!!!:Q
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"This is a remarkable find," said F. Clark Howell, a University of California at Berkeley professor emeritus. "It indicates a diversity in hominids ... in western Eurasia at a time where we're beginning to think we had a good handle on how much diversity there was."
But this ape didn't swing through trees with the curved fingers of an orangutan. Nor did it knuckle walk on four limbs with the horizontal trunk posture of a chimp.
"It's a different type of animal," Moya-Sola said.
The ape's body design suggests it was an adept and agile climber that kept its trunk upright. To do that, its chest had to be shaped just so. And the shoulder blades needed to hold to a certain position on the back..............
