Ramapithecus
Ramapithecus A middle to late Miocene ape, known from fragmentary fossils from E. Africa, south-eastern Europe, and northern India and Pakistan, dating from 14–10 Ma ago, and very similar to the E. African Kenyapithecus. Ramapithecus was regarded by many as transitional between the true Miocene apes (the Dryopithecinae) and the later Hominidae; if this were so, then the human and ape lines must have diverged 15–25 Ma ago, prior to the late Miocene. More recent evidence, however, suggests that Ramapithecus and the related or identical Sivapithecus are nearer to the evolutionary line that led to the orang-utan.
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