Word: dryopithecus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teeth of Plesianthropus and Paranthropus, Dr. Gregory found an extraordinary mixture of human and apelike features. The general pattern seemed closely related to the dentition of Dryopithecus, a celebrated extinct ape. Most anthropologists believe man descended from a generalized type of Dryopithecus...
...Consensus of anthropologists is that man is descended from a generalized type of Dryopithecus, an extinct ape whose fossil remains have been widely found...
...reasonable probability from the welter of anthropological confusion are: 1) that early man flowered in a number of different genera and species which became extinct before Homo sapiens appeared, and 2) that the common ancestor was a giant, arboreal ape related to the well-known fossil ape genus called Dryopithecus...
...brain capacity of about 600 cc. He found some resemblances to the Taungs skull and some differences, therefore put his fossil in the same genus with Australopithecus but in a different species. Name: Australopithecus transvaalensis Broom. One molar which he was able to examine closely showed close affinities to Dryopithecus, a well-known genus of extinct apes. It is from a generalized type of Dryopithecus that most anthropologists believe man evolved...