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Anthropologists now believe that man's family tree (see chart) goes back to a primate called Dryopithecus, a true ape that appeared some 20 million years ago. Much later?by 14 million years ago?the Dryopithecus line had split into three branches...
Because the "humanoid" Oreopithecus was a contemporary 10,000,000 years ago of proconsul and dryopithecus, these two apes could not have been ancestors of man, as they have often been considered. Although Hurzeler's thesis proves that man had a long history separate from the apes, Howells denied that it refutes Darwinian evolution...
...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...