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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
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A new Late Miocene great ape from Kenya and its implications for the origins of African great apes and humans
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 104, No. 49, Year 2007
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Extant African great apes and humans are thought to have diverged from each other in the Late Miocene. However, few hominoid fossils are known from Africa during this period. Here we describe a new genus of great ape (Nakalipithecus nakayamai gen. et sp. nov.) recently discovered from the early Late Miocene of Nakali, Kenya. The new genus resembles Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (9.6-8.7 Ma, Greece) in size and some features but retains less specialized characters, such as less inflated cusps and better-developed cingula on cheek teeth, and it was recovered from a slightly older age (9.9-9.8 Ma). Although the affinity of Ouranopithecus to the extant African apes and humans has often been inferred, the former is known only from southeastern Europe. The discovery of N. nakayamai in East Africa, therefore, provides new evidence on the origins of African great apes and humans. N. nakayamai could be close to the last common ancestor of the extant African apes and humans. In addition, the associated primate fauna from Nakali shows that hominoids and other noncercopithecoid catarrhines retained higher diversity into the early Late Miocene in East Africa than previously recognized. © 2007 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Kunimatsu, Yutaka
Japan, Kyoto
Kyoto University
Nakatsukasa, Masato
Japan, Kyoto
Kyoto University
Sawada, Y.
Japan, Matsue
Shimane University
Sakai, Tetsuya
Japan, Matsue
Shimane University
Hyodo, Masayuki
Japan, Kobe
Kobe University
Hyodo, Hironobu
Japan, Okayama
Okayama University of Science
Itaya, Tetsumaru
Japan, Okayama
Okayama University of Science
Nakaya, Hideo
Japan, Kagoshima
Kagoshima University
Saegusa, Haruo
Japan, Kobe
University of Hyogo
Mazurier, Arnaud
France, Poitiers
Etudes Recherches Matériaux
Saneyoshi, Mototaka
Japan, Okayama
Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences
Tsujikawa, Hiroshi
Japan, Sendai
Tohoku University School of Medicine
Yamamoto, Ayumi
Japan, Kyoto
Kyoto University
Mbua, Emma N.
Kenya, Nairobi
National Museums of Kenya
Statistics
Citations: 167
Authors: 14
Affiliations: 10
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1073/pnas.0706190104
ISSN:
00278424
Study Locations
Multi-countries
Kenya