Pygmy chimpanzee as a possible prototype for the common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees and gorillas

1978/10/01 by Adrienne L. Zihlman, ADRIENNE L. ZIHLMAN, JOHN E. CRONIN +5 · 195 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Ancestor #Biological evolution #Biology #Bonobo #Ecology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Evolutionary biology #Genetics #Geography #Gorilla #Hominidae #Hylobates #Most recent common ancestor #Paleontology #Pan paniscus #Phylogenetic tree #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Pongidae #Primate #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Troglodytes #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1038/275744a0

published in Nature 275(5682), 744-746 (Nature Portfolio)

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