orangutan s. Description Sivapithecus was about convert 1.5 m ft in body length, similar in size to a modern ... species are generally recognized. Sivapithecus indicus fossils date from about 12.5 million to 10.5 million years ago. Sivapithecus sivalensis S. sivalensis lived from 9.5 million to 8.5 million years ... species was described and named Sivapithecus parvada S. parvada dated at about 10 million years ... of the face and jaw of a Sivapithecus . The specimen bore many similarities to the orangutan skull and strengthened the theory previously suggested by others that Sivapithecus was closely related to orangutans ... by most researchers to belong to one or more species of Sivapithecus . Ramapithecus is no longer regarded ... Sivapithecus meaning that the older name must take priority. It could be that Ramapithecus was just the female form of Sivapithecus . ref harvnb Gibbons 2006 pp 76 77 ref They were definitely members ... sivapithecus.html Photo of the 1982 Sivapithecus skull GSP 15000 Ramapithecus . 2011 . In Encyclop dia Britannica. Retrieved from http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 490510 Ramapithecus Sivapithecus ... Sivapithecus Category Prehistoric orangutans Category Miocene mammals Category Fossil taxa described in 1910 ca Sivapitec de Sivapithecus es Sivapithecus fr Sivapith que it Sivapithecus he nl Sivapithecus pt Sivapithecus ru sv Sivapithecus zh ... more details
italictitle S. indicus may refer to Sivapithecus indicus , a fossil primate species Sphenomorphus indicus , a skink species Synodus indicus , the Indian lizardfish, a fish species Sypheotides indicus , the lesser florican, a bird species Sphaeranthus Sphaeranthus indicus a genus of flowering plant Synonyms Stellio indicus , a synonym for Laudakia tuberculata , a lizard species See also Indicus disambiguation Species Latin name abbreviation disambiguation ... more details
and attributed to Drypopithecus keiyuanensis were subsequently assigned to L. keiyuanensis . Like Sivapithecus ... to be intermediate in morphology between Sivapithecus and recent orangutans. At 10 million years ... et al. 2004 . See also Griphopithecus Khoratpithecus Sivapithecus Category Prehistoric orangutans ... more details
Taxobox name Ponginae image Orangutan.jpg image caption Pongo sp. orangutan regnum Animal ia phylum Chordata classis Mammal ia ordo Primate s familia Hominidae subfamilia Ponginae subfamilia authority subdivision ranks Genus Genera subdivision See text Ponginae is a subfamily in the hominidae family. It contains a number of genus genera , all but one extinct Orangutan Pongo orangutans Gigantopithecus ref name ThePrimata The Primata, 2007. http www.theprimata.com taxonomy primata.html Subfamily Ponginae . A Taxonomy of Extinct Primates. Accessed 1 March 2011. ref Sivapithecus ref name ThePrimata Lufengpithecus Ankarapithecus ref name ThePrimata Ouranopithecus Griphopithecus ref name ThePrimata File Khoratpithecus.png thumb left Holotype mandible of Khoratpithecus ayeyarwadyensis References reflist Category Apes Primate stub ca Pong el Ponginae es Ponginae eu Ponginae fa fr Ponginae ko he la Ponginae nl Ponginae pl Orangowate zh ... more details
italictitle Taxobox name Ankarapithecus fossil range Late Miocene regnum Animal ia phylum Chordata classis Mammal ia ordo Primates familia Hominidae subfamilia Ponginae genus Ankarapithecus species A. meteai binomial Ankarapithecus meteai binomial authority Alpagut et. al., 1996 Ankarapithecus is a genus of extinct ape . It was probably frugivorous , and would have weighed about 60 pounds. Its remains were found close to Ankara in central Turkey beginning in the 1950s. ref New York Times , http query.nytimes.com gst fullpage.html?res 9A01E6DF1739F936A15754C0A960958260 Anthropologists Find Rare Kind of Ape Fossil ref It lived during the Late Miocene . ref Begun, David R. and G le , Erskin . 1998. http www.chass.utoronto.ca anthropology Faculty Begun ankara.pdf Restoration of the Type and Palate of Ankarapithecus meteai Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Implications . American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105 279 314. ref It was similar to Sivapithecus . References reflist Category Prehistoric orangutans Category Fossil taxa described in 1996 paleo primate stub ca Ankarapitec de Ankarapithecus meteai es Ankarapithecus meteai pl Ankarapithecus tr Ankarapithecus meteai zh ... more details
first1 P last2 Cronin first2 JE title The relationships of Sivapithecus and Ramapithecus and the evolution ... volume 308 issue 5959 pages 501 5 journal Nature ref Considered the same as Sivapithecus Ramapithecus Sivapithecus Greenfield 1979 . ref Russell L. Ciochon, John G. Fleagle Primate evolution and human ... more details
taxobox name Morotopithecus bishopi fossil range Miocene ref name taxonomy.nl http sn2000.taxonomy.nl taxonomicon TaxonProperties.aspx Morotopithecus bishopi Properties The Taxonomicon ref regnum Animal ia image Morotopithecus vertebra.jpg image width 250px image caption Lumbar vertebra of M. bishopi A, B compared to that of a human C phylum Chordate Chordata classis Mammal ia ordo Primate s superfamilia Hominoidea genus Morotopithecus species M. bishopi binomial Morotopithecus bishopi binomial authority Gebo et al., 1997 Morotopithecus bishopi is a species of fossil ape discovered in Moroto District Moroto , Uganda . ref name taxonomy.nl The Phylogeny phylogenetic status of Morotopithecus bishopi is debated to the extent that it challenges established views on the connection between Miocene primates and extant Hominidae hominids i.e. great apes . ref http www.plosone.org article info doi 10.1371 journal.pone.0001019 plosone ref Parsimony Parsimonious phylogenetic analyses indicate Morotopithecus is more derived than Proconsul primate Proconsul , ref Maclatchy, L. 2004 , The oldest ape . Evolutionary Anthropology Issues, News, and Reviews, 13 90 103. http onlinelibrary.wiley.com doi 10.1002 evan.10133 abstract doi 10.1002 evan.10133 Retrieved 2012 01 03 ref Afropithecus , and Kenyapithecus , but less derived than Oreopithecus , Sivapithecus , and Dryopithecus . Morotopithecus thus seems to be a sister taxon to extant great apes while Hylobates gibbon s seem to have branched off before this clade appeared. However, gibbons are believed to have branched off Mya 18 while Morotopithecus is dated to more than Mya 20.6 million years . ref cite journal last1 Young first1 Nathan M last2 MacLatchy first2 Laura title The phylogenetic position of Morotopithecus journal Journal of Human Evolution volume 46 year 2004 pages 163 184 url http www.fas.harvard.edu palanth Nate Publications files young maclatchy 2004.pdf doi 10.1016 j.jhevol.2003.11.002 ref In a comparison of teeth ch ... more details
italictitle Taxobox name Proconsul nyanzae fossil range Miocene regnum Animal ia phylum Chordata classis Mammal ia ordo Primates superfamilia Hominoidea familia Proconsulidae extinct subfamilia Proconsulinae extinct genus Proconsul genus Proconsul extinct species P. nyanzae binomial Proconsul nyanzae binomial authority Wilfrid Le Gros Clark Le Gros Clark & Louis Leakey Leakey , 1950 Proconsul nyanzae is a species of fossil primate first discovered by Louis Leakey on Rusinga Island in 1942, which he published in Nature in 1943. A joint publication of Wilfrid Le Gros Clark and Louis Leakey in 1951, The Miocene Hominoidea of East Africa , first defines Proconsul nyanzae . In 1965 Simons and David Pilbeam Pilbeam replaced Proconsul with Dryopithecus , using the same species names. ref A now amusing anecdote is told of Louis reaction to this change by Virginia Morell, Ancestral Passions , Chapter 21. Louis attended a presentation by the young David Pilbeam , then a graduate student, in Chicago in 1965. Louis interrupted by yelling at Pilbeam to shut up , among other words. Not finding any support among his mentors and supporters, Pilbeam told Louis to shut up and went on with the presentation. This event is said to have assisted his career. ref In 1967, Louis defined Kenyapithecus africanus on seven fossils from Rusinga Island . He saw it as an ancestor of wickeri and also of man, with a date of 20 mya in the middle Miocene . Another fossil found by the VanCouverings on Rusinga in 1967 seemed to confirm africanus . In 1969 Simons and Pilbeam moved Kenyapithecus africanus into Dryopithecus nyanzae . By 1978 the genus had recovered from the Dryopithecine event and was back to Proconsul. In that year Andrews moved Clark & Leakey s 1951 Sivapithecus africanus into Proconsul nyanzae . A more recent discovery by Ward et al. in 1999 ref cite journal author S. Ward, B. Brown, A. Hill, J. Kelley, W. Downs year 1999 url http www.sciencemag.org cgi content full 28 ... more details
and Pilbeam D title Kenyan finds not early Miocene Sivapithecus journal Nature volume 321 issue 6069 ... author David Pilbeam, Michael D. Rose, John C. Barry & S. M. Ibrahim Shah title New Sivapithecus humeri from Pakistan and the relationship of Sivapithecus and Pongo journal Nature volume 348 pages 237 ... citation date June 2002 author Madar SI, Rose MD, Kelley J, MacLatchy L, & Pilbeam D title New Sivapithecus ... 1 May 2010 isbn 9781862390362 citation year 2001 author Pilbeam, D.R., & Young, N.M chapter Sivapithecus ... more details
small Elliot, 1913 small Tribus Sivapithecini Sivapithecus small Pilgrim, 1910 small Sivapithecus indicus small Pilgrim, 1910 small Sivapithecus parvada small Kelley, 1988 small Sivapithecus sivalensis ... more details
Refimprove date April 2009 italictitle Taxobox fossil range Miocene image Oreopithecus bambolii 1.JPG image width 270px image caption Oreopithecus bambolii fossil regnum Animal ia phylum Chordata classis Mammal ia ordo Primates superfamilia Hominoidea familia Oreopithecidae ? genus Oreopithecus species O. bambolii binomial Oreopithecus bambolii binomial authority Paul Gervais Gervais , 1872 Oreopithecus is an extinction extinct primate from the Miocene epoch whose fossil s have been found in today s Tuscany and Sardinia in Italy . Oreopithecus existed Mya 9 7 in the Tusco Sardinian area when this territory was an isolated island in an Island arc arc of islands stretching from central Europe to northern Africa. ref group explain In what remained of the Tethys Sea or what was becoming the Mediterranean Sea see also Mediterranean Basin Geology and paleoclimatology Geology and paleoclimatology of the Mediterranean Basin and Messinian salinity crisis ref It was one of a large number of European immigrants that settled this area in the Vallesian Turolian transition and one of few hominoids to survive the so called Vallesian Vallesian Crisis together with Sivapithecus in Asia. ref name Agust harvnb Agust Ant n 2002 pp Prefix ix , 174 5, 193, 197 9 ref To date, dozens of individuals have been discovered at the Tuscany Tuscan localities of ref for localities Montebamboli, Montemassi, Casteani, Ribolla, and, most notably, in the fossil rich lignite mine in the Baccinello Basin, ref name Agust making it one of the best represented fossil ape s. Etymology The scientific name Oreopithecus quickly inspired the commonly used though unofficial name for the species among paleontologists, Cookie Monster . The true etymology, however, is rather more mundane it comes from the Greek wikt , oros and wikt , pithekos, meaning hill ape . Evolutionary history Oreopithecus bambolii was first described by French paleontologist Paul Gervais in 1872. In the 1950s, Sw ... more details
This page gives an overview of the history of Bratislava the capital of Slovakia and the country s largest city. Prehistory Image Web Biatec.jpg thumb right An original Biatec and its replica on a modern 5 Slovak koruna koruna coin. In the area where present day Bratislava lies, three skeletons of the Epi Pliopithecus vindobonensis were found in the borough Dev nska Nov Ves in 1957, dating 25&ndash 15 million years ago. Teeth of the Griphopithecus suessi formerly known as Sivapithecus darwiny or Dryopithecus darwiny , dating 14&ndash 10 million years ago, were also found in Dev nska Nov Ves, this time in 1902. From the Paleolithic period, hand axes and other stone tools of Homo heidelbergensis from the periods about 0.45 million years and about 0.3 million years ago and of Neanderthal man were found. The first known permanent settlements on the town s territory Linear Ceramics Culture was in Neolithic . The first known fortified settlement on the area of later medieval castle of Bratislava appeared in Eneolithic . In the Bronze Age there were settlements from both older and younger Urnfield cultures part of the period. On the area of later Dev n caste one finds important clues to final period of Bronze Age Podoli Culture , when a fortified settlement arose on the strategic place rock cliff over Morava River river Morava joining river Danube . Early Iron Age Early Iron Age brought a shift of the settlement centre again to the area of today s historical centre and castle of Bratislava. Many finds support the theory that both castle hill and area of the town on an important river crossing formed an important seat of local Hallstatt Culture Prince, while richly furnished mounds barrows were excavated on eastern suburbs of the city. Late Iron Age La T ne culture La T ne period is defined as from 450 BCE to 50 BCE. Celts more exactly the tribe of Boii formed between 125 50 BC an important Celtic oppidum fortified town with a mint on area of castle hill and historical ce ... more details
creationism2 File Man is But a Worm.jpg thumb A satirical cartoon from 1882, parodying Darwin s theory of evolution, in response to the publication of The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms The creation evolution controversy also termed the creation vs. evolution debate or the origins debate is a recurring culture wars cultural , political, and theology theological dispute about the origins of Age of the Earth the Earth , human evolution humanity , abiogenesis life , and Big Bang the universe . ref See harvnb Hovind 2006 for example. ref The dispute is between those who, Before changing or editing this statement, please use the talk page to discuss despite contrary evidence for evolution evidence , explain the evidence within creationism based upon their religious belief s, versus those who accept modern evolution evolutionary biology , geology and cosmology , as supported by metaphysical naturalism naturalism . The dispute particularly involves the field of evolutionary biology , but also the fields of geology , palaeontology , and cosmology . sfn Isaak 2006 Though also present in Europe and elsewhere, ref name Science Feb09 harvnb Curry 2009 p 1159 News coverage of the creationism versus evolution debate tends to focus on the United States But in the past 5 years, political clashes over the issue have also occurred in countries all across Europe. This isn t just an American problem, says Dittmar Graf of the Technical University of Dortmund, who organized the meeting. ref and often portrayed as part of the culture war s, ref harvnb Larson 2004 pages 247 263 . Chapter titled Modern Culture Wars . See also harvnb Ruse 1999 p 26 , who writes One thing that historians delighted in showing is that, contrary to the usually held tale of conflict thesis science and religion being always opposed religion and theologically inclined philosophy have frequently been very significant factors in the forward movement of science. ref this debate is most preval ... more details
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