I Used to Date His Sister Dept.

 

Paleoartist John Gurche reconstructed the fossil
apes featured in an article on ape evolution from the August issue of
Scientific American.
They are supposedly the most accurate representations of our hominid
ancestors ever created.

"For
this article I picked the five fossil apes that are the most completely
known. Thus you have Dryopithecus and Ouranopithecus,
which are probably closely related to the African great apes, including
humans. And in fact, in the final reconstructions, these two look like
African apes. Then there is Sivapithecus, which is closely related
to orangutans on almost everyone’s evolutionary tree. Sivapithecus is
really
outrageous, because it takes some of the things that make orangutan
faces stand out from other living apes to an unbelievable extreme."

from Scientific American

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