That's what your extended family member would have resembled roughly halfway back to the dinosaurs, temporally speaking. We're getting close to your ultimate primate grandparents. But first ...
Louis Leakey died in 1972 of a heart attack. Mary, Richard, and Meave continued to work on discovering human origins and untangling the primate family tree. In the 1970s, however, Richard also had ...
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Hominidae is the primate family otherwise known as ‘the great apes’. Humans belong in this family group along with bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans. The great apes are the ...