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PROF. W. E. LE GROS CLARK, discussing recent additions to evidence bearing on the phylogeny of man (Biol. Reviews, 15, 2, 1940), begins by passing in review the fossil man-like apes, commencing with the Eocene Tarsioids and the Anthropoidea, of which the earliest representative is Parapithecus from the Oligocene of Egypt. It has now become evident that at the beginning of the Miocene the main groups of the anthropoid apes which exist to-day were already undergoing separately their evolutionary definition. It is probable that the human line of descent became first differentiated at this period and that the initial appearance of the Hominidae is to be sought in the palaeontological records of this period.
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The Phylogeny of Man. Nature 145, 981–982 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145981a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145981a0