Egyptian jawbone expands the range of great apes

A jawbone discovered in Egypt pushes back the known geographical limits of great ape presence in antiquity.

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This fossil revises the ancestral distribution of these primates across the African continent.

The discovery redraws the map of prehistoric great ape settlement.

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