Family Tree Missing Branches
Nothing witty, snarky or stupid to say here. Just interesting.
We know the fossil record underestimates diversity at least a little, and we know that forested environments in Africa tend to be underrepresented. Given this, the diversity of Miocene apes may have been rather impressive, because there is a fairly high diversity in what we can assume is a biased record.
Greg Laden’s Blog : How diverse were early hominoids?
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