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PONGID Etymology: ultimately from Kongo mpongi ape: any of a family (Pongidae) of apes that includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan any of a family (Pongidae) of primates including the gorilla, orangutan, and chimpanzees -- called also pongid HOMINID Etymology: New Latin Hominidae, from Homin-, Homo + -idae - any of a family (Hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals comprising recent humans together with extinct ancestral and related forms PALEONTOLOGY Etymology: French paleontologie, from pale- pale- + Greek onta existing things (from neuter plural of ont-, On, present participle of einai to be) + French -logie -logy -- - a science dealing with the life of past geological periods as known from fossil remains AUSTRALOPHITECINE Etymology: ultimately from Latin australis + Greek pithEkos ape - any of a genus (Australopithecus) of extinct southern and eastern African hominids that include gracile and robust forms with near-human dentition and a relatively small brain AFRICAN HOMINIDAE Australophitecus: -africanus (afarensis); boisei; crassidien; robustus. HOMO: _habilis; erectus; sapiens(rhodesiensis, neanderthalensis, afer). APES (pongoid) to AUSTRALOPHITECINE. 1963: Kenyapithecus Wicken, 120 million years old. Zinjathropus Boisei, Nutcracker Man. - Early Stone Age (Paleolithic): Emergence of human at the end of the last Ice Age (c. 10 000 B.C.). - 150 000: Acheulian Handaxe culture survived longest in Africa than in other parts of the world where it was spread. |
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