EVOLUTION OF APES

Evolution of Apes

Evolution of Apes

Introduction

For this paper, I have selected 'Apes' as animal species. Apes represent the group to old monkeys, and as such y share same evolutionary age, though any exhibit some highly derived features that separate m from all or primates. earliest fossil for apes is represented by Proconsul at 18 million years, though lineage must extend to at least time of earliest fossil representatives of catarrhine primates at 35 million years (Freeman, 2001). Incredible similarities between human species and great apes, particularly both common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and pygmy chimpanzee or bonobo (Pan paniscus), argue ...