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Relationships of Miocene Hominoidea are re-evaluated in the light of two new fossil pongids from the early Miocene of Rusinga and Songhor, one an undetermined species of Proconsul possibly ancestral to orang-utans and the other an undetermined species of Aegyptopithecus.
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ANDREWS, P. Two New Fossil Primates from the Lower Miocene of Kenya. Nature 228, 537–540 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228537a0
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