A new species of great ape from the late Miocene epoch in Ethiopia

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Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, New Hominid, Evolutionary Biology +6

Genomic Divergences between Humans and Other Hominoids and the Effective Population Size of the Common Ancestor of Humans and Chimpanzees

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Phylogenetics, Molecular Ecology, Natural Sciences +11

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Phylogenetics, Natural Sciences, Early Hominid +7

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Genetics, Primate Systematics, Divergence Times +19

First hominid from the Miocene (Lukeino Formation, Kenya)

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