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Anthropologists agree that the family of man and the family of apes sprang from a common ancestor. But they have never been able to agree on the time at which man and apes began to take separate paths ...

A mandible of Kenyapithecus africanus, with many of the teeth preserved, has been found at Kathwanga, Rusinga Island, Kenya. Previously the lower dentition of this species was unknown—except by ...