# Hominins Originated in Africa from Ape Ancestors Unlike Any Living Species,

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**Created:** [May 8, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/hominins-originated-in-africa-from-ape-ancestors-unlike-any-living-species/13694 "2021-05-08T16:22:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Patrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@Patrick](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Patrick)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/hominins-originated-in-africa-from-ape-ancestors-unlike-any-living-species/13694/1 "2021-05-08T16:22:56Z")

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> **[Hominins Originated in Africa from Ape Ancestors Unlike Any Living Species,...](http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/hominin-origins-09634.html)**
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> Paleoanthropologists concluded that the morphology of fossil apes was varied and that it is likely that the last shared ape ancestor had its own set of traits, different from those of modern humans and modern apes.

> **[Fossil apes and human evolution](https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6542/eabb4363)**
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> There has been much focus on the evolution of primates and especially where and how humans diverged in this process. It has often been suggested that the last common ancestor between humans and other apes, especially our closest relative, the...

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**Author:** ![Mercer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Mercer](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Mercer)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/hominins-originated-in-africa-from-ape-ancestors-unlike-any-living-species/13694/2 "2021-05-08T17:22:38Z")

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I love that the authors chose to use a silhouette of a running, pregnant woman in that figure.

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**Author:** ![Chad\_the\_Layman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ba8739/32.png) [@Chad\_the\_Layman](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Chad_the_Layman)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/hominins-originated-in-africa-from-ape-ancestors-unlike-any-living-species/13694/3 "2021-05-09T15:38:53Z")

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Is the idea that the LCA of humans and chimps most likely would not have been chimp-like novel? Seems intuitive that the LCA might be like and unlike both humans and apes.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/peacefulscience/original/2X/6/6b7bf72453a5c60b0919b6b89a27dc18bc52382c.png) [@system](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/hominins-originated-in-africa-from-ape-ancestors-unlike-any-living-species/13694/4 "2021-05-16T15:39:05Z")

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