Given the large size and arboreal niche of the extant apes (gibbons are probably secondarily dwarfed: Tyler, 1993), large body size may also be a stem hominoid characteristic. In crown hominoids ...

called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer. As scientists discover new fossils, the hominid family tree grows new branches. But fossils are often difficult to categorize ...

Hominoid primates including Dryopithecus in Spain and Hungary, Oreopithecus in Italy, and Ouranopithecus in Greece flourished in the Miocene, approximately 10-7 million years ago. This volume examines ...