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> the incredible lack of hominid (great ape) fossils for the last many million years of years Why do you call it "incredible"?
by Florin_Andrei 15y ago
> the incredible lack of hominid (great ape) fossils for the last many million years of years
Why do you call it "incredible"?
- necolas 15y agoWell, maybe incredible isn't the best word. There are so few of them and it makes piecing together the evolution of modern Great Apes (particular over the last 10 million years) particularly difficult [1]. Perhaps their habitat was not conducive to fossilisation of remains. Don't really know enough about that area of research. But I'd guess that preservation bias is a factor. [1] http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g-BDjcKrIh9YFbsqsJiky6m2g6Nw http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g-BDjcKrIh9YFbsqsJiky6m2...