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Why does the article mainly focus on the great apes? All apes, including gibbons lost their tails.
by ginko 3y ago
Why does the article mainly focus on the great apes? All apes, including gibbons lost their tails.
- anamexis 3y agoPresumably because humans are great apes.
- guerrilla 3y agoI feel like people don't focus on gibbons enough in general. It's all great apes and monkeys all the time.
- Gibbon1 3y agoI agree with this 100 percent
- samatman 3y agoThe actual article in Nature points out that there have been independent tail-loss events in non-hominoid monkeys. Which makes it all the more frustrating that gibbons aren't mentioned anywhere. Given when they identify the mutation as having occurred, we can tentatively conclude that gibbons lack a tail for the same reason other apes do: 25 million years for the mutation, and 16.8 million years for the divergence of gibbons from the great apes.