Our ancestors' ancestor: <i>Ouranopithecus</i> is a greek link in human ancestry

Louis de Bonis, George D. Koufos

doi:10.1002/evan.1360030303

Our ancestors' ancestor: <i>Ouranopithecus</i> is a greek link in human ancestry

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Recent discoveries of the late Miocene hominoid <jats:italic>Ouranopithecus</jats:italic> shed new light on the evolution of hominids. These discoveries result from the strategy of the Allied armies during the First World War. In the midst of “the war to end all wars,” the North African soldiers of Camille Arambourg excavated the first mammalian fossils found in northern Greece, in the region of Macedonia, the country of Alexander the Great. On the tracks of these strange paleontological pioneers, a modern French and Greek team has unearthed a large hominoid primate, a missing link between fossilapes and primitive <jats:italic>Australopithecus</jats:italic>, which lived in southeastern Europe 9 to 10 million years ago. A reconstruction of <jats:italic>Ouranopithecus</jats:italic> and its surroundings gives us a rare glimpse into the world of the earliest hominids.</jats:p>