Sentence examples for modern apes and from inspiring English sources

On the basis of his observations of the shape of the jaw and of the morphology of the teeth which he thought were transitional between those of apes and humans Simons advanced the theory that Ramapithecus represented the first step in the evolutionary divergence of humans from the common hominoid stock that produced modern apes and humans.

Given that all modern apes and many human groups eat insects, it is likely that early hominins did as well.

From a chaotic prehistoric world teaming with 30 different kinds of apes, a single lineage survived to give rise to modern apes and humans.

Sometimes scientists refer to the common ancestors of modern apes and humans as "apes," though it would be clearer to students if we were more careful to distinguish such ancestors from living forms, perhaps by consistently referring to them as "fossil apes".

They share with H. floresiensis, modern apes and australopithecines at least 11 postcranial features not found in unaffected humans.

The definition includes a mosaic of features, some like modern humans (hence derived: genus Homo), some like modern apes and australopithecines (hence primitive: not species sapiens), and some unique (hence new species: floresiensis).

In this paper, I briefly review this evolutionary history focusing on features important for understanding modern ape and human origins.

Update: The "find that will change everything" is a 47-million-year-old fossil found in Germany of a primate that could be the common ancestor of modern apes, monkeys, and humans.

Therefore the debate that immediately followed the publication of On the Origin of Species centered on the similarities and differences between humans and modern apes.

A substantial sample of upper and lower canines (and lower third premolars) showed that the upper canines of Ardipithecus did not sharpen (hone) as did those of all fossil and modern apes.

Although scientific evidence informs us that humans and modern apes evolved in present-day Africa from common primate ancestors some six million years ago (Smith and Sullivan 2007), a common misconception concerning human origins is addressed in statement 21 ('According to the theory of evolution, humans evolved from monkeys, gorillas, or apes').