A roughly 13-million-year-old partial skeleton unearthed in northeastern Spain comes from a creature that, according to its discoverers, was a key evolutionary precursor of chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and people.
A team led by Salvador Moyà-Solà of the Miguel Crusafont Institute of Paleontology in Barcelona has assigned the find to a new genus and species, Pierolapithecus catalaunicus.
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