Scientists discover 'Kim's ape' about 18 million years ago

BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhua Sun Self-Law) reporter 11 from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (
Paleontology Institute) was informed that the institute scientists in cooperation with Chinese and foreign scientific research colleagues, in Anhui Province, Chang County, ancient animal fossils found about 18 million to 17 million years ago, the new genus of the upper ape super-species, named "King's Chang chang ape."
the discovery of the ape in the upper ape superco, which provides a new understanding of the evolutionary history of the upper ape superco, and proves that East Asia is the important early evolution center of the upper ape superco. This important research paper has recently been published in the international professional academic journal, the Journal of Human Evolution.Zhang Yingqi, author of the
paper communication and a researcher at the
Institute of Ancient Spines, said that the name of the Ape species in Jin's Changchang was dedicated to the jinchangzhu researcher of the
Institute of Ancient Spine to commemorate his discovery of fossils of the new genus and his contribution to the research work on the site of ancient human activities in The People's Cave in Anhui Province.
the study's newly discovered fossil material for the Kim's prosperous ape included 108 free teeth, covering all the tooth species in the upper and lower tooth column except the lower door teeth. The accompanying rodent fossils show that the fissure accumulation age of the apes containing Jin's prosperity can be compared with that of the Linyishan Wang Group in Shandong Province (about 18 million to 17 million years ago), and slightly younger than that of the Lower Grass Bay Group in Shaohong, Jiangsu Province (about 19 million to 18 million years ago), and is in the late Middle and New Ages.
Zhang Yingqi pointed out that the upper ape superco can be divided into drunk ape, upper ape, Kruzel ape and Krishna ape section 4 sections, the earliest upper ape supercodone is from the eastern Chinese Jiangsu Province, Suhong Shi grass bay of the drunk ape section. The results of morphological comparison and systematic development analysis showed that the king's ape belonged to the dry group of Kreuzer ape Kokruzel ape Yako.
The age of the Kim's ape predated the appearance of the Kreuzer ape and the upper ape in Europe, and its discovery in China suggests that the upper ape and the Kreuzer ape division in China, and spread to Europe in the late or middle 1990s.
he believes that the original features retained by the Kim's ape suggest that the Kreuzer ape evolved from an ancestor of the upper ape or drunk ape. Members of Europe's Kreuzer ape family are more derivative than the Genus Kim's Cyrus, which only began to appear in China at least 3 million years later.
It is understood that the upper ape supercodes belong to the extinct and not present representative of a branch of the dry narrow-nosed monkey species, but also before the ape supercodes and monkey superskeges before the differentiation of a branch, its systematic development relationship with the real apes far away. Based on the current fossil evidence, the upper ape superco is the first group of narrow-nosed monkeys to enter Eurasia from Africa.
The narrow-nosed monkeys originated in the African-Arab land mass in ancient times, and before the early Meso-20 million years ago collided with Eurasia, the narrow-nosed monkeys had evolved major groups such as the original ape superco, the upper ape superco, the former Kansur ape superco, and the monkey superco and the human super-ape.