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Dryopithecus was one of the most advanced families of extinct apes.
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- They are the early members of the human and other types of ape.
- It has been known many types of Dryopithecus existed in past including the small ones, medium and large ones.
- The physical functioning was advanced from that of other apes but not completely matching around humans.
- For example the canine teeth of Dryopithecus were larger than humans but not strong than other apes.
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(1) Dryopithecus is also called Proconsul. Leakey discovered the fossils of Dryopithecus, on an island in Lake Victoria of Africa. Also the fossil was found in Haritalyanga in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh.
(2) It was a group of apes that lived in Miocene epoch about 20 to 25 milion years ago.
(3) Several species of Dryopithecus are available, the important among these is African fossil D. africanus
(4) Dryopithecus has a close similarity to chimpanzee and also walked like a modern chimparzee.
(5) The structure of its limbs and wrists show that knuckle walking was lesser in it. It used the flat of its hands like a monkey
(6) It had arms and legs of the same length and had a semi-erect posture.
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