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Lufengpithecus

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Noun1.Lufengpithecus - a genus of Hominidae
mammal genus - a genus of mammals
family Hominidae, Hominidae - modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man


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Dryopithecus emerged in Europe, and its fossil relatives Lufengpithecus and Sivapithecus appeared in China and South Asia, respectively.
Noting that sex contrasts in tooth size closely correspond to sex differences in body size among all living primates, he argues that Lufengpithecus represented a single species in which these gender disparities exceeted the modern limit.
From about 15 million to 7 million years ago, as many as five genera on the orangutan lineage lived throughout central Europe and Asia, including Ouranopithecus, Sivapithecus in south Asia and Lufengpithecus in China, Delson contends.
 
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