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epochs; fossil record. Which dates from 12.5 Ma to 7.4 Ma, where very much is unknown, regarding Old World
Monkeys. The examination and finds of the Cercopithecoids has allowed for the Tugen Hills to become a place of evolutionary evidence as well as included the middle to late Miocene period, an era
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was found. The Tugen Hills as previously mentioned has various fossil remains of hominids and ancestors to humans, apes and other primates. Specifically, Orrorin tugenensis was excavated at this specific archeological site, through this find various different ideas were concluded about the
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monkeys of Kenya are another 12.5 million year old fossils that have helped understand evolution as well as the ancestral standing of modern monkeys and apes. Though much of the fossil record is poorly documented the Tugen Hills site at Kenya can be analyzed through the
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The Tugen Hills represent one of the few areas in Africa preserving a succession of deposits from the period of between 14 and 4 million years ago, making them an important location for the study of human (and animal) evolution. Excavations at the site conducted by
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Chimpanzee and Orangutan. Moreover “the Original man of Tugen Hills” has helped archeologists, anthropologists and scientists see the transition and divergence between what is the hominid and the ancient ape.
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from 1 to 2 million years ago. In 1974 Martin
Pickford found a singular fossilised molar of a Orrorin tugenensis there, and that encouraged him to return 30 years later. In 1975, he named the fossilised finds
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