More than 10 million years ago, the world was brimming with a wide variety of apes. Scientists studying the ones that are still alive today can learn a lot about human evolution—but they miss out on many clues that can only be found from the apes that went extinct. Watch to learn how fossil apes have strengthened ideas about how humans evolved, and what steps we can take to learn even more about our ancient ancestors.
*Correction, 12 May, 4:45 p.m.: In the above video at 1:10 we stated that some living apes today adapted to survive in new, open environments. This is inaccurate—surviving lineages of apes likely specialized to live in the remaining tropical forests, not in open environments. At 1:45 Pierolapithecus catalaunicus is misspelled. At 2:25 we state that fewer Miocene apes have been discovered in Africa than in Europe. To clarify, this refers to the mid-to-late Miocene.
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