Proconsul, or a creature much like him, was the common ancestor of man and apes. He prowled in the Oldoway area where Mary Leakey found a skull, 20 to 25 million years ago. He could have evolved either towards tree-living like apes, or towards erect life on the grasslands, like early man.
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52Proconsul, or a creature much like him, was the common ancestor of man and apes. He prowled in the Oldoway area where Mary Leakey found a skull, 20 to 25 million years ago. He could have evolved either towards tree-living like apes, or towards erect life on the grasslands, like early man. Press, 10 November 1981, Page 34
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