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The Ape in the Tree An Intellectual and Natural History ~ Today Proconsul is the bestknown fossil ape in the world The history of ideas is set against the vivid adventures of Walkers fossilhunting expeditions in remote regions of Africa where the team met with violent thunderstorms dangerous wildlife and people isolated from the Western world

The Ape in the Tree An Intellectual and Natural History ~ The Ape in the Tree is written in the voice of Alan Walker whose involvement with Proconsul began when his graduate supervisor analyzed the treeclimbing adaptations in the arm and hand of this extinct creature Today Proconsul is the bestknown fossil ape in the world

The Ape in the Tree An Intellectual and Natural History ~ Today Proconsul is the best known fossil ape in the world The history of ideas is set against the vivid adventures of Walkers fossil hunting expeditions in remote regions of Africa The history of ideas is set against the vivid adventures of Walkers fossil hunting expeditions in remote regions of Africa

The Ape in the Tree An Intellectual and Natural History ~ Proconsul was a creature that lived soon after these two major lineages had split and it has many characteristics in common with both apes and monkeys For example it did not have a tail like living apes but it was a slow moving arboreal quadruped like many monkeys It had a pattern of growth intermediate between modern apes and monkeys

9780674016750 The Ape in the Tree An Intellectual and ~ The Ape in the Tree is written in the voice of Alan Walker whose involvement with Proconsul began when his graduate supervisor analyzed the treeclimbing adaptations in the arm and hand of this extinct creature Today Proconsul is the bestknown fossil ape in the world

The Ape in the Tree An intellectual and natural history ~ It also tells how an intrepid anthropologist hunted for clues buried 18 million years ago in Africa in order to learn what physical features of our last common ancestor originally united apes

The ape in the tree an intellectual and natural history ~ Today Proconsul is the bestknown fossil ape in the world The history of ideas is set against the vivid adventures of Walkers fossilhunting expeditions in remote regions of Africa where the team met with violent thunderstorms dangerous wildlife and people isolated from the Western world

Climbing the evolutionary tree Nature ~ The Ape in the Tree An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul The ape in the tree is Proconsul a fossil ape known exclusively from East Africa It has many things to recommend it as

Proconsul mammal Wikipedia ~ Proconsuls monkeylike features include pronograde postures indicated by a long flexible back curved metacarpals and an abovebranch arboreal quadrupedal positional repertoire The primary feature linking Proconsul with extant apes is its lack of a tail other apelike features include its enhanced grasping capabilities stabilized elbow joint and facial structure