<I>Proconsul</I> (IMAGE)

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<I>Proconsul</I>

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The early ape Proconsul (center) and the primate Dendropithecus (upper right) inhabited a warm and relatively wet, closed canopy tropical seasonal forest 18 million years ago in equatorial eastern Africa (Rusinga Island, Kenya).

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(Image courtesy of Jason Brougham)

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