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The PEDIGREE of
Superfamily of Great Apes
   possible prototype is Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (discovered 2004)

Born:  14 M BC


 Children:         Clade of Hominid & Gorilla   ;   Ramapithecus (ancestor of Lufengpithecus : Gigantopithecus)   ;   Orangutan
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/-- Proto-Class Amniota   +====> [ 52]
/-- Proto-Class of Warm-blooded Vertebrates
/-- Class of Mammals
/-- Subclass of Therial Mammals
/-- Infraclass [McKenna] of Placental Mammals
/-- Cohort of Epitherials  (110? M BC - ?)
/-- Subcohort [McKenna] Carnivora-Archonta-Ungulata
/-- Broad Clade of Archonta (Bat-Ape) and Ungulata (Rat-Beast-Whale)
/-- Clade [McKenna] Archonta (Chiroptera-Dermoptera-Primata)
/   | OR: prob. Subcohort [Biochem] (P) Glire-Euarchonta   +====> [ 59]
/-- Clade (P) Euarchonta
/-- Primates, Order (P) of  (55 M BC - ?)
/-- Suborder of Anthropoid Primates  (40 M BC - ?)
/-- Infraorder of Apes  (24? M BC - ?)
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- Superfamily of Great Apes
 

  ``3-Great Grandchild:''        Ardepithecus ramidus
  (poss.) ``9-Great Grandchildren:''        Man of the Middle Mousterian toolkit   ;   Homo sapiens sapiens   ;   First Advanced Speaker
 

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