Famous paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey brings a 20 million year-old proconsul africanus skull - that she found during an excavation on Lake Victoria - to the UK with her. BBC Archive: This clip from ...
The ape in the tree is Proconsul, a fossil ape known exclusively from East Africa. It has many things to recommend it as a subject for a book: it is the earliest known ape in the fossil record (dating ...
Anthropologists agree that the family of man and the family of apes sprang from a common ancestor. But they have never been able to agree on the time at which man and apes began to take separate paths ...