Our ancestors' ancestor: Ouranopithecus is a greek link in human ancestry

Abstract

Abstract Recent discoveries of the late Miocene hominoid Ouranopithecus shed new light on the evolution of hominids. These discoveries result from the strategy of the Allied armies during the First World War. In the midst of “the war to end all wars,” the North African soldiers of Camille Arambourg excavated the first mammalian fossils found in northern Greece, in the region of Macedonia, the country of Alexander the Great. On the tracks of these strange paleontological pioneers, a modern French and Greek team has unearthed a large hominoid primate, a missing link between fossilapes and primitive Australopithecus, which lived in southeastern Europe 9 to 10 million years ago. A reconstruction of Ouranopithecus and its surroundings gives us a rare glimpse into the world of the earliest hominids.

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