I doubt it, because New World monkeys didn't produce ape-like lifeforms as far as I remember anything, unless Bigfoot/Sasquatch counts. :P

The thing is, yes, apes originated in Africa. But they radiated from there, and likely a lot earlier than people are proclaiming. The fucking orangs didn't swim to Asia. They, too share a common ancestor that likely evolved from some African monkey. Unless they find evidence of pre-humanoid chimp-like apes in Asia or Europe ... I'm open to that, but I think humans ARE the major primate species of Eurasia, and have been since the "wood age".

Maybe genetics can point to which short-tailed/tailless monkey group did cough up the brachiating set.

As for specifically hairless, fat-bearing apes, well, they need clothing and fire before they can invade temperate forest biomes. Unless hairy apes developed that stuff first, and genetic drift and sexual selection went from there to trade hair for body fat, and the genes spread outward from there.

Late edit, I noticed brain farts produced the wrong words.

I doubt it, because Old World monkeys didn't produce ape-like lifeforms as far as I remember anything, unless Bigfoot/Sasquatch counts. :P

The thing is, yes, apes originated in Africa. But they radiated from there, and likely a lot earlier than people are proclaiming. The fucking orangs didn't swim to Asia. They, too share a common ancestor that likely evolved from some African monkey. Unless they find evidence of pre-humanoid chimp-like apes in Asia or Africa ... I'm open to that, but I think humans ARE the major primate species of Eurasia, and have been since the "wood age".

Maybe genetics can point to which short-tailed/tailless monkey group did cough up the brachiating set.

As for specifically hairless, fat-bearing apes, well, they need clothing and fire before they can invade temperate forest biomes. Unless hairy apes developed that stuff first, and genetic drift and sexual selection went from there to trade hair for body fat, and the genes spread outward from there.

I doubt it, because Old World monkeys didn't produce ape-like lifeforms as far as I remember anything, unless Bigfoot/Sasquatch counts. :P

The thing is, yes, apes originated in Africa. But they radiated from there, and likely a lot earlier than people are proclaiming. The fucking orangs didn't swim to Asia. They, too share a common ancestor that likely evolved from some African monkey. Unless they find evidence of pre-humanoid chimp-like apes in Asia or Africa ... I'm open to that, but I think humans ARE the major primate species of Eurasia, and have been since the "wood age".

Maybe genetics can point to which short-tailed/tailless monkey group did cough up the brachiating set.

As for specifically hairless, fat-bearing apes, well, they need clothing and fire before they can invade temperate forest biomes.

I doubt it, because Old World monkeys didn't produce ape-like lifeforms as far as I remember anything, unless Bigfoot/Sasquatch counts. :P

The thing is, yes, apes originated in Africa. But they radiated from there, and likely a lot earlier than people are proclaiming. The fucking orangs didn't swim to Asia. They, too share a common ancestor that likely evolved from some African monkey. Unless they find evidence of pre-humanoid chimp-like apes in Asia or Africa ... I'm open to that, but I think humans ARE the major primate species of Eurasia, and have been since the "wood age".

Maybe genetics can point to which short-tailed/tailless monkey group did cough up the brachiating set.

I doubt it, because Old World monkeys didn't produce ape-like lifeforms as far as I remember anything, unless Bigfoot/Sasquatch counts. :P

The thing is, yes, apes originated in Africa. But they radiated from there, and likely a lot earlier than people are proclaiming. The fucking orangs didn't swim to Asia. They, too share a common ancestor that likely evolved from some African monkey. Unless they find evidence of pre-humanoid chimp-like apes in Asia or Africa ... I'm open to that, but I think humans ARE the major primate species of Eurasia, and have been since the "wood age".