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	Oreopithecus Definition / Oreopithecus Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Oreopithecus bambolii, or swamp ape, is a hominoidApes are the members of the Hominoidea superfamily of primates, including humans.
		Oreopithecus is a mixture of cercopithecoid, hominoid and its.
		Oreopithecus is a smashed skeleton--a flattened roadkill of a fossil.
	www.elresearch.com /Oreopithecus (280 words)

	Oreopithecus was a bipedal ape after all: Evidence from the iliac cancellous architecture -- Rook et al. 96 (15): 8795 ...
		Oreopithecus was a bipedal ape after all: Evidence from the iliac cancellous architecture -- Rook et al.
		the posterosuperior rim of the Oreopithecus blade (Fig.
		As in humans, the Oreopithecus hip bone external morphology is characterized by the occurrence of a well-developed anteroinferior
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/96/15/8795 (1881 words)

	Paleobiology: Reassessing hominoid phylogeny: evaluating congruence in the morphological and temporal data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		For instance, Oreopithecus is displaced crownward in the cladogram, removing stratigraphic parsimony debt incurred by the MMPC.
		Oreopithecus is associated with a fauna that is a unique mixture of African and European taxa, and the localities from which this taxon is known are thought to sample the remnant of a now-submerged land corridor between northern African and southern Europe (Andrews et al.
		Oreopithecus is placed at the base of all great apes in the MMPC, sharing only primitive characters with the remainder of the Hominidae, and bootstrap analyses could find no strong support for resolving the polytomy at the base of this clade.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4067/is_200410/ai_n9458411/pg_8 (1253 words)

	Oreopithecus - Wikipedia
		Oreopithecus ("Bergaffe") ist eine ausgestorbene Primatengattung, von der bislang nur eine Art, O.
		Ob Oreopithecus vorwiegend pflanzliche Nahrung zu sich nahm oder ein Allesfresser war, ist nicht bekannt.
		Die stammesgeschichtliche Stellung von Oreopithecus ist umstritten, manchmal wird er in einer eigenen Familie (Oreopithecidae) als Seitenzweig der Überfamilie der Menschenartigen (Hominoidea) zugeordnet, manchmal jedoch auch als Mitglied der Familie der Menschenaffen (Hominidae) betrachtet.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oreopithecus (243 words)

	Science News Online - This Week - News Feature - 10/18/97
		Oreopithecus fossils have been excavated for more than a century in parts of central Italy.
		Overall, the creature's lower body falls in between that of apes and australopithecines, an early group of hominid species, the scientists report in the Oct. 14 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
		Further study of Oreopithecus may help researchers sort out influences on the evolution of upright walking in hominids, Pilbeam notes.
	www.sciencenews.org /pages/sn_arc97/10_18_97/fob1.htm (483 words)

	John Hawks Anthropology Weblog : Oreopithecus :: overview
		Oreopithecus bambolii is known from a series of well-preserved fossils, including some relatively complete skeletons, from the north of Italy dated to between 7 and 9 million years ago.
		Oreopithecus fossils come from a region that was an island during the Late Miocene, so the population may have been isolated for some period of time during its evolution.
		The unique characteristics and primitive dentition make it difficult to determine the exact relationships of Oreopithecus with other fossil hominoids around its age, which are known almost exclusively from their teeth.
	www.johnhawks.net /weblog/fossils/apes/oreopithecus/oreopithecus_overview.html (390 words)

	Ein Affe auf zwei Beinen: Oreopithecus
		Oreopithecus bambolii ist ein ausgestorbener Affe, der in Ablagerungen des Obermiozäns der Toskana und Sardiniens (Italien) entdeckt wurde.
		Oreopithecus besitzt in der Lendenwirbelsäule Merkmale, von denen auf eine lumbale Lordose (Krümmung nach vorn) geschlossen werden kann.
		Oreopithecus ist somit ein endemischer Primat einer mediterranen Insel.
	www.wort-und-wissen.de /sij/sij61/sij61-6m.html (2220 words)

	The Immense Journey, by Loren Eiseley, at American-Buddha Online Library
		By the time scientists had begun to respond, the press had passed on to other things, leaving in the mind of the public a confused vision of a sort of "little man" who, so the newspapers said, had been found in a coal mine in Tuscany.
		Like most such episodes, that of Oreopithecus has a history, and the argument over it is of the same general nature as two similar controversies fought within the memory of men now living.
		Hurzeler, after studying the original fossil and later finds, has become convinced that Oreopithecus is the first manlike form discovered in the Tertiary Period--it is believed to date from the Miocene.
	www.childoffortune.com /the.maze.htm (2275 words)

	Ape-like or hominid-like? The positional behavior of Oreopithecus bambolii reconsidered -- Köhler and ...
		Oreopithecus bambolii (1) is an Upper Miocene (Turolian, 9-7 my) (2) large-bodied hominoid.
		The lumbar region of Oreopithecus comprises five vertebrae (6, 7, 13).
		The Oreopithecus foot, previously described as chimp-like (19), differs from the latter considerably (Fig.
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/94/21/11747 (2410 words)

	Comments to
		Oreopithecus was thought to prove that hominids evolved in an island environment.
		Oreopithecus could be a hominoid and human ancestor, one of the brachiator apes that were abundant in the forests of Northern Africa and Southern Europe of that time.
		I cannot see, however, why that particular fossil proves that hominoids evolved in island environment; at the most it proves that some hominoids lived in such environment, and not much can be concluded of that.
	home13.inet.tele.dk /palm/homcom.htm (5254 words)

	Evidence of hominid-like precision grip capability in the hand of the Miocene ape Oreopithecus -- ...
		Note that the hand of Oreopithecus (IGF specimen) and that of Dryopithecus (CLL-18800) differ greatly in size despite the comparable estimated body mass and the similar arm lengths of both individuals (30).
		Note the human-like (proximal) orientation of the facet for the capitate in Oreopithecus and in Homo and the ape (medial) orientation in Pan.
		Note the lack of waisting on the Oreopithecus capitate and the Homo capitate and its presence in Pan.
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/96/1/313 (2733 words)

	Archimedes Plutonium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But let us say he is accurate with the facts and data of Oreopithecus in that a fossil hand was found and it was found in Italy and that it dates to 8 million years old and that it has clear signs of Opposable Thumb/precision grip.
		The facts of Oreopithecus suggest the theory of Stonethrowing lead to bipedalism and that the Cradle of Homo species was not Africa but instead Italy.
		Oreopithecus would eventually become an advanced stonethrower and this creature is what is known as Orrorin.
	www.iw.net /~a_plutonium/File069a.html (16193 words)

	Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Flesh from Stone -- A paleoartist reflects on the process of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		THIS IMAGE of Oreopithecus was rendered using a process akin to that practiced by forensic illustrators.
		Oreopithecus is another bizarre ape, and the fourth that I rendered.
		It has a number of great ape-like characteristics, but some of the features in its cranium and teeth are not great ape-like at all, leaving researchers conflicted as to how to classify it.
	sciam.com /article.cfm?articleID=0006FD89-5BA7-1F18-B4FD80A84189EEDF (814 words)

	L’Oreopithecus
		In particolare, la presenza del muscolo che consente di flettere il pollice, muscolo specifico dell'uomo, a far ipotizzare che Oreopithecus bambolii possedesse, come i primi ominidi, abilità manipolative.
		Il paleontologo Paul Gervais, in visita in Italia, ebbe il permesso di portare gli interessantissimi campioni a Parigi, dove potette studiarli approfonditamente.
		Da allora numerosi altri resti fossili di Oreopithecus bambolii sono stati rinvenuti in altre località della Maremma (Acquanera, Baccinello, Casteani, Monte Bamboli, Montemassi e Ribolla) e, recentemente, nei depositi fluviali di Fiume Santo, in Sardegna.
	www.ribollastory.net /scimmia.html (489 words)

	Book Review
		C. Ward presents a more formal cladistic analysis of the hindlimb and finds somewhat similar results although her analysis does not include Cercopithecoidea and Ceboidea.
		The placement of Oreopithecus had been hotly debated for decades, but in this book there is remarkable agreement among the different authors.
		They note that the East African genus, Nyanzapithecus was probably not its ancestor but rather a form that evolved dental resemblances to Oreopithecus independently.
	www.anthro.ucdavis.edu /faculty/mchenry/miocene.htm (1328 words)

	Mailgate: sci.anthropology.paleo: Re: Orrorin compared to Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Though > > perhaps bipedal, there are far too many derived dissimilarities in > > Oreopithecus to put it on the ancestral line leading to the hominins.
		So for Oreopithecus to be a human ancestor, its line would have had to evolve the unusual teeth, and then evolve back to monkey-like teeth.
		If you knew anything at all about evolutionary theory, you would realise that this is extremely unlikely, and extremely strong evidence that Oreopithecus is not a hominid ancestor, but an interesting and unusual cousin...
	www.mailgate.org /sci/sci.anthropology.paleo/msg209916.html (616 words)

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		Canine reduction in the miocene hominoid Oreopithecus bambolii: behavioural and evolutionary implications.
		Although Oreopithecus displays a significant degree of canine height sexual dimorphism, using allometric techniques and body mass estimates for fossil species, it is shown that Oreopithecus males are microdont (smaller postcanine as well as canine teeth than expected) when compared to most living hominoids and its putative ancestor Dryopithecus.
		Interestingly, it had been previously proposed that Oreopithecus displays, like pygmy chimpanzees, a paedomorphic cranial morphology resulting in a reduction of facial prognathism, which could be related to microdontia in both taxa.
	www.twinpharm.com /ref-evolution-1/evolution-1-research-abs4.377.html (1216 words)

	Discover: An upstanding ape - bipedal ape Oreopithecus bambolii - Brief Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But until Kohler and her colleague Salvador Moya-Sola undertook a detailed study of hundreds of O. bambolii bone fragments warehoused in the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland, no one knew that the ape walked upright.
		Besides having an S-shaped spine and the long femur typical of bipeds, the three-foot-tall Oreopithecus had an unusual foot for an ape.
		Where our own foot bones are rigid, well suited for fast walking, those of Oreopithecus still had some of the flexibility of a climbing ape's feet.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n2_v19/ai_20159521 (522 words)

	The Neanderthal theory of autism, Asperger and ADHD
		Oreopithecus was a swamp-ape that lived 7 to 9 million years ago on an isolated island in today's Italy.
		Oreopithecus might be very close to the common ancestor of Pan, Homo and Gorilla.
		If Oreopithecus was the ancestor of humans, this would also explain a large number of aquatic adaptations found in today's humans, but not in other primate species.
	www.rdos.net /eng/asperger.htm#Abstract (13378 words)

	Comune di Scansano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Nel 1954 espresse la sua ipotesi rivoluzionaria: in un breve articoletto affermò che Oreopithecus era un ominide, cioè un remoto antenato dell’uomo, producendo un profondo effetto sul mondo scientifico e fece nascere un dibattito di grandissima portata.
		Durante una visita al Museo di Paleontologia di Firenze, venne a conoscenza del ritrovamento di nuovi ritrovamenti di resti di Oreopithecus nella miniera di Baccinello, presso Grosseto.
		Successivamente pubblicò alcuni articoli scientifici su Oreopithecus nei quali metteva in risalto i caratteri di tipo esclusivamente umano che si riscontrano in questo primate.
	www.comune.scansano.gr.it /eventi/hurzeler.htm (1080 words)

	Dino Land Travels Database Florence Museum: Oreopithecus
		If you have ever heard of the Florence Museum of Natural History it is likely due to this spectacular fossil specimen of the primate Oreopithecus bambolii.
		"In 1959 the skeleton of Oreopithecus bambolii, an anthropoid primate from the upper Miocene, was discovered in the lignite mine of Baccinello, a small mining town about 30 km east of Grosseto.
		The news that, on the night of August 2nd, two miners had noticed the presence of an almost complete skeleton at the entreance to the mine-still visible today-rewarded years of patient research by the Swiss paleontologist from Basel, Prof.
	www.geocities.com /stegob/florencemonkey.html (487 words)

	Re: NOVA's Neanderthals on Trial; Were Neanderthals stonethrowers???
		And the remainder 45 minutes > of the program is swamped with scientists who are in a sort of > hate-denial of this fact that Neanderthal was a different species than > homo-sapiens or CroMagnon.
		I thought Oreopithecus became extinct because Neanderthals kept twisting them apart to get at the creamy filling.
		Some theorize that a few Oreopithecus survived and have given rise to legends of a creature haunting the remote Himalayas and Sesame Street - the fabled 'Cookie Monster.'
	www.usenet.com /newsgroups/sci.med/msg02201.html (240 words)

	ABSTRACTS CONGRESSO API DI PISTOIA
		Oreopithecus bambolii is an endemic fossil primate whose precise affinities have been the subject of much debate ever since Gervais' description in 1872.
		A larger Oreopithecus sample was recovered from a lignite mine in the Baccinello basin (Grosseto), in a faunal assemblage referred as V1.
		Until recent times, however, a direct comparison of Oreopithecus from different faunas in the same basin has been impossible because it was absent from the Baccinello V2 sample.
	www.unipv.it /webbio/api/pistoia.htm (7855 words)

	Pierolapithecus --) Oreopithecus --) Orrorin --) humanity; Cradle of : Paleo Forum : Active Low-Carber Forums
		Oreopithecus began throwing rocks and stones which would
		Pierolapithecus and Oreopithecus that is a species that threw
		Oreopithecus found in southern Italy that if we draw a line
	forum.lowcarber.org /showthread.php?t=220503 (1559 words)

	Active Low-Carber Forums - Foot of Oreopithecus indicates a stationary existence
		Re: Foot of Oreopithecus indicates a stationary existence
		the feet (of Oreopithecus) are derived in a
		>> > Oreopithecus is not ancestral to hominids.
	forum.lowcarber.org /printthread.php?t=221253 (1204 words)

	Re: Bipedalism thought experiment
		What else IYO would a suspensory ape in swamp forests (Helio-, Austriaco-, Dryo-, Lufeng-, Oreopithecus...
		Simple question: What else IYO would a suspensory ape in swamp forests (Helio-, Austriaco-, Dryo-, Lufeng-, Oreopithecus...
		Why dou you believe a suspensory ape in swamp forests (Helio-, Austriaco-, Dryo-, Lufeng-, Oreopithecus...
	www.usenet.com /newsgroups/sci.anthropology.paleo/msg03721.html (409 words)

	LookSmart - Fossil Primates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Profiles the bipedal ape, Oreopithecus baambolii, that lived four million years ago and compares its anatomy with human anatomy.
		Article considers the discovery of Bahinia pondaungensis, one of the earliest known primates and compares the fossils to Eosimias.
		Museum describes the oreopithecus fossil specimen that visitors are allowed to touch and relates the history of its discovery.
	www.looksmart.com /eus1/eus302562/eus317836/eus317914/eus53774/eus579630/eus557297/eus968770/r?l& (277 words)

	Palanth.com
		In that respect I would be interested in an overview on "Oreopithecus bambolii" which I had never heard about before you mentionned them.
		Current internet champion of Oreopithecus as a human ancestor probably is Marcel Williams, who has a website that can inform with all you want to know (and maybe more), at:
		Thanks for your guidance, it is most helpful as I wouldn't be in a position to judge the qualiyt of the research done by Marcel Williams about Oreopithecus as a human ancestor.
	www.palanth.com /forum/index.php?topic=727.new (5166 words)

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