griphopith

plural griphopiths

1. biologyAny of a group of morphologically similar early hominids of the genera Griphopithecus and Kenyapithecus.

   Griphopiths from all locations have shared derived characters that make them unique and very different from the Early Miocene apes.

   2011, Patricia J. Ash, David J. Robinson, The Emergence of Humans

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   Griphopiths are the earliest hominids, and their appearance in Europe at least a million years earlier than in Africa suggests that our family most likely arose in Europe—and not, as has been long assumed, in Africa.

   2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 112