The mystery ape of Pleistocene Asia

@article{Ciochon2009TheMA,
  title={The mystery ape of Pleistocene Asia},
  author={R. Ciochon},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2009},
  volume={459},
  pages={910-911}
}
Fossil finds of early humans in southeast Asia may actually be the remains of an unknown ape. Russell Ciochon says that many palaeoanthropologists — including himself — have been mistaken. 
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