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Pongidae

Known as: great ape, great apes, apes, Ape 
An obsolete name for a family of Primates consisting of three genera: Pongo (PONGO PYGMAEUS), Pan (PAN TROGLODYTES and PAN PANISCUS), and Gorilla… 
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7 relations

Broader (2)

AnthropoideaHominidae

Narrower (3)

Gorilla <Western Gorilla>Gorilla <genus>Pongo
HominoideaHylobatidae

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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Evolutionary Relationships of Wild Hominids Recapitulated by Gut Microbial Communities
Although bacteria are continually acquired over the lifetime of an individual, the phylogenetic relationships of great ape… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Ape gestures and language evolution
The natural communication of apes may hold clues about language origins, especially because apes frequently gesture with limbs… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
The phylogeography of Y chromosome binary haplotypes and the origins of modern human populations
Although molecular genetic evidence continues to accumulate that is consistent with a recent common African ancestry of modern… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Early hominid evolution and ecological change through the African Plio-Pleistocene.
The habitats in which extinct hominids existed has been a key issue in addressing the origin and extinction of early hominids, as… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Recent African origin of modern humans revealed by complete sequences of hominoid mitochondrial DNAs.
We analyzed the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences of three humans (African, European, and Japanese), three African… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Constitutive fragile sites and cancer.
Breaks were observed at 51 sites in homologous chromosomes in lymphocytes from ten humans and two great apes when cells were… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Rapid duplication and loss of genes coding for the alpha chains of hemoglobin.
Rapid cycles of gene duplication and loss appear to have been going on in the region coding for the alpha chain of adult… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
MORPHOLOGICAL CEREBRAL ASYMMETRIES OF MODERN MAN, FOSSIL MAN, AND NONHUMAN PRIMATE
Cerebral asymmetries are common in modern and fossil man and the great apes. Those occurring most often are listed here: 1. The… 
Review
1974
Review
1974
Size and Scaling in Human Evolution
Our general conclusion is simply stated: many lineages display phyletic size increase; allometric changes almost always accompany… 
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
The Facial Displays of the Catarrhine Monkeys and Apes.
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