Early in the Miocene, Africa's long isolation ended when it and Arabia came back into contact with Eurasia. That's when the ancestors of many mammals we think of as native to Africa arrived there.

to the living African apes (Lovejoy 2009). With the discoveries of the earliest hominin species discussed below, it is now possible to critically examine these assumptions. These earliest hominins ...

We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological time period known as the Miocene, just before our lineage diverged from that of chimpanzees and bonobos.

The Museum's fossil mammal collection contains an estimated 250,000 ... large collections from the Miocene and Pleistocene of East Africa and major holdings of Oligocene material from the Fayum of ...

These features distinguish Anadoluvius from other Miocene apes like Ankarapithecus ... Fossil evidence indicates that many mammals moved between Europe and Africa during this period, suggesting ...

Wilson (1938-1946), and Harold Koerner (1946-1971), who helped expand the collection of Cenozoic mammals ... collection internationally, adding Miocene faunas from Tunisia and late Pliocene fossils ...

If Böhme’s group is correct, Hammerschmiede represents the first locale outside Africa to have hosted two Miocene great ape species at the same time. The Miocene Epoch extended from about 23 ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa ... mammals over the last 10 million years. Despite the abundance of fossils from the Middle and Late ...