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  • From: Josh Greenman <josh.greenman AT gmail.com>
  • To: monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [monkeywire] Giant ape lived along-side humans
  • Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:27:03 -0500

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/giant_ape_lived_along-side_humans_9291
 
Giant ape lived along-side humans
 
A gigantic ape, measuring about 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,200 pounds, co-existed alongside humans, a geochronologist at McMaster University has discovered. Using a high-precision absolute-dating method (techniques involving electron spin resonance and uranium series), Jack Rink, associate professor of geography and earth sciences at McMaster, has determined that Gigantopithecus blackii, the largest primate that ever lived, roamed southeast Asia for nearly a million years before the species died out 100,000 years ago. This was known as the Pleistocene period, by which time humans had already existed for a million years....


  • [monkeywire] Giant ape lived along-side humans, Josh Greenman, 11/14/2005

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