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David Pilbeam
American anthropologist
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theory of Ramapithecus
- In Ramapithecus
…his student English-born American anthropologist David Pilbeam and soon gained wide acceptance among anthropologists. The age of the fossils (about 14 million years) fit well with the then-prevailing notion that the ape-human split had occurred at least 15 million years ago. The first challenge to the theory came in the…
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