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Name the common ancestor of the great apes and man.

The common ancestor between humans and great apes existed in the Miocene era about 25 million years ago. It is thought to be Dryopithecus from which the great apes (gibbons, orang-utan, chimpanzee and gorilla) and humans differentiated or branched off.


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