Posted: Oct 14, 2016 6:46 am
Wortfish wrote:I am a little stuck. If chimps, gorilllas and orangutans share a common ancestor where did it live?
The fossil record of primates is quite poor but my guess would be it lived in Africa.
And why are orangutans so far removed in physical distance from their evolutionary cousins in Africa?
I don't see the problem with this, they shared a common ancestor over 12 million years ago. Seems completely reasonable they can slowly migrate across the distances in that time?