Posted: Oct 18, 2016 5:22 pm
by Wortfish
Oldskeptic wrote:
After the split from chimps and gorillas the ancestors the orangutans spread to Asia where their evolution continued. One thing to remember is that orangutans are not only separated from chimps, gorillas, and humans by great distance but also by a greater amount of time, 14 million years.


OK. But there are no pongin specimens in Africa. There are some in Turkey, India/Pakistan and Thailand, as well as their home in Indonesia/Malaysia.