The last ancestor that we shared with apes had its own set of traits, and was different from both us and modern apes.
In The Descent of Man,
Bottom-up - uses the fossil record of both humans and apes; it shows multiple possibilities both for what the LCA looked like, and where he roamed. In an attempt to reconcile these approaches to identifying our ancient ancestor, the scientists looked at what the environment must have been like for the Pan-Homo last common ancestor, or LCA.
The study concluded that future research efforts should focus on looking for Miocene ape fossils in areas where they have yet to be found. The scientists also concluded that data-driven modeling should take precedence over trying to fit evolutionary scenarios to every fossil find.
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