... allows themtodecideononehandthat it was the progenitor of the chimpanzee, the go-rilla, and theorangutan, and yet onthe other hand wastheprogenitorofthehumanrace?(1995,p.223).In the end, ... Dryopithecus africanus.[Dryopithecus means “wood-land ape”; the creature also goes by the name Proconsul.] D.africanus, according to Leakey andLewin,was“theancestortoboth apes and humans,” and, ... apes, for by the time we find Dryopithecus in the fossils, accord-ing to the traditional picture, the line of Rama-pithecus and man has already split off and be-come distinct. That all theramapithecinefossilsareyounger...