Primate of the family Pongidae, closely related to humans, including gibbon, orang-utan, chimpanzee, and gorilla.
The earliest known ape is believed by US researchers to have lived 20 million yeas ago in Uganda. Morotopithecus was about the size of a modern chimpanzee.
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