The Late Miocene (also known as Upper Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two faunal stage. The Tortonian and Messinian stages comprise the Late Miocene sub-epoch, which lasted from 11.63 Ma (million years ago) to 5.333 Ma.
The evolution of Homo
The
(family Hylobatidae) and
(genus
Pongo) were the first groups to split from the line leading to the
, including
, then
(genus
Gorilla), and finally
and
(genus
Pan). The splitting date between hominin and chimpanzee lineages is placed by some between 4 and 8 million years ago, that is, during the Late Miocene.
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