Proconsul
20
million years ago
Hang on,
we're zipping back through 800,000 generations of your line—a long
way down your family tree. Back then your primogenitor was more like a monkey
than a chimp, no offense.
Your
Ancestor's Profile Proconsul is the most primitive ape that is well-known from a fossil skeleton.
It lived in Africa about 20 million years ago. Like modern apes, it lacked a
tail, but it would have been monkeylike in behavior, moving around in the trees
on all four limbs. It weighed between 37 and 110 pounds. (There are different
species that weighed different amounts. The bigger ones would have approached a
modern chimp in size.)
