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To: Brumar89 who wrote (44256)3/7/2014 10:07:17 PM
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Australopithecus was an ancestor of apes AND humans

Australopithecus was around about 3-5 million years ago, and the various ape lines (except for chimps) were separating about 7-10 million years ago.

The real point though is that these species events were not clean breaks. The various ape creatures still lived in the same part of the same continent as each other and the species continued to mate occasionally for long periods of times (perhaps a million years).