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A 13 - million - year - former skull of an extinct imitator was observe at a website called Napudet ( shown here ) , west of Lake Turkana in Kenya in 2014 . Now , the hierarch skull is revealing what the last common ancestor of all living copycat and humanity may have count like . Apperently , this prelate dubbed " Alesi " would have resembled a child gibbon . [ Read the full story on Alesi ]
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The battlefield bunch of the Turkana Basin Institute is shown here when Alesi was discovered at Napudet in September 2014 . From Left to right : Abdala Ekuon , John Ekusi , Isaiah Nengo , Bernard Ewoi , Akai Ekes , and Cyprian Nyete .
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Cyprian Nyete ( allow ) and Isaiah Nengo ( right ) dig Alesi , using all right picks and thicket , as well as a hardener to protect the fogey pearl .
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Alesi is shown partially excavated after careful removal of loose sand and rocks with dental pick and brushes . The primate would have been just 16 month old when it decease .
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Akai Ekes and John Ekusi watch as Isaiah Nengo purloin the sandstone block with Alesi , after six hours of digging .
Alesi ’s lemon - sizing skull , present after attach sandstone rock was part polish off , still had the roots of baby tooth .
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From Alesi ’s dentition , the researchers conclude that the high priest would have been a fruit feeder . The research worker could n’t tell if Alesi was virile or female , since the primate was too new for sex - tie in skull features to have shape , the researchers say .
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As an grownup , the archpriest would have matter about 24.9 lbs . ( 11.3 kilograms ) , with a brainpower about as big as that of a modern lemur of the same size of it , the researchers said .
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The researcher run down Alesi with a high - resolution cristal - ray of light setup at the European Synchrotron Radiation installation . The skull was mount on a rotating platform in front of the detector , and a laser ray is used for precise alignment .
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Map of Africa and Kenya , showing the placement of Napudet , where Alesi was found . [ Read the full story on Alesi ]
