Definitions
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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thesubfamilia Ponginae — anape that existed from roughly one million years to as recently as three-hundred thousand years ago, in what is now China, India, and Vietnam.
Etymologies
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Molar enamel thickness and dentine horn height in Gigantopithecus blacki
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Assessing mandibular shape variation within Gigantopithecus using a geometric morphometric approach
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The extinct great ape Gigantopithecus blacki from the middle Pleistocene of China and Vietnam is known only from dental and mandibular remains, and its dietary specializations remain contentious.
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Absolutely thick molar enamel is consistent with large body size estimates and dietary inferences about Gigantopithecus blacki, which focus on tough or fibrous vegetation.
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Here are a few abstracts to somewhat recent papers pertaining to Gigantopithecus (of interest to some in cryptozoology):
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Comparative observations on the tooth root morphology of Gigantopithecus blacki
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Absolute dating also yields an extended time range for Gigantopithecus blacki of 1200 to 310 ka.
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Gigantopithecus blacki dentine horns are relatively short, similar to (but shorter than) those of Pongo, which in turn are shorter than those of humans and African apes.
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Gigantopithecus blacki molar enamel (and to a lesser extent, that of Pongo pygmaeus) is distributed relatively evenly across the occlusal surface compared with the more complex distribution of enamel thickness in Homo sapiens.
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Gigantopithecus has the thickest enamel of any fossil or extant primate in terms of absolute thickness.
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