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Dryopithecus

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Dryopithecus, an extinct genus of Anthropoid Apes from the Miocene of France. They were as large as gorillas; probably arboreal and frugivorous in habit, and, according to M. Lartet, their dentition was more man-like than that of any living Anthropoid.

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