Proconsul

proconsul Translingual Etymology mul la pro, before + Consul, name of a chimpanzee when the fossil was discovered. Proper noun 1 m genus family Proconsulidae a Miocene basal ape or basal catarrhine en mul Mindy Weisberger Why don’t humans have tails? Scientists find answers in an unlikely place w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/23/world/humans-tails-genetic-mutation-junk-dna-scn 2024-03-23 Fossils show that the ancient primate Proconsul africanus, shown in the illustration above, was a tailless tree-dweller. https://web.archive.org/web/20240327024056/https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/23/world/humans-tails-genetic-mutation-junk-dna-scn/ See also Proconsul (primate)