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'researchers have discovered a fossilized face and jaw from a previously unknown hominoid primate genus in spain dating to the middle miocene era, roughly 12 million years ago. nicknamed "lluc," the male bears a strikingly "modern" facial appearance with a flat face, rather than a protruding one. the finding sheds important new light on the evolutionary development of hominids, including orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and humans.'
