Excavation and Analysis of Middle Miocene Primates and Associated Fauna at Maboko Island, Kenya

对维多利亚湖岛屿的持续挖掘的目的是重建旧大陆猴子和猿的进化分化。它将包括在具有高度生产力的灵长类动物化石区域附近的沉积物的挖掘。自1987年以来，该地区已经产生了许多重要的发现，包括两个新的丛林婴儿物种，一个完整的、未变形的旧大陆猿猴祖先维多利亚猿的头骨，以及肯尼亚猿的颅后遗骸，这表明它是化石记录中最早的半地球祖先类人。项目这一阶段的主要重点还将放在对这个令人难以置信的生产力遗址发现的6000多块化石的描述、系统发育和功能解释上。

The goal of this continued excavation of an island in Lake Victoria is to reconstruct the evolutionary divergence of Old World monkeys and apes. It will include excavations of sediments adjacent to highly productive productive primate fossil-bearing areas. Since 1987, the locality has produced many important finds including two new species of bushbabies, a compoete and undistorted skull fo the ancestral Old World monkey Victoriapithecus, and postcranial remains of Kenyapithecus which demonstrate that it is the earliest semiterrestrial ancestral hominoid in the fossil record. A major emphasis of this phase of the project will also be placed on publishing descriptions as well as phylogenetic and functional interpretations of the more than 6,000 fossil finds from this incredibly productive site.