Africa, on the other hand, seems to be where the apes originated, before the beginning of the Miocene. Africa witnessed a great flowering of ape life in the early Miocene, in the form of proconsulids (several species of the early ape genus Proconsul) and others such as Afropithecus and Kenyapithecus. Our closest living relatives today, and all our post-Miocene fossils, are African.
