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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Dryopithecus

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8173681911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 8 — Dryopithecus

DRYOPITHECUS (Gr. δρῦς, oak, πίθηκος, ape, “the ape of the oak-woods”), the name of an extinct ape or monkey from Miocene deposits of France, believed to be allied to the baboons, but perhaps with some affinity to the higher apes.