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1. Siwalik specimens once assigned to the genus " Ramapithecus " are now considered by most researchers to belong to one or more species of " Sivapithecus " . " Ramapithecus " is no longer regarded as a likely ancestor of humans.
2. Siwalik specimens once assigned to the genus " Ramapithecus " are now considered by most researchers to belong to one or more species of " Sivapithecus " . " Ramapithecus " is no longer regarded as a likely ancestor of humans.
3. It was originally thought to represent two distinct species, " Sivapithecus yunnanensis ", thought to be an ancestor of " Pongo " ( orangutans ), and " Ramapithecus lufengensis ", thought to be an early human ancestor.
4. Previously, the divergence between humans and other living hominoids was thought to have occurred 15 to 20 million years ago, and several species of that time period, such as " Ramapithecus ", were once thought to be hominins and possible ancestors of humans.
5. The recognition in the 1980s that " " Ramapithecus " " fossils were females of " Sivapithecus " led to the creation of the new genus and species " Lufengpithecus lufengensis " to accommodate the large collection of hominoid fossils recovered at Lufeng in the 1970s.