The " Apidium " species were well adapted to life in what once were the tropical forests of North Africa.
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"Apidium " and its fellow members of the Parapithecidae family are stem anthropoids that possess all the hallmarks of modern Anthropoidea.
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Fossils of the earlier species, " Apidium moustafai ", are rare; fossils of the later species " Apidium phiomense " are fairly common.
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Fossils of the earlier species, " Apidium moustafai ", are rare; fossils of the later species " Apidium phiomense " are fairly common.
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Male " Apidium " were bigger than the females, which, by comparing them with living primates, suggests that they probably lived in groups, where a small number of males would have had control over several females.