Knuckle-walking is one of several types of quadrupedalism and its importance comes to light in a corpus of paleoanthropological texts in which it is theorised that Pan and Homo, which alongside Gorilla are thought to form the three principal African lineages thought to have diverged in the late Miocene, share a Human-Chimpanzee Last Common Ancestor (HC-LCA) not shared by any other taxon.
The part in bold feels really awkward to me.
How can I rearrange this so it's easier to read?
anonymous The part in bold feels really awkward to me. " I loved "alongside Gorilla", but that made it so that "which" was only two things. They don't really form anything, too.
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anonymousThe part in bold feels really awkward to me.
You could drop one "thought to": "which with Gorilla comprise the three principal African lineages thought to have diverged in the late Miocene, …."
I loved "alongside Gorilla", but that made it so that "which" was only two things. They don't really form anything, too.
Your use of italics is