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It should be little surprise to biological anthropologists that the pioneering refractory experimentalism of 19th century anatomy spurred Huxley and later Darwin to conclude that the Homininae clade, which comprises the three African hominin lineages, Pan, Homo, and Gorilla, thought to have diverged in the late Miocene, are the closest living relatives of modern H. sapiens.

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It should be little surprise to biological anthropologists that the pioneering refractory experimentalism of 19th century anatomy spurred Huxley and later Darwin to conclude that the Homininae clade, ( which comprises the three African hominin lineages, Pan, ****, and Gorilla ) thought to have diverged in the late Miocene, are the closest living relatives of modern H. sapiens. Is the above sentence grammatically correct?

  • It should be little surprise to biological anthropologists that the pioneering refractory experimentalism of 19th century anatomy spurred Huxley and later Darwin to conclude that the Homininae clade, ( which comprises the three African hominin lineages, Pan, ****, and Gorilla ) thought to have diverged in the late Miocene, are the closest living relatives of modern H.
  • sapiens.
  • Is the above sentence grammatically correct?
  • Yes, but I've added brackets to clarify that thought to have diverged in the late Miocene he refers to the Homininae clade'.
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It should be little surprise to biological anthropologists that the pioneering refractory experimentalism of 19th century anatomy spurred Huxley and later Darwin to conclude that the Homininae clade, ( which comprises the three African hominin lineages, Pan, ****, and Gorilla ) thought to have diverged in the late Miocene, are the closest living relatives of modern H. sapiens.


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