Editing Sivapithecus (section)

==Description==
''Sivapithecus'' was about {{convert|1.5|m|ft|0}} in body length, similar in size to a modern orangutan. In most respects, it would have resembled a chimpanzee, but its face was closer to that of an orangutan. The shape of its wrists and general body proportions suggest that it spent a significant amount of its time on the ground, as well as in trees.<ref name=EoDP>{{harvnb|Palmer|1999| pp=292–3}}</ref> It had large [[canine teeth]], and heavy [[molar (tooth)|molar]]s, suggesting a diet of relatively tough food, such as seeds and [[savannah]] grasses.<ref name=EoDP/>

Similarities to orangutans in what are chiefly jaw and partial skull fossils are a concave face with large [[zygomatic arch]] bones, narrow setting of eyes from each other, smoothness of nasal floor, and central incisor enlargement.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sivapithecus |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sivapithecus |website=Britannica |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref><ref name=EoDP/> However Sivapithecus' "dental characteristics and postcranial skeleton do not confirm this phylogenetic position" say Yaowalak Chaimanee of the Paleontology section of Thailand's [[Department of Mineral Resources (Thailand)|Department of Mineral Resources]] and colleagues, while reporting a find in 2003, so neat affinities are not the state of finding to date.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chaimanee |first1=Yaowalak |title=A Middle Miocene hominoid from Thailand and orangutan origins |url=https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01449 |journal=Nature |year=2003 |volume=422 |issue=6927 |pages=61–65 |doi=10.1038/nature01449 |pmid=12621432 |bibcode=2003Natur.422...61C |s2cid=4422882 |access-date=30 December 2022|url-access=subscription }}</ref>