Page "Henry Fairfield Osborn" Paragraph 7

While believing in common ancestry between man and ape, Osborn denied that this ancestor was ape-like.

The common ancestor between man and ape Osborn always maintained was more Human than ape.

Writing to Arthur Keith in 1927, he remarked "... when our Oligocene ancestor is found it will not be an ape, but it will be surprisingly pro-human ".

His student William K. Gregory called Osborn's idiosyncratic view on man's origins as a form of " Parallel Evolution " but many creationists misinterpreted Osborn, greatly frustrating him, and believed he was asserting man had never evolved from a lower life form.