The principal resemblances between pliopithecines and living hylobatids are found in the skull and dentition (Zapfe 1958).
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Hylobatid
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In the absence of an obvious cause, it must be considered unlikely that hylobatids and great apes (including fossil great apes) would have acquired all of these characters independently.
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However, in cercopithecoids and in hylobatids, the transverse processes are completely embedded in the septum.
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