African Origin Of Anthropoid Primates Called Into Question With New Fossil Discovery Date: September 17, 2009 Source: CNRS (Délégation Paris Michel-Ange) ...

When viewed within the broader context of our evolutionary history, we are anthropoid primates. That’s the group which contains monkeys and apes (with our species being a specialized variety of ...

Pondaung anthropoid primate sites represent the oldest anthropoid community identified so far from any region of the world. No other in-situ fossil sites have yielded such a diversified anthropoid ...

Late Middle Eocene primate from Myanmar and the initial anthropoid colonization of Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , June 4, 2012 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200644109 Cite This Page : ...

The origin of anthropoid primates, the group to which monkeys and apes belong, has long been a controversial topic among paleontologists. The past forty years, especially, have been marked by ...

An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new fossil primate from Myanmar that illuminates a critical step in the evolution of early anthropoids. Afrasia closely ...

A team based at the University of Kansas last week published a description of a previously unknown anthropoid primate -- a forerunner of today's monkeys, apes and humans -- in the Journal of Human ...

Ganlea and its closest relatives belong to an extinct family of Asian anthropoid primates known as the Amphipithecidae. Two other amphipithecids, Pondaungia and Myanmarpithecus, were previously ...

Higher primates include anthropoids — monkeys, apes, humans and their fossil ancestors. The ancient, lemur-like Afradapis turned up in a part of Egypt’s Fayum desert that has already yielded ...

The ancestors of humans and other primates like apes and monkeys may have originated in Asia, not Africa, a new study in the journal Nature reports. There has long been debate about the matter ...

Now, a new study analyzing 500 of their seed-sized finger and toe bones, a team of American and Chinese scientists reveal that the ancient anthropoids were precursors to modern primates ...