Where did anthropoid primates come from? This question has not been an easy one to answer. Since the early days of paleontology various experts have proposed a slew of scenarios for the origins of ...

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

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 ...

A new fossil primate from Myanmar illuminates a critical step in the evolution of early anthropoids. Afrasia closely resembles another early anthropoid, Afrotarsius libycus. The close similarity ...

The recent discovery of fossils of two previously unknown anthropoid species in southern Libya adds to the debate about where primates’ ancestors arose.

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, the discovery of the fossil primate skeleton known as "Ida" from the Messel oil shale pit in Germany led some scientists to suggest that anthropoid primates evolved from lemur ...

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 ...

Evolution has favoured the modification and expansion of primate vision. Compared with other mammals, primates have, for example, greater depth perception from having forward-facing eyes with ...

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 ...