Archive for June 6th, 2012

Fossil Discovery: More Evidence for Asia, Not Africa, as the Source of Earliest Anthropoid Primates

An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of Afrasia djijidae, a new fossil primate from Myanmar that illuminates a critical step in the evolution of early anthropoids — the group that includes humans, apes, and monkeys. The 37-million-year-old Afrasia closely resembles another early anthropoid, Afrotarsius libycus, recently discovered at a site of similar age […]