Early Primates May Have Feasted on Soft, Sweet Fruits An analysis of more than 400 fossilized teeth suggests the creatures weren’t eating many seeds, nuts or other hard foods ...

Beard said the age of both fossils was the evidence he needed to challenge contentions that anthropoid primates had evolved in Africa, where Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old fossil, was discovered in ...

Several of the anthropoid primates from the site may represent either the direct ancestors of all (or some) living anthropoids. Or they were close relatives of this common ancestor.

Organisation trumps size in primate brain evolution (Phys.org) —The evolution of anthropoid primates, including monkeys, apes and humans, over the past 40 million years was largely driven by ...

An analysis of 37 million year old primate fossils is fueling a debate over the existence of an evolutionary link between lemur-like and monkey-like primates -- a link that could more fully explain ...

Turns out our love of sweet food goes back – way back – to our early primate ancestors, a University of Otago-led study has found.

The Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) functioned as a critical filtering episode during the evolutionary history of primates. Comparing the composition of the early Oligocene primate faunas from ...

Hitherto, no specimen of anthropoid primates had been discovered in America.” Within a few years the novel classification was proved to be a mistake; it was retracted in 1927. Artificial Rain ...

In recent years, paleontologists have feuded over the origins—long assumed to be African—of our very distant ancestors, the anthropoid primates. Fossil expert Beard presents his controversial ...

Among extant anthropoid primates, the relatively smallest male canines are known in species that are socially characterized by relatively tolerant male-male relationships and male-female codominance, ...