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Duke researchers name two new species of fossil primates
Former BAA graduate student Erik Seiffert, working with Duke paleoanthropologists Elwyn Simons and Prithijit Chatrath, as well as other researchers, described two new speices of fossil primate in the October 14 issue of Science.They said their findings firmly establish that the common ancestor of living anthropoids -- including monkeys, apes and humans -- arose in Africa and that the group had already begun branching into many species before 37 million years ago.
View the Duke press release, and an article in National Geographic Science News.