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1 posted on 11/06/2008 4:10:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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Ancient Anthropoid Origins Discovered In Africa
Duke University | 13 October 2005 | News office staff
Posted on 10/14/2005 3:27:55 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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Little teeth suggest big jump in primate timeline
PhysOrg | Monday, August 4, 2008 | Duke University
Posted on 08/07/2008 10:27:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 11/06/2008 4:14:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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Tiny Fossil Animal
May Link Lower Primates
With Humans

by John Noble Wilford
March 16, 2000
Fossil bones of an animal no bigger than a shrew and weighing less than an ounce have been identified as belonging to the earliest known relative in the primate lineage that led to monkeys, apes and humans. The wee animal lived 45 million years ago in a humid rain forest in what is now China... The paleontologists who announced the discovery yesterday said the fossil animals, named Eosimias for "dawn monkey," were the best evidence yet for fixing the time and place of one of the more fateful branchings in evolution. Eosimias appeared to be a transitional figure when lower primates, known as prosimians, went their separate way, developing into today's lemurs, lorises, bush babies and tarsiers, while the diverging higher primates, anthropoids, evolved into more prepossessing creatures, eventually including human beings... scatterings of fossils point to the earliest primates of any kind appearing about 55 million years ago, mainly in Asia. But when the two lines of primates diverged had seemed to be lost in the wide gaps in the fossil record... This was further evidence that, although the more immediate human forebears arose in Africa, their earliest primate ancestors appeared to come from Asia. Somehow primates then migrated to Africa. Dr. MacPhee said the Euroasian origin of primates was now generally accepted by scientists, "thanks in part to Beard's work," but "why that should be is itself controversial now."
The Scars of Evolution:
What Our Bodies Tell Us
About Human Origins

by Elaine Morgan
"The most remarkable aspect of Todaro's discovery emerged when he examined Homo Sapiens for the 'baboon marker'. It was not there... Todaro drew one firm conclusion. 'The ancestors of man did not develop in a geographical area where they would have been in contact with the baboon. I would argue that the data we are presenting imply a non-African origin of man millions of years ago.'"
Ape culture hints at earlier evolution
BBC News Online
The complex behaviour of orangutans suggests human culture started to develop 14 million years ago, much earlier than thought. At this time the ancestors of chimps and orangutans diverged... Professor Van Schaik warned though that political unrest and habitat destruction could prevent further studies.

3 posted on 11/06/2008 4:18:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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5 posted on 11/06/2008 4:19:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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To: SunkenCiv
This was before Gilley’s closed .
6 posted on 11/06/2008 4:22:40 PM PST by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know F/8 Cav)
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from ScienceDaily's version of the story:
Chris Kirk and Blythe Williams have discovered Diablomomys dalquesti, a new genus and species of primate that dates to 44-43 million years ago when tropical forests and active volcanoes covered west Texas. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Texas at Austin)
New Fossil Reveals Primates Lingered In Texas

7 posted on 11/06/2008 4:22:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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To: SunkenCiv

I would say primates still linger at UT, but that would insult primates.


9 posted on 11/06/2008 4:33:00 PM PST by itsthejourney (mtbopfuyn has risen from the ashes)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s happening again. This time they’re Californians and assorted Yankees.


14 posted on 03/08/2012 1:13:51 PM PST by wolfcreek (‘closed eye’ mentality is the reason for our current reality)
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