Science news articles about 'anthropoid primates'

... mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids, the primate lineage of today's monkeys, apes ... million years old and suggest these early primates were no larger than modern dwarf lemurs ...

... believe. A major focus of recent paleoanthropological research has been to establish the origin of anthropoid primates (monkeys, apes and humans) from earlier and more primitive primates known as ...

... the small primate Algeripithecus, which is 50 million years old and until now was considered as the most ancient African anthropoid, in fact belonged to another group, that of the crown strepsirhines.

... ) lends weight to the hypothesis that the common ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes (anthropoid primates) originated in Asia, and not in Africa. To support the hypothesis, an international team of ...

... might help to explain why female primates go out of their way to mate with as many males as possible." ... closely related to humans – we're both anthropoid primates – so our results support the idea ...