For tiny primates, climbing trees is a walk in the park
Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 16:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Smaller primates expend no more energy climbing trees than they do walking, a finding that might help explain how some of the earliest ancestors to humans and apes took to the trees, scientists said.
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