47-Million-year-old Fossil Could Shed Light on Primate Family Tree
Friday, May 22, 2009 - 11:35
in Biology & Nature
A 47-million-year-old primate fossil, a purported "missing link" between primates and humans, was unveiled this week in New York. The fossil, formally called Darwinius masillae but nicknamed Ida, could, due to it being an essentially whole skeleton, shed light on the construction of the primate family tree, says an expert on primate evolution at Washington University in St. Louis.
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