Big brains arose twice in higher primates
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 11:42
in Paleontology & Archaeology
After taking a fresh look at an old fossil, researchers have determined that the brains of the ancestors of modern Neotropical primates were as small as those of their early fossil simian counterparts in the Old World. read more
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