Big brains arose twice in higher primates
Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 07:42
in Paleontology & Archaeology
After taking a fresh look at an old fossil, John Flynn, Frick Curator of Palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History, and colleagues 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...
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