Are We Descended From Monkeys?
Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 17:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Today I gave my lecture on mammal diversity and evolution in the 4th year vertebrate course. We have been talking a fair bit about paraphyletic groups, common vs. scientific names, and so on. Within this context, we explored the issue of whether we're "descended from monkeys", by taking a look at a phylogeny of relevant primates: read more