Thursday, May 16, 2013

Tanzania Fossils May Pinpoint Critical Split Between Apes and Monkeys

This is very interesting - I just finished reading The Link by Colin Tudge, et al (You can get it here [amazon.com]. I definitely recommend reading it if you are even vaguely interested in paleontology). In it, they discuss Ida, a specimen found in Germany's Messel pit, which is believed to be closely related to the first common ancestor between anthropoids (Old & New World apes, hominids) and other simians (lemurs, tarsiers, etc). If the claim made in the article is true, the discovered species would be contemporary with our ancestor living after Ida but before hominids separated from apes. A really great find! I wonder what a comparison between Ida and this new species will reveal. Mind you, that may never happen, since Ida is a very complete fossil and all they found here were teeth and fragments.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/dn_rwAIETHg/story01.htm

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