For primate evolution, that chapter begins roughly 65 million years ago, continues through to today, and will end at an unknown time in the future. Fossil remains reveal the paleobiology of the ...

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"This is the grand pattern of evolution that we see in the fossil record of North American primates. The first primates came to North America about 56 million years ago at the beginning of the ...

(Few fossils of such primates are available because they lived primarily in forests, which are not conducive to preservation of bone.) The finds “are turning evolution on its head,” Lovejoy said.

NEW YORK — A 47 million-year-old primate fossil that is so complete scientists can even tell what its last meal was promises to shed new light on the earliest stages of evolution of the lineage ...

The complex unfolding of human evolution over the past 7 million ... and monkeys from both the Old World and New World. Primates first appeared in the fossil record nearly 55 million years ago ...

Reconstructing its environmental evolution may offer some insights for regional climate change today. Among the most important finds are fossils of primate species found nowhere else. These are ...

A newly discovered fossil has helped to fill a long-elusive gap in the evolution of primates. Researchers identified remains as belonging to an early gibbon species, which roamed the forests of ...

Having brushed up against anatomists working on fossil human ancestors while ... that a “tolerably complete story” of primate evolution could “yet be wrest from our rocks.” ...