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Tiny primate fossils rewrite primate family tree in China
Anthropologists report two species of thumb sized primates and bones from a limestone mine in eastern China dating to about 45 million years ago. The fossils include feet and ankles supporting a claim that the tiny primates lived with Eosimias centennicus and may illuminate early splits among lemurs, monkeys, and humans.
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Richard Stucky
Denver Museum of Natural History
China
Journal of Human Evolution
Nature
Eosimias Centennicus
Eosimias
Chris Beard
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Washington
Beard