(Phys.org) —A newly discovered type of anthropoid (precursor to monkeys, apes and humans) has been discovered in a coal mine in Thailand. A team of French anthropologists from Université de Poitiers ...

The ancestors of monkeys, apes and humans may have originated in Asia and not Africa as often thought, new fossils suggest. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

Pieces of ancient primates can still pack a surprising punch. Consider a 37-million-year-old lower jaw that still sports many of its teeth and was found in Africa by paleontologist Erik Seiffert of ...

A new discovery suggests that anthropoids -- the primate group including humans, apes and monkeys -- "colonized" Africa, rather than evolving in Africa as has been widely accepted. What is exceptional ...

The origin of anthropoids, the higher primates including monkeys, apes and humans, is a matter of debate. Fossil records calculate origins between the Palaeocene to the more recent Eocene epoch 54 ...

The ancestors of monkeys, apes and humans were thought primarily to have originated in Africa, but now what may be the oldest examples of such fossils discovered yet on the continent suggest these ...

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