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Asia to Africa, or Vice Versa: New Clues to Primates’ Origins

SOURCE: NYT (11-1-10)

The ancestors of humans and other primates like apes and monkeys may have originated in Asia, not Africa, a new study in the journal Nature reports.

There has long been debate about the matter, but a recent discovery of anthropoid fossils including two previously unidentified species and one known species provides new clues....
Source: 
NYT
Source URL: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/science/02obanthropoids.html?hpw
Date: 
11-1-10