Primate Split

Via Science News:

… Discoverers of a partial apelike skull in western Saudi Arabia say that
it now appears that a poorly understood parting of major primate groups
occurred between 29 million and 24 million years ago. A 2004 analysis of
DNA from living apes and monkeys in Africa and Asia had estimated an
earlier divergence, between 34.5 and 29.2 million years ago…

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