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40 Million Year Old Primate Fossils Found In Asia

sosaited writes "It has been widely believed that our ancestors originated out of Africa, but a paper published in Nature by Carnegie Museum of Natural History scientists puts this in doubt. The paper is based on the fossils of four primate species found in Asia which are 40 million years old, during which period Africa was thought to not have these species. The diversity and timing of the new anthropoids raises two scenarios. Anthropoids might simply have emerged in Africa much earlier than thought, and gone undiscovered by modern paleontologists. Or they could have crossed over from Asia, where evidence suggests that anthropoids lived 55 million years ago, flourishing and diversifying in the wide-open ecological niches of an anthropoid-free Africa."

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  1. Atlantis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They were Atlanteans/aliens from outerspace.

  2. Travelling Wilberries by BrightSpark · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course your African primates are non-migratory you see...

  3. Re:Not found in Asia by biryokumaru · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rule of thumb: Coffee first, attempts to form coherent sentences second.

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  4. Monolith by skywatcher2501 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does TFA mention traces of tall dark monoliths nearby? We might need to take a closer look at the magnetic field of the Moon :D

  5. Re:But did they have the liberal gene? by sumdumass · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stop attempting to insinuate that liberals are genetic mutants.