Will a Jurassic placental mammal make the molecular clock make sense?
A new paper in Nature by Zhe-Xi Luo and colleagues Luo:Jurassic:2011 reports the discovery of a 160-million-year-old early mammal, Juramaia, which they attri...
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Were there Cretaceous anthropoids? Part 2: What is an anthropoid?
This is the second post in a series, “Were there Cretaceous anthropoids?”
Were there Cretaceous anthropoids? Part 1. The problem in a nutshell
The evolution of early primates is a field that has developed rapidly in the last fifteen years. Many of the central issues were reviewed earlier this year b...