Paleontologists Discover Most Primitive Primate Skeleton.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-25 January 2007-YALE UNIVERSITY: Paleontologists Discover Most Primitive Primate Skeleton(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:23012007 New Haven, Conn. -- The origins and earliest branches of primate evolution are clearer and more ancient by 10 million years than previous studies estimated, according to a study featured on the cover of the Jan.

23 print edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper by researchers at Yale, the University of Winnipeg, Stony Brook University, and led by University of Florida paleontologist Jonathan Bloch reconstructs the base of the primate family tree by comparing skeletal and fossil specimens representing more than 85 modern and extinct species. The team also discovered two...