STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER CONFIRMS FIRST CRANIAL SPECIMEN OF EXTINCT TARSIER

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | March 13, 2006 | Copyright

The State University of New York at Stony Brook issued the following news release:

A Stony Brook University researcher and his colleagues have identified the first cranial specimen of an extinct tarsier from a 45 million-year-old site in China, a discovery that unlocks one of the mysteries of primate evolution. The discovery, reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, indicates that living tarsiers look virtually the same as their distant ancestors, in contrast to the dramatic changes undergone by most other primate lineages, such as humans, over a much shorter ...

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