Higher Primates May Have Asian Root

The discovery of 40-million-year-old fossil-jaw fragments and teeth adds to controversial evidence for the Asian origin of higher primates.

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K. Christopher Beard
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Section of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080

Jean-Jacques Jaeger
Université Montpellier-II
Institut des Science de l’Evolution
Case 064
34095 Montpellier Cedex 5
France

Elwyn L. Simons
Duke University
Department of Bioanthropology/Anatomy
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Box 90385
Durham, NC 27708

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 16, October 16, 1999, p. 244. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.