Fossil sheds light on early primates
Partial skeleton near root of monkey, ape and human line
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The oldest known primate specimen, a 55-million-year-old partial skeleton of a 1-ounce creature, was analyzed using a digital 3-D reconstruction .
Paul Tafforeau/ESRF and X. Ni/Chinese Academy of Sciences