Fossils hint at Asian origin for higher primates

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 18:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The ancestors of monkeys, apes and humans were thought primarily to have originated in Africa, but now what may be the oldest examples of such fossils discovered yet on the continent suggest these primates might have originally arisen in Asia, researchers suggest.

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