Fossil muzzles and other puzzles

Meike Köhler and Salvador Moyà-Solà
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Meike Köhler: Institut de Paleontología M.Crusafont
Salvador Moyà-Solà: Institut de Paleontología M.Crusafont

Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6640, 327-328

Abstract: Some time between the late Oligocene and early Miocene, 28-22 million years ago, the initial evolutionary radiation which led to the living Old World primates took place. The discovery of the oldest known Old World monkey skull, which is some 15 million years old, provides further fuel for debate about this event, which eventually resulted in the evolution of Old World monkeys on the one hand, and the great and lesser apes, and humans, on the other.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/40973

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