ALAS poor Aegyptopithecus zeuxis! We knew you well.
Check out this story on The Australian:
THE brain of an ancestor of humans, apes and monkeys has been reconstructed for the first time, suggesting that the sophisticated mental capacity of modern primates evolved later than generally thought.
The discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved skull belonging to Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, which lived around 29 million years ago, has given scientists important insights into a critical phase in the evolution of humans and their closest animal relatives.
The fossilised skull of the small primate, which lived in Africa at a time before the evolutionary split between the Old World monkeys and the apes, is only the second to be found.
May 15th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
[...] Inside Science: Dissing our ancestor [...]
May 16th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
There is no evidence that humans came from apes. Evolution is just a theory of Charles Darwin we all know that. Humans have been humans ever since and monkey are monkey ever sice.
And why would scientists believe that
humans really came from apes. Where is the the big missing link?