Fossil suggests apes, old world monkeys moved in opposite directions from shared ancestor

ScienceDaily
Nov 8, 2019, 5:16 pm173 pts
In terms of their body plan, Old World monkeys -- a group that includes primates like baboons and macaques -- are generally considered more similar to ancestral species than apes are. But a new study suggests that as far as locomotion goes, apes and Old World monkeys each evolved a way of moving that was…

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