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Eosimias, which lived 45 million years ago, made news last week when paleontologists disclosed new fossil evidence placing the little animal at a critical juncture in the history of life. According to their report in Nature, it was the species that directly followed a significant branching of the evolutionary tree. One limb led to the prosimians, or lower primates, such as lemurs and bush babies, and the other to the anthropoids, or higher primates, such as monkeys, apes and humans. Eosimias may be the first species on the anthropoid branch of the tree...
...acknowledges, however, that it will take more than a few foot bones to establish Eosimias as the common ancestor of monkeys, apes and man. Some experts, in fact, say that Eosimias is probably closer to the tarsiers, which split off earlier from the monkey-to-human branch. "So far, we don't have the smoking gun," argues anthropologist Eric Delson of the City University of New York's Lehman College. He would be convinced, he says, by a full skull showing fused eye sockets and forehead. (By contrast, lemurs have gaps in both places...
...addition, fellowship funding will now come out of one Radcliffe fund, as opposed to having each branch fund its own fellows...
...with $10 million gleaned from an anonymous investor and the company's 15-member management team, many of whom Cheng had known from nearly two decades in the technology industry. By 1997, Timeless had acquired two local systems-integration companies, and by 1998 it had opened its first China branch in Guangzhou and set up a joint venture in the special economic zone of Zhuhai...
...With eight we stick even closer to these eight and do not branch out to as many people," she said...