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Dates: during 2009-2009
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...second reason the discovery is so important is its age. Ida - her scientific name is Darwinius masillae - dates to about 47 million years ago, when temperatures were warmer than they are today and when mammals underwent a burst of evolutionary diversification. In particular, that's when primates began splitting off into two branches. One became anthropoids, whose descendants are monkeys, apes and humans. The other turned into prosimians - lemurs and their kin. (See pictures of a bonobo eden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ida: Humankind's Earliest Ancestor! (Not Really) | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

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