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Word: prosimians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...foot bones uncovered in central China beginning in 1995. Painstakingly analyzing their find under a microscope, Daniel Gebo of Northern Illinois University and his colleagues identified features common to both anthropoids and their more primitive forebears. "There's always been a big hole between the earliest fossil anthropoids and prosimians," says Gebo. "The fossils were either true anthropoid or true prosimian; we've never found anything in between until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linking Man To a Monkey | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

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