April 29, 2021 11.12am EDT
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- Nicholas R. LongrichSenior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology and Paleontology, University of Bath
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Humans evolved in Africa, along with chimpanzees, gorillas and monkeys. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere –likely in Asia– before colonising Africa. At the time, around 50 million years ago, Africa was an island isolated from the rest of the world by…
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