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Re: OLDEST HOMINID FOSSIL/NEWEST FIND
Ralph L Holloway (rlh2@columbia.edu)
Wed, 5 Jul 1995 11:08:32 -0400
It's call Catopithecus, comes from the Fayum, is one of Elwyn Simons'
finds, and there is a small blurb on it in a recent issue of SCIENCE,
within the last two weeks. It is not a hominid at all, but a stem primate
that may have given rise to a primate line that would have led evetually
to pongids, from which a hominid would split around 4-8 million years ago.
R. Holloway.
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