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Monkeys originate in the Americas

From JTEM@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 6 11:58:57 2022

This is funny:

: our results show consistently that Platyrrhines split from Catarrhines
: at around 35 MYA

https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/20/10/1620/1164065?login=false

But then...

: Three new extinct monkeys that lived in what is now Peru
: approximately 36 million years ago have been discovered by a team
: of paleontologists

https://www.sci.news/paleontology/science-fossils-earliest-south-american-monkeys-peru-02486.html

So they weren't just in South America around 36 million years ago,
they were diversified!

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