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one toward living tarsiers large-eyed night-dwelling small primates and anthropoids the monkeys apes and humans
and anthropoids were quite small. These two branches anthropoids and tarsiers have been thought to be linked evolutionarily for some time
and now scientists are starting to understand the age of that split. Beyond its addition to our understanding of evolution the ancient primate is also unique in its physique.
Anthropoids have designed feet specially for grasping though humans are a bit of a special case given our unique disposition of walking bipedally.
I was convinced this thing was going to be a very primitive anthropoid Beard says. Here's an animal that combines features that we've just never seen before in one fossil primate.
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