Complexity Digest 2004.47 - 02.04

22-Nov-2004

Not All Great Apes Were Swingers, New Scientist Bookmark and Share

Excerpts:
ierolapithecus catalaunicus lived during the Middle Miocene period, alongside a wide variety of now extinct mammal species (Image: Meike Kohler)
The oldest common ancestor of humans and other living great apes reveals that vertical climbing evolved separately from swinging