PITTSBURGH, June 5 (UPI) -- The world's oldest known fossil primate skeleton, a previously unknown genus, was unearthed from an ancient lakebed in central China, paleontologists say.
The journal Nature reports the new fossil provides insights into a pivotal event in primate and human evolution, the evolutionary divergence between the lineage leading to modern monkeys, apes and humans on the one hand and that leading to living tarsiers on the other.