SETI public: Big Brains Arose Twice In Higher Primates

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From: Ronald C. Blue (ron_at_u2ai.us)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2008 - 18:55:07 PDT

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    So my not on another planet?
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    Big Brains Arose Twice In Higher Primates
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080709110839.htm
    ScienceDaily (July 9, 2008) - After taking a fresh look at an old fossil,
    John Flynn, Frick Curator of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural
    History, and colleagues determined that the brains of the ancestors of
    modern Neotropical primates were as small as those of their early fossil
    simian counterparts in the Old World. This means one of the hallmarks of
    primate biology, increased brain size, arose independently in isolated
    groups--the platyrrhines of the Americas and the catarrhines of Africa and
    Eurasia.

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