Monday, August 07, 2006

Ancient Global Warming Spurred Primates Into North America, Fossils Show

Richard A. Lovett
for National Geographic News

August 2, 2006
An ancient period of global warming spurred the world's first primates to spread from Asia to North America, new research shows.

The animals may have taken as little as 20,000 years to disperse across the Northern Hemisphere from the moment they first appeared.

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