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One incredible ocean crossing may have made human evolution possible

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par Nicholas R. Longrich, Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology and Paleontology, University of Bath

Humans evolved in Africa, along with chimpanzees, gorillas and monkeys. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere – likely in Asia – before colonising Africa. At the time, around 50 million years ago, Africa was an island isolated from the rest of the world by ocean – so how did primates get there?

A land bridge is the obvious explanation, but the geological evidence…

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