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SCIENCE
Volume 310, Issue 5746, Pages 300-304Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1116569
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Early anthropoid evolution in Afro-Arabia is poorly documented, with only a few isolated teeth known from before similar to 35 million years ago. Here we describe craniodental remains of the primitive anthropoid Biretia from similar to 37-million-year-old rocks in Egypt. Biretia is unique among early anthropoids in exhibiting evidence for nocturnality, but derived dental features shared with younger parapithecids draw this genus, and possibly >45-million-year-old Algeripithecus, into a morphologically and behaviorally diverse parapithecoid clade of great antiquity.
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