Saturday, 23. November 2002
Topic: - on November 23, 2002 at 1:49:29 AM CET
Report: Ability to grasp came first
A 56-million-year-old skeleton found in Wyoming shows that one of the earliest primate ancestors had an opposable big toe, allowing it to creep to the outermost branches of trees to hunt nuts and fruit. It also probably kept a sharp eye out to avoid becoming someone else's meal.
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