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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hollingham, Richard

Titel

Out of Asia

Ist Teil von

• New scientist (1971), 2004-05, Vol.182 (2448), p.36-39

Ort / Verlag

London: New Scientist

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Hollingham investigates the two scientific heresies committed by paleontologist Chris Beard in his discovery of a lifetime. He says that these claims could hardly be further from the orthodox view, which is at the higher primer evolved in Africa about 35 million years ago, diversified in Africa, and did not spread out in Asia until 10 million years later. He speculates that if Beard's scenario is right, the higher primate lineage owes its amazing evolutionary journey to the fact that primitive simian dropped, purely by chance, into the unoccupied verdant paradise of Africa.