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Scientists said the primates remains sheds fresh light on evolution.

Anthropologists have long thought that our ape ancestors evolved an upright torso in order to pick fruit in forests, but new research from the University of Michigan suggests a life in open woodlands and a diet that included leaves drove apes' upright stature.

The research, more than a decade in the making, pushes back the time frame when apes increased in size and became upright in equatorial Africa to 21 million years ago.

Stony Brook professor part of international paleontology collaboration re-assessing an ancient ape fossil

"Putting together the locomotion, the diet, and the environment, we basically discovered a new model for ape origins."

Minneapolis MN (SPX) Apr 16, 2023 - The story of human evolution has long been a tale of a forested Africa that gradually became drier, giving rise to open grasslands and causing our forest-loving ape ancestors to abandon the trees an

Evidence of an early savannah grass growing millions of years earlier than previously known may fundamentally change the understanding of life in the prehistoric world. A pair of studies funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the journal Science document the earliest evidence for locally abundant open-habitat grasses in eastern Africa and how those environments likely influenced early ape evolution.

Scientists said the primates remains sheds fresh light on evolution.

Next year’s U.S. Senate race in Ohio is shaping up to be a brutally expensive fight, if early financial numbers released Friday are any indication.