[Taxacom] New World monkeys rafting from Africa

[Kenneth Kinman]

Dear All,

     As I recall, John Grehan also argued with me a long ago on taxacom about the ancestor of New World monkeys rafting across the Atlantic from Africa.  Well, even more evidence for that rafting scenario came from a fossil monkey named in 2014, Perupithecus.

      Here are weblinks to the abstract of the paper naming that fossil, and a BBC article based on that fossil (entitled "The monkeys that sailed across the Atlantic to South America"):

      https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14120


      http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160126-the-monkeys-that-sailed-across-the-atlantic-to-south-america

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BBC - Earth - The monkeys that sailed across the Atlantic ...<http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160126-the-monkeys-that-sailed-across-the-atlantic-to-south-america>
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Monkeys suddenly appeared in South America about 40 million years ago. Unlikely though it may seem, they probably sailed there from Africa