[Taxacom] New World monkeys rafting from Africa

[John Grehan]

Ken,

If you are basing the monkey claim on "molecular clock estimates now date
the last common ancestor for New and Old World monkeys to a time about 100
million years after the continents had split apart. So that idea has gone
out the window." (one of the links you provided) then you are buying into
the misrepresentation of molecular dates for what they actually are -
minimums. This is why this is all fairly tales.

John Grehan

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 8:54 PM, Kenneth Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> [http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/live/624_351/
> images/live/p0/3g/m7/p03gm70h.jpg]<http://www.bbc.com/earth/
> story/20160126-the-monkeys-that-sailed-across-the-
> atlantic-to-south-america>
>
> 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>
> www.bbc.com
> Monkeys suddenly appeared in South America about 40 million years ago.
> Unlikely though it may seem, they probably sailed there from Africa
>
>
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