We share an ancestor with lemurs, but we don鈥檛 know what it was Joel Sartore/National Geographic
Our distant primate ancestors are聽thought to have arisen in Asia, but new evidence challenges this assumption, suggesting primates may instead have evolved in Europe or North America.
Primates include all lemurs, monkeys, apes and humans. The oldest confirmed primate fossils are about 56 million years old, so were formed 10聽million years after the extinction that wiped out all dinosaurs except birds. This time is called the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum because the average global temperature rose by 5掳C or more in…
