Recent discoveries of older and phylogenetically more primitive basal anthropoids in China
and Myanmar, the eosimiiforms, support the hypothesis that Asia was the place of origins of …

According to the most recent discoveries from the Middle Eocene of Myanmar and China,
anthropoid primates originated in Asia rather than in Africa, as was previously considered …

The middle Eocene primate family Eosimiidae, which is known from sites in central and
eastern China, and Myanmar, is central to efforts to reconstruct the origin and early evolution …

Undisputed anthropoids appear in the fossil record of Africa and Asia by the middle Eocene,
about 45 Ma. Here, we report the discovery of an early Eocene eosimiid anthropoid primate …

Reconstructing the origin and early evolutionary history of anthropoid primates (monkeys,
apes, and humans) is a current focus of paleoprimatology. Although earlier hypotheses …

A new genus and species of anthropoid primate, Bahinia pondaungensis gen. et sp. nov., is
described from the Yashe Kyitchaung locality in the Late Middle Eocene Pondaung …

Dental remains of a late Eocene anthropoid primate from Thailand, Siamopithecus
eocaenus, have been recently reported; complete description and comparisons of this …

In PNAS, Chaimanee et al.(1) report a previously undescribed species of primate, Afrasia,
from the late Middle Eocene of Burma. They identify Afrasia as the sister taxon to the African …

Among the earliest fossil anthropoid primates known are Catopithecus browni, Serapia
eocaena, Arsinoea kallimos, and Proteopithecus sylviae, from the late Eocene quarry L‐41 …

The suborder Anthropoidea, also called simians or simiiforms, contains New and Old World
monkeys, apes, and humans. The recent discovery of early primate remains has led to the …