Timothy Birdnow

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!

New Study Shatters Long-Standing Myths About Primate Origins

This study claims primates evolved in cold deserts, not in jungles.

I don't buy it; monkeys are natural climbers, and they fare very well in extremely dense woodland where they can climb up into trees. That shouts jungle evolution, not temerate forest or desert evolution.

Four hands instead of two are supremely adapted to tree habitation.

As the article points out the Teilhardina, a tiny little primate, required a large diet because it used so much energy. How does a fruit and nut gatherer provide enough food to be so active in a desert region?

Of course this article goes on to spout the party line about "climate change" and "habitat destruction" and all the other claims made by the pseudo-scientific left.

At any rate despite what this study found I suspect they are wrong and I further suspecct their methodology.

They claim primates evolved in North America, a place without ANY primates (you have to get to central America and the jungles there to find any). They also claim the climates where the fossils have been found were cold at that time. Maybe, and maybe not. The dating could be wrong.

But it's clear that primates evolved to live in forests and this study suggests otherwise. When in doubt go with the evidence, not the modeling.

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