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  • Split Between Apes and Monkeys Linked by New Fossil Records

    Newly discovered fossils in Tanzania may help explain what led to the split between hominoids (large tailless primates, including today's gorillas, chimpanzees and humans) and cercopithecoids, or Old World monkeys, which include today's baboons and macaques, but the announcement, which is based on dental fragments, does not have all experts convinced.