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Professor Christopher Gilbert's Work Featured in the NY Times

A new study, authored by Professor Christopher Gilbert of the Anthropology Department, reports that a skull fragment, found in Malapa, a cave in South Africa, comes from the earliest baboon ever found. Dr. Gilbert's study was reported in the Science section of the NY Times on August 21 and 24th, 2015:  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/science/a-piece-of-the-earliest-baboon-ever-found.html .  According to the article, "the finding adds to the intrigue of Malapa — namely, why the cave became populated with so many early ancestors of humans and so few monkeys. 'It suggests that this was a very well-covered hole, and maybe people were falling in,' Dr. Gilbert said. 'Maybe the monkeys were more in the trees.'”

 

 

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