Jordan Crowell, Anthropology Ph.D; Stephen Chester, an associate professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center; and John Wible, curator of mammals at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, have co-authored a paper settling a paleontological debate that has been brewing for over 100 years while helping to paint a more clear picture of primate evolution.
The research paper published in Royal Society’s Biology Letters on January 10 has revealed that picrodontids — an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs — are not primates as previously believed.
