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Monkeys Just Challenged a Major Assumption About How Human Ancestors Climbed

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Monkeys Just Challenged a Major Assumption About How Human Ancestors Climbed
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A study shows that monkeys use their feet to climb trees as skillfully as chimpanzees. The way a primate climbs a tree can offer clues about how our own ancestors once moved. New research suggests that whatever scientists eventually determine about the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, that ancestor was almost certainly capable [...]

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