When, where, and why did they evolve? Species in the fossil record that exhibit all these features will be easy to recognize as primates. However, at some point primates must have evolved from ...

Cast your mind back 56 million years. Can’t? Allow us to refresh your memory: it was the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a ...

Gebo, D. A shrew-sized origin for Primates. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 47, 40-62 (2004). Gingerich, P.D. Environment and evolution through the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Trends in ...

But so far there are no Paleocene fossils a paleontologist would look at and call a primate or a horse—and it is not, Gingerich told me, for lack of looking. During the PETM itself a strange ...

Today the average global temperature is around 15-16 degrees Celsius, but in the Paleocene it was around ... The PETM is the period during which primates and social monkeys evolved.

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.