Stories by Elwyn L. Simons

This extinct primate is the earliest hominid, or distinctively manlike, member of man's family tree. The finding of many new specimens of it has clarified its place in human evolution

This extinct ape was the largest primate that ever lived. First discovered as a fossil tooth in China, it is now represented by four massive jawbones, one of which was recently found in India

What kind of animal gave rise to modern apes and man? The answer has been brought considerably closer by the unearthing in Egypt of the skull of an ancestral ape that dates back 28 million years

New evidence from fossils of the period between 60 and 12 million years ago not only illun1inates the main stages of primate evolution but also singles out the ape stock from which the human line arose