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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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Turns out our love of sweet food goes back—way back—to our early primate ancestors, a University of Otago-led study has found.

The work sheds light on the dietary habits of early anthropoids, which includes fossil monkeys and apes, through analysis of tooth-chipping patterns and cavities.

Published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology, the study used fossils from the Fayum Depression in Egypt, an invaluable source for understanding anthropoid evolution spanning from the late Eocene to the early Oligocene period, or 40 to 29 million-years-ago.

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