#Masripithecus: A new #Miocene ape from #Egypt sheds light on the origins of modern apes
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-masripithecus-miocene-ape-egypt-modern.html paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz4102
"Masripithecus provides a crucial intermediate link between the previously disjunct African and Eurasian fossil records, revealing that #apes were already diversifying in the area and therefore positioned to expand into Europe and Asia as soon as land connections were established."
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"Humans instinctively mimic the facial expressions of monkeys and apes"
https://www.earth.com/news/humans-instinctively-mimic-the-facial-expressions-of-monkeys-and-apes/
"People don’t just recognize emotions on the faces of monkeys and apes. They also tend to copy those expressions without meaning to.
A new study suggests that, when we watch a non-human primate look playful or threatening, our own faces subtly echo what we see …"
You might be doing it right now 😮