Dr. Chris Beard

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  The pieces of 38 million-year-old jawbones and teeth found near Bagan in central Myanmar in 2005 show typical characteristics of primates, said Dr. Chris Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and a member of the team that found the fossils.

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  According to Dr. Chris Beard-- a paleontologist at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a member of the international team of researchers behind the Myanmar anthropoid findings--the new primate, Ganlea megacanina, shows that early anthropoids originated in Asia rather than Africa.
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  "This unusual type of feeding adaptation has never been documented among prosimian primates, but is characteristic of modern South American saki monkeys that inhabit the Amazon Basin," says Dr. Beard.

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  "It's like going back to 1994," says paleontologist K. Christopher Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who has published jaw, teeth, and limb bones of Eosimias.

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  "Science is not a business, nor should it be," said K. Christopher Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. "I know the gem and mineral show brings a lot of activity, but boy, I wish the level of paleontological commercialism could be reduced down there." Beard hasn't been to the gem show but said he received a report on fossil sales from his aunt, who is spending the winter here.
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  "It's hard to critique other countries and what they do with their paleontological heritage," said Beard, who is head of the vertebrate paleontology section at Carnegie, one of the largest natural history museums in the country. It just doesn't seem right, he said. "It's kind of like buying and selling George Washington's wooden teeth."

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  "It's more like our third cousin twice removed," said paleontologist Chris Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History at Johns Hopkins University.

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  The pieces of 38 million-year-old jawbones and teeth found near Bagan in central Myanmar in 2005 show typical characteristics of primates, said Chris Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and a member of the team that found the fossils.
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  Beard and his team from France, Thailand and Myanmar concluded that the fossils - which they dubbed Ganlea megacanina - came from 10 to 15 individuals of a new species that belonged to an extinct family of Asian anthropoid primates known as Amphipithecidae.

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  The pieces of 38 million-year-old jawbones and teeth found near Bagan in central Myanmar in 2005 show typical characteristics of primates, said Dr. Chris Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and a member of the team that found the fossils.
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  Beard and his team from France, Thailand and Myanmar concluded that the fossils - which they dubbed Ganlea megacanina - came from 10 to 15 individuals of a new species that belonged to an extinct family of Asian anthropoid primates known as Amphipithecidae.
  
  Wear and tear found on the canine teeth suggest the tree-dwelling, monkey-like creatures with long tails used their teeth to crack open tropical fruit to get to the pulp and seeds - behavior similar to modern South American saki monkeys that inhabit the Amazon basin, Beard said.
  
  "Not only does Ganlea look like an anthropoid, but it was acting like an anthropoid 38 million years ago by having this feeding ecology that was quite specialized," Beard said.
  
  His team determined that the fossil was 38 million years old, making it several million years older than any anthropoid found in Africa and the second-oldest discovered in Asia.
  
  In 1994, Beard and his Chinese colleagues found fossilized foot bones of the anthropoid Eosimias - one of the worlds smallest primates - which lived between 40 million and 45 million years ago and roamed ancient rain forest on the eastern coast of China.
  
  Beard said the age of both fossils was the evidence he needed to challenge contentions that anthropoid primates had evolved in Africa, where Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old fossil, was discovered in 1974.
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  Beard isn't letting the criticism slow him down. He and his team expect to return in November to Myanmar to continue searching for more fossils and exploring how anthropoids evolved in Asia and then migrated to Africa.

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  Chris Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and a member of the team who found the fossils near Bagan in central Myanmar in 2005.
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  Beard and his team from France, Thailand and Myanmar concluded that the fossils which they dubbed Ganlea megacanina came from 10 to 15 individuals of a new species that belonged to an extinct family of Asian anthropoid primates known on Amphipithecidae.
  
  Wear and tear found on the canine teeth suggest the tree-dwelling, monkey-like creatures with long tails used their teeth to crack open tropical fruit to get to the pulp and seeds behavior similar to modern South American saki monkeys that inhabit the Amazon basin. "Not only does Ganlea look like an anthropoid, but it was acting like an anthropoid 38 million years ago by having this feeding ecology that was quite specialized," Beard said.
  
  His team determined that the fossil was 38 million years old, making it several million years older than any anthropoid found in Africa and the second-oldest discovered in Asia. In 1994, Beard and his Chinese colleagues found fossilized foot bones of the anthropoid Eosimias one of the worlds smallest primates which lived between 40 million and 45 million years ago and roamed ancient rain forest on the eastern coast of China.
  
  Beard said the age of both fossils was the evidence he needed to challenge contentions that anthropoid primates had evolved in Africa, where Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old fossil, was discovered in 1974.

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  In this photo taken Tuesday, June 30, 2009, Dr. Chris Beard, a paleontologist at
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  AP - In this photo taken Tuesday, June 30, 2009, Dr. Chris Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum ...
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  The pieces of 38 million-year-old jawbones and teeth found near Bagan in central Myanmar in 2005 show typical characteristics of primates, said Dr. Chris Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and a member of the team that found the fossils.
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  Beard and his team from France, Thailand and Myanmar concluded that the fossils — which they dubbed Ganlea megacanina — came from 10 to 15 individuals of a new species that belonged to an extinct family of Asian anthropoid primates known as Amphipithecidae.
  
  Wear and tear found on the canine teeth suggest the tree-dwelling, monkey-like creatures with long tails used their teeth to crack open tropical fruit to get to the pulp and seeds — behavior similar to modern South American saki monkeys that inhabit the Amazon basin, Beard said.
  
  "Not only does Ganlea look like an anthropoid, but it was acting like an anthropoid 38 million years ago by having this feeding ecology that was quite specialized," Beard said.
  
  His team determined that the fossil was 38 million years old, making it several million years older than any anthropoid found in Africa and the second-oldest discovered in Asia.
  
  In 1994, Beard and his Chinese colleagues found fossilized foot bones of the anthropoid Eosimias — one of the worlds smallest primates — which lived between 40 million and 45 million years ago and roamed ancient rain forest on the eastern coast of China.
  
  Beard said the age of both fossils was the evidence he needed to challenge contentions that anthropoid primates had evolved in Africa, where Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old fossil, was discovered in 1974.
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  Beard isn't letting the criticism slow him down. He and his team expect to return in November to Myanmar to continue searching for more fossils and exploring how anthropoids evolved in Asia and then migrated to Africa.

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  BANGKOK, Thailand Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday.However, other scientists said that the finding, while significant, won't end the debate over the origin of anthropoids - the primate grouping that includes ancient species as well as modern humans.The pieces of 38 million-year-old jawbones and teeth found near Bagan in central Myanmar in 2005 show typical characteristics of primates, said Dr. Chris Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and a member of the team that found the fossils."When we found it, we knew we had a new type of primate and basically what kind of primate it was," Beard said in a telephone interview from Pittsburgh.
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  In this photo taken Tuesday, June 30, 2009, Dr. Chris Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History , talks about newly discovered fossils from Myanmar while sitting in a courtyard at the Carnegie Museums complex in Pittsburgh. The fossils could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes known as anthropoids evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday, July 1, 2009.
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  In this photo taken Tuesday, June 30, 2009, Dr. Chris Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History , talks about newly discovered fossils from Myanmar while sitting in a courtyard at the Carnegie Museums complex in Pittsburgh. The fossils could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes known as anthropoids evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday, July 1, 2009. In this photo taken Tuesday, June 30, 2009, Dr. Chris Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History , talks about newly discovered fossils from Myanmar while sitting in a courtyard at the Carnegie Museums complex in Pittsburgh. The fossils could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes known as anthropoids evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday, July 1, 2009.
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  The pieces of 38 million-year-old jawbones and teeth found near Bagan in central Myanmar in 2005 show typical characteristics of primates, said Dr. Chris Beard, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and a member of the team that found the fossils.
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  Beard and his team from France, Thailand and Myanmar concluded that the fossils - which they dubbed Ganlea megacanina - came from 10 to 15 individuals of a new species that belonged to an extinct family of Asian anthropoid primates known as Amphipithecidae.
  
  Wear and tear found on the canine teeth suggest the tree-dwelling, monkey-like creatures with long tails used their teeth to crack open tropical fruit to get to the pulp and seeds - behavior similar to modern South American saki monkeys that inhabit the Amazon basin, Beard said.
  
  "Not only does Ganlea look like an anthropoid, but it was acting like an anthropoid 38 million years ago by having this feeding ecology that was quite specialized," Beard said.
  
  His team determined that the fossil was 38 million years old, making it several million years older than any anthropoid found in Africa and the second-oldest discovered in Asia.
  
  In 1994, Beard and his Chinese colleagues found fossilized foot bones of the anthropoid Eosimias - one of the worlds smallest primates - which lived between 40 million and 45 million years ago and roamed ancient rain forest on the eastern coast of China.
  
  Beard said the age of both fossils was the evidence he needed to challenge contentions that anthropoid primates had evolved in Africa, where Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old fossil, was discovered in 1974.

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