Dr. Chris Beard

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  The 38 million-year-old pieces of jawbones and teeth are part of a growing body of evidence that is helping scientists to understand the origin of primates, said Dr. 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.
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  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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  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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  Chris Beard of the Carnegie Museum. The larger one - weighing half an ounce - appears to be a higher primate, perhaps in the same family as Eosimias. "Nobody would have believed that as recently as 45 million years ago, our ancestors were about the size of a shrew," Beard said.
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  proof the creature was a higher primate, Beard said.It apparently walked on all fours, because like monkeys that scurry atop tree branches, their feet faced downward. Lower primate cling to tree trunks, so their feet face inward. But the evidence of Eosimias' status as a higher primate is still not conclusive.

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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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  11 Chris Beard, New Scientist, 21 May 2009, "A fine fossil - but a missing link she's not", pages 18-19, http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17173-why-ida-fossil-is-not-the-missi
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  the whole I think the evidence is less than convincing," said Chris Gilbert, a paleoanthropologist at Yale University.
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  I've got 10 more in my basement," said Chris Beard, a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in

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  "The paper is the first thorough, systematic treatment of the question" of whether there is an ancestral connection between the two primate subgroups, said Chris Beard, chair of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, who was not involved with the research.

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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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