Dr. Chris Beard

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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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  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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  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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  "It shows that Ida is out of the running as a [human] ancestor," says the fossil's discoverer, paleontologist K. Christopher Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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  In 2005, Beard discovered a 37-million-year-old jaw fragment in the badlands of central Myanmar. The jaw belonged to an amphipithecid, which Beard and paleontologist Jean-Jacques Jaeger of the University of Poitiers in France have named Ganlea megacanina in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Although the fossil is not nearly as dazzling as a complete skeleton of Ida, Beard knew immediately that the jaw was something special. The jaw belonged to an amphipithecid, which Beard and paleontologist Jean-Jacques Jaeger of the University of Poitiers in France have named Ganlea megacanina in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Although the fossil is not nearly as dazzling as a complete skeleton of Ida, Beard knew immediately that the jaw was something special.
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  This monkeylike behavior, as well as anatomical features in other fossils of amphipithecids from Asia, adds new evidence to the view that amphipithecids were early anthropoids and, hence, that anthropoids arose in Asia, says Beard.

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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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  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 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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  "It's not a missing link, it's not even a terribly close relative to monkeys, apes and humans, which is the point they're trying to make," said Chris Beard, a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. He added, "I would be absolutely dumbfounded if it turns out to be a potential ancestor to humans."

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  Curator and Head of Section: K. Christopher Beard Curator and Associate Director for Research & Collections: Zhe-Xi Luo

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