Scientists have discovered a new species of African monkey whose facial features look, to me, strikingly human:
Scientists have identified a new species of African monkey whose coloring “is unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” as one of them put it.
[…] The researchers found that the monkeys live in the central part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and have a range of about 6,500 square miles.
[… ] The lesula lives in remote regions that are largely unthreatened by human settlement. But John Hart warned, “Under the current trends of uncontrolled bush-meat hunting, it could become very endangered.”
I don’t see how anyone looking at this new monkey species can doubt that humans and apes are closely related. Let’s hope we don’t lose it too soon…
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