Posted: Oct 15, 2016 12:27 am
Rumraket wrote:
This is one of those areas where, due to the poverty of the fossil record, we don't even know where these primates originated. There are papers where researchers report fossils from asia, such as this: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/26/10293.abstract
The paper is interesting in that it proposes an Asian origin for the great apes. Certainly, the lesser apes (i.e. gibbons) are found in the wild only in Asia.