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...enjoying the freshly packed powder at Zermatt when the most interesting woodland creature caught my eye. Unfortunately I also caught a tree trunk with the side of my neck, breaking my clavicle...
Eosimias, which lived 45 million years ago, made news last week when paleontologists disclosed new fossil evidence placing the little animal at a critical juncture in the history of life. According to their report in Nature, it was the species that directly followed a significant branching of the evolutionary tree. One limb led to the prosimians, or lower primates, such as lemurs and bush babies, and the other to the anthropoids, or higher primates, such as monkeys, apes and humans. Eosimias may be the first species on the anthropoid branch of the tree...
Gebo and his colleagues speculate that the anthropoid-like structures of the foot bones helped Eosimians shift from the leaping and clinging typical of tree-dwelling lower primates to walking on all fours, a characteristic that evolved later...
Outside his home, DeVore has created his own version of the 100 Acre Wood. Two years ago, he converted the stump of an old maple tree near his house on Hurlbut St. into a home for Winnie the Pooh...
Just think: No matter how badly you think of your House, it will sure beat living in a tree...