Skull Scans and Evolutionary Surprises: Picrodontids Not Primates After All

A student and a professor from CUNY’s Graduate Center and Brooklyn College have pruned a branch off the primate tree. New research reveals that picrodontids, small extinct mammals, are not related to primates. This discovery, made by examining a picrodontid skull with advanced CT scans, overturns

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