Tiny 4.2 million-year-old monkey discovery casts new light on evolution
<p>Nanopithecus browni weighed just one kilogram and was the size of a pineapple.</p>
<p>The discovery of a tiny <a data-vars-event-id="c6" data-vars-item-name="BL-9005456-/topic/Monkeys" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/Monkeys" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">monkey</a> which weighed no more than a pineapple may change scientists’ understanding of how primates evolved. Researchers working in <a data-vars-event-id="c6" data-vars-item-name="BL-9005456-/topic/Kenya" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/Kenya" target="_blank">Kenya</a> have found a 4.2 million-year-old fossil of a miniature monkey which only weighed one kilogram. The newly discovered species, <em>Nanopithecus browni</em>, is the same size as the world’s smallest Old World monkey, the talapoin.</p>
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