Remarkably well-preserved 13 million-year-old infant skull of a new species of primate sheds new light on the African origins of humans and apes

The baby skull of a new species of primate that lived 13 million years ago could shed new light on the great mystery of how apes became human.

The skull, nicknamed Alesi, dates to Miocene epoch - around the time when apes were beginning to expand their range into Eurasia. 

The infant creature is not related to living apes and humans, but may have looked similar to our long-extinct ancestor. 

Scientists described the creature, found in Kenya, as being like a non-acrobatic baby gibbon with a small snout. 

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