Sally McBrearty
Sally McBrearty
body gets likely preserved teeth
Teeth are the part of the body that gets preserved most frequently. All things being equal, you're more likely to find teeth than anything else.
anatomy evolution fossils logical necessity preserved remain teach
So little of the anatomy is preserved that these fossils do not teach us much new about chimpanzee anatomical evolution. There is no logical necessity why chimps had to remain in the forest.
expected fossils last
I must say that chimp fossils were about the last thing I would have expected to find there.