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Primate ancestor lived with dinosaurs Co-author Dr Christophe Soligo of the Natural History Museum in London said the new work put specific events within primate evolution into a very different context.
"The world 85 million years ago was very different to the world 65 million years ago," he told the BBC.
"What we demonstrate is that modern orders of mammals appeared well before dinosaurs disappeared so the initial divergence of modern orders of mammals cannot be the results of the extinction of the dinosaurs."