[VadeRetro]

Didn't monkeys split off from the ape line many million years before the ape line began to diverge into early apes (including Australo), modern apes, and humans?

The earliest primitive primates are about 55 million years ago. The old-world new-world split comes about 36 million years ago. Apes split from monkeys IIRC about 30 million years ago. The line leading to humans diverges from the line leading to chimps 5-7 million years ago.

[Coyoteman]

Didn't monkeys split off from the ape line many million years before the ape line began to diverge into early apes (including Australo), modern apes, and humans?

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The earliest primitive primates are about 55 million years ago. The old-world new-world split comes about 36 million years ago. Apes split from monkeys IIRC about 30 million years ago. The line leading to humans diverges from the line leading to chimps 5-7 million years ago.

That's pretty much what I learned in school some (unspecified) years back. Some of what I learned has changed, but mostly it is filling in the details.

I guess that means Australo was not on the monkey line, eh? (only missed by 25-30 million years, but who's counting.

[VadeRetro]

The earliest primitive primates are about 55 million years ago.

Wrong. Over 60 mya.