A tiny complete skeleton found recently in China supports the view that
A. our earliest ancestors were nocturnal, like Asian tarsiers.
B. Asian primates were the first primates to live in the Paleozoic.
C. the first primates evolved in Asia.
D. larger primates lived only in Europe.
E. the specimens previously thought to be primates from Europe and North Africa were actually mislabeled.
Answer: C
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