How much you need: 600 micrograms daily. The minimal supplementation recommendation is 400 mcg in a vitamin/supplement. The rest women can get from their diet. Why you need it: Folate helps your babyâs brain and nervous system develop, which happens early in your pregnancy.
Furthermore as the human population is growing in towns and cities they are badly damaging chimpsâ habitats. The apes have been pushed far back so that the humans could encroach what is rightfully theirs. These human developments have left adverse effects on animalsâ homes leaving only isolated pockets of forests.
DNA evidence has long suggested that apes and Old World monkeys diverged from a common ancestor between 25 million and 30 million years ago. But until now, no fossils older than 20 million years had been found. The age of the new specimens extends the origin of apes and Old World monkeys into the Oligocene Epoch, which lasted from 34 million to 23 million years ago. Previously, only three primate species were known from the late Oligocene globally, Stevens said.