The terms “Old World” and “New World” emerged after Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and came upon another world, with the former expression used to describe the continents of Africa ...
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Martin, Sandra L., Zimmer, Elizabeth Anne, Kan, Y. W., and Wilson, Allan C. 1980. "Silent ?-globin gene in Old World monkeys." Proceedings of the National Academy of ...