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Fossil evidence for an ancient divergence of lorises and galagos
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Morphological, molecular, and biogeographic data bearing on early primate evolution suggest that the clade containing extant (or ‘crown’) strepsirrhine primates (lemurs, lorises and galagos) arose in Afro-Arabia during the early Palaeogene, but over a century of palaeontological exploration on that landmass has failed to uncover any conclusive support for that hypothesis. Here we describe the first demonstrable crown strepsirrhines from the Afro-Arabian Palaeogene—a galagid and a possible lor...
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Seiffert, Erik R.
Simons, Elwyn L.
Attia, Yousry
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- Journal:
- Nature More from this journal
- Issue:
- 422
- Publication date:
- 2003-01-01
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uuid:a22ed2fc-34ac-400f-ad0e-75c196b5fbb0
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- ora:843
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http://sers009b.sers.ox.ac.uk/archive/00000985/
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- 2012-11-15
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- 2003
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