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Evolution of Lorises and Lemurs

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Author	Charles-Dominique, P.
Copyright Year	2017
Description	Classifications of the order Primates attract great attention because of their special relevance to human evolution. There are six "natural groups" of living Primates: malagasy lemurs; bush-babies, pottos and lorises; tarsiers; new world monkeys; old world monkeys; and apes and man. The chief points of contention have been: inclusion of the tree shrews with the Primates; ranking of the Tarsiiformes or the simians; the inclusion of various fossil groups; and the fine details of hominid evolution. The "ancestral Primate stock" is generally thought to be located in the Upper Cretaceous and/or Palaeocene, while the existing and subfossil Malagasy lemurs are thought to have been derived from a single stock isolated on Madagascar in early Eocene times primarily as a result of continental drift. The Eocene fossil Notharctidae, widely regarded as direct relatives of the Malagasy lemurs, probably came from a separate stock roughly contemporaneous with the hypothetical lemur/loris stock. Book Name: Primate Evolution and Human Origins
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Ending Page	71
Page Count	3
Starting Page	69
DOI	10.4324/9781315127408-11
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2017-09-08
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Primate Evolution and Human Origins History and Philosophy of Science Evolution Primates Malagasy Lemurs Eocene Monkeys Lorises Fossil
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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