Sunday, April 18, 2004

Primate

Traditionally, the order Primates was divided into Prosimii (the primitive primates: lemurs, lorises. and tarsiers) and Anthropoidea (the bigger-brained monkeys and apes, including humans). It is now known that one of the �prosimians,� the tarsier, is actually more closely related to the �anthropoids,� so the classification of the primates has had to be revised. The two suborders

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