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- noun Plural form of
haplorhine .
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- we get new terms here like "haplorhines", simple noses
I have been enjoying re-reading Dawkins' "The Ancestor's Tale" jinty 2006
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dry nose: Monkeys and apes belong to the group called 'haplorhines' as opposed to the 'strepsirhines' or wet-nosed primates the prosimians.
Pygmy tarsier, a monkey that defies categorization, not extinct afterall! Field Notes 2008
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dry nose: Monkeys and apes belong to the group called 'haplorhines' as opposed to the 'strepsirhines' or wet-nosed primates the prosimians.
Archive 2008-12-01 Field Notes 2008
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The Darwinius team argues that their new fossil, Darwinius, is more closely related to haplorhines (which includes monkeys and apes) than it is to strepsirrhines.
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Scientists have long split the primate order into two suborders: strepsirrhines and haplorhines.
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Darwinius to living and fossil haplorhines, the undisputed positive evidence that it is an adapiform, and the detailed evidence that adapiforms are stem strepsirrhines, suggests that
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Divergence between strepsirrhines (lemurs and lorises) and haplorhines (tarsiers and anthropoids) is correlated with intense volcanic activity on the Lebombo Monocline in Africa about 180 million years ago.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Divergence between strepsirrhines (lemurs and lorises) and haplorhines (tarsiers and anthropoids) is correlated with intense volcanic activity on the Lebombo Monocline in Africa about 180 million years ago.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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