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- noun Plural form of
haplorrhine .
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The haplorrhines include the three living groups the prosimian Teilhardina asiatica, a mouse-sized, diurnal creature with small eyes.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] HappyBirthdayDarwin 2010
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The haplorrhines include the three living groups the prosimian
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] HappyBirthdayDarwin 2010
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Darwinius possesses a different trait that is missing in early haplorrhines.
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The haplorrhines include the three living groups the prosimian
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] HappyBirthdayDarwin 2010
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The haplorrhines include the three living groups the prosimian Teilhardina asiatica, a mouse-sized, diurnal creature with small eyes.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] HappyBirthdayDarwin 2010
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The new paper by Williams, Kay, Kirk, and Ross contributes to this understanding by considering how early primates are identified as either haplorrhines and strepsirrhines.
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Darwinius cannot be taken as a sign of affinity to haplorrhines because it is indicative of convergent evolution, not a close genetic relationship.
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Darwinius possessed more traits in common with haplorrhines than strepsirrhines.
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Lemurs are strepsirrhine primates, living members of a diverse group which split from our side of the family tree (the haplorrhines) over 55 million years ago.
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Instead anthropoids and the stock from which they arose are haplorrhines ( "dry-nosed" primates), with tarsiers and an extinct group of tarsier-like primates called omomyids being much closer to them than the adapids.
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