PLOS Genetics, a multinational team of scientists from the US, Brazil, France and Germany published the first comprehensive primate family tree. Using DNA samples representing 90% of all living primates (about 186 species), the authors conducted a phylogenetic analysis to create an indisputable family tree based purely on genetic data. primate’s closest-related mammalian order is Dermoptera, the flying lemurs. Interestingly, this order is rooted in Lagamorpha, so in essence, we all come from rabbits. :)
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 04:36:24 +0000
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