Evidence from earliest known erinaceomorph basicranium that insectivorans and primates are not closely related
Abstract
The erinaceomorph insectivorans, which include the living hedgehog and a diversity of archaic taxa1-3, have long been considered to be close relatives or direct ancestors of primates and a variety of other placental mammal orders4-6. We report here on the oldest known erinaceomorph basicranium which provides new evidence against the view that primates and erinaceomorphs share a close common ancestry.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- December 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1038/306683a0
- Bibcode:
- 1983Natur.306..683N