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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.
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Novacek, M., McKenna, M., Neff, N. et al. Evidence from earliest known erinaceomorph basicranium that insectivorans and primates are not closely related. Nature 306, 683–684 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/306683a0
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