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Cranioskeletal Features in Tupaiids and Selected Eutheria as Phylogenetic Evidence

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Comparative Biology and Evolutionary Relationships of Tree Shrews

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Anyone hoping to illustrate current difficulties with mammalian systematics might well recruit the problem of tree shrew relationships as an heuristic example. Despite the numerous, and often excellent, taxonomic and comparative studies on the subject, the phyletic position of tupaiids within the Eutheria is far from satisfactorily ascertained. The relationships of these animals have been investigated through studies of a broad spectrum of morphological and biochemical evidence, but osteological features are emphasized in many published interpretations (see Luckett, this volume).

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Novacek, M.J. (1980). Cranioskeletal Features in Tupaiids and Selected Eutheria as Phylogenetic Evidence. In: Luckett, W.P. (eds) Comparative Biology and Evolutionary Relationships of Tree Shrews. Advances in Primatology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1051-8_2

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