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Molecular Evidence for the Affinities of Tupaiidae

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Comparative Biology and Evolutionary Relationships of Tree Shrews

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The basic method for deducing relationships among living organisms of any type is by assessing the degree of difference and similarity in various characters common to the groups under consideration. Traditionally, these characters have been morphological in nature. As a result, most students of systematic biology and evolution have been anatomists and paleontologists. It was largely through the efforts of these investigators that modern taxonomy has been brought to its present state. However, as is so often the case among investigators in any science, there have been disagreements both in conclusions derived from comparative work and in taxonomies developed from this work.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 48201, USA

    Howard Dene & Morris Goodman

  2. Department of Biology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, USA

    William Prychodko

  3. Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

    Genji Matsuda

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Dene, H., Goodman, M., Prychodko, W., Matsuda, G. (1980). Molecular Evidence for the Affinities of Tupaiidae. 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_9

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