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On the Tarsiiform Origins of Anthropoidea

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Evolutionary Biology of the New World Monkeys and Continental Drift

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Many systematic papers of the past decade have employed a cladistic approach. Reasons for this lie largely in the superficially rigorous appearance of this method and, therefore, the impression of a powerful tool. An unvarying commitment to the operational underpinnings of cladism has led to the acceptance of a systematic methodology which perforce only recognizes, and can only search for, sister-group relationships (e.g., Engelman and Wiley, 1977). The notion of ancestor-descendant relationships, or to put it differently, that phena transform from antecedent phena, has been simply set aside. This fundamental aspect of real evolutionary history has come to be ignored at the expense of a method because hypotheses of descent are claimed to be unfalsifiable, whereas sister-group relationships are thought to be easily refutable.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Box 4348, Chicago, Illinois, 60680, USA

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Rosenberger, A.L., Szalay, F.S. (1980). On the Tarsiiform Origins of Anthropoidea. In: Ciochon, R.L., Chiarelli, A.B. (eds) Evolutionary Biology of the New World Monkeys and Continental Drift. Advances in Primatology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3764-5_7

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