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Developmental Evidence from the Fetal Membranes for Assessing Archontan Relationships

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Primates and Their Relatives in Phylogenetic Perspective

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During the past decade, increased attention has been devoted to a search for the nearest relatives of Primates, from molecular, paleontological, and comparative anatomical perspectives (Goodman et al., 1982; Novacek, 1982, 1990; Novacek and Wyss, 1986; Miyamoto and Goodman, 1986; Shoshani, 1986; Pettigrew, 1986; Wible and Covert, 1987; Pettigrew et al., 1989; Czelusniak et al., 1990). Many paleontologists and evolutionary morphologists continue to find support for a cladistic relationship among Primates, Scandentia, Der-moptera, and Chiroptera as the superorder Archonta, although the morphological evidence for this association remains sparse (Novacek, 1990). In contrast, recent analyses of amino acid sequence data suggest that primates are more closely related to rodents and lagomorphs (Miyamoto and Goodman, 1986), or to a larger unresolved cluster of Rodentia, Lagomorpha, Scandentia, Chiroptera, Lipotyphla, Pholidota, and Carnivora (Czelusniak et al., 1990). Mitochondrial DNA and immunodiffusion distance data (Adkins and Honeycutt, this volume; Cronin and Sarich, 1980; Sarich, 1993) consistently group Dermoptera as the sister taxon of Primates, and strongly support the monophyly of Chiroptera, contrary to assertions by Pettigrew et al. (1989) based on selected neuroanatomical findings.

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