CLASSIFICATION
CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIMATES
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Question
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Tarsiers would have had to have evolved all nails independent of anthropoids
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Tarsiers would have had to have lost the reflective tapetum independent of anthropoids
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Tarsiers would have had to have lost the rhinarium independent of anthropoids
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Tarsiers would have had to have gained post orbital closure independent of anthropoids
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all of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Prosimians are the members of the primates group that includes all the organisms that are living or are extinct and also those animals that are related to them and their ancestors. They include Lemur, lorisoids, and their relatives that include the Tarsiers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Like lorises & lemurs, tarsiers are also NOCTURNAL. Like anthropoids, tarsiers have more ENCLOSED BONY ORBITS.
Detailed explanation-3: -They are primitive in the sense that they retain characteristics of the very first primates from millions of years ago. Prosimians include lemurs, lorises, galagos and tarsiers. The other main group of primates, the simians, likely evolved after the prosimians.
Detailed explanation-4: -And, it turns out, these oddballs are our distant cousins. Despite sharing some traits with strepsirrhines (the lemurs and lorises), tarsiers are actually a sister group to anthropoids, the group that encompasses monkeys and apes, including humans.