Word: tarsius
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...have descended from a protolemuroid stock and it was paleontologically fashionable to speak of the "lemuroid phase" in the evolution of Anthropoidea (apes, monkeys, humans). Recent research in comparative anatomy has tended to displace the lemurs, as human ancestors, in favor of a small, tree-living nocturnal animal called Tarsius which has a thumb opposable to its fingers, eats with its hands and gives birth to one young at a time.* If there was a Tarsius on the human family tree, Dr. Jepsen thinks the little sharp-toothed primate of Big Horn Basin was his contemporary-a sort of cousin...
...Tarsius also has a tail with fur at both ends, bare in the middle...
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