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ACCORDING to the report published in NATURE (April 11, p. 574), Mr. H. F. Standing recently presented a memoir to the Zoological Society in which he described certain extinct lemuroids from Madagascar as being, “in many respects, intermediate between existing lemurs and monkeys,” and, as the result of this interpretation of the anatomy of these animals, he expressed the view “that it was not possible to separate the Primates, as hitherto, into the two suborders Lemuroidea and Anthropoidea.”
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SMITH, G. On the Relationship of Lemurs and Apes. Nature 76, 7–8 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076007d0
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