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 | | The new fossil evidence supports a novel proposal that lemurs, lorises and bushbabies, which comprise a sister group to higher primates, might have originated in Indo-Madagascar rather than in Africa. |
 | | In Karanisia, the teeth at the front of the lower jaw formed a toothcomb like that typically seen in living strepsirrhine primates, which includes bushbabies, lorises and lemurs, as one of their defining characteristics. |
 | | Seiffert and colleagues conclude that the new finds are compatible with the widely accepted view that the lorises and bushbabies (as a group) diverged from lemurs 50 million to 53 million years ago, and that their last common ancestor lived in Afro-Arabia. |
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