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| | Justine A. Salton, PhD Program in Biology-EEB, Graduate Center, City University of New York |
 | | Tenrecidae, an understudied family of placental mammals known as tenrecs, includes twenty-seven species that have been isolated on the island of Madagascar for at least thirty million years. |
 | | From the hedgehog-like Setifer, to the otter-like aquatic Limnogale, to the mole-like, digging Oryzorictes, tenrecs exhibit an extraordinary variety of forms, habitats, and locomotor behaviors. |
 | | Tenrecidaes supposed primitive mammalian status, coupled with its interspecific ecological diversity make this an ideal family for exploring hypotheses related to the adaptive evolution and function of skeletal form. |
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