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Evolution of lemurs

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and reversing the strong current that presently flows away from Madagascar. The currents were even shown to be stronger than they are today, shortening the rafting time to approximately 30 days or less, making the crossing much easier for a small mammal. Over time, as the continental plates drifted
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normally filled by other types of mammals. They include the smallest primates in the world, and once included some of the largest. Since the arrival of humans approximately 2,000 years ago, lemurs are now restricted to 10% of the island, or approximately 60,000 square kilometers (23,000 square
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remains, they were modern forms and are counted as part of the rich lemur diversity that evolved in isolation. Some of their adaptations were unlike those seen in lemurs today. All 17 extinct lemurs were larger than the extant forms, some weighing as much as 200 kg (440 lb), and are
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tells a different story. Although it cannot show the earliest possible date for the appearance of a taxonomic group, other concerns have arisen about these vastly earlier divergence dates predicted independently of the fossil record. First, palaeontologists have expressed concerns that if primates
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between Madagascar and Africa has also been proposed, but a land bridge would have facilitated the migration of a much greater sampling of Africa's mammalian fauna than is endemic to the island. Furthermore, deep trenches separate Madagascar from the mainland, and prior to the Oligocene, sea level
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gene, which are frequently used to determine phylogenetic relationships among mammals—particularly within families and genera—have been used to show that lemurs share common ancestry with lorisoids. This conclusion is also corroborated by the shared strepsirrhine toothcomb, an unusual trait that is
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drove family-level divergence since the first carnivores arrived on the island between 24 and 18 mya. The precise relationship between the four of the five families of lemurs is disputed since they diverged during this narrow and distant window. Although all studies place Cheirogaleidae and
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Having evolved in Madagascar's challenging environment, replete with poor soils, extreme shifts in poor, seasonal plant productivity, and devastating climatic events such as extended droughts and annual cyclones, lemurs have adopted unique combinations of unusual traits to survive, distinguishing
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and become dormant while living off fat reserves. Such a trait in a small, nocturnal lemur ancestor would have facilitated the ocean voyage and could have been passed on to its descendants. However, this trait has not been observed in the closely related lorisoids studied to date, and could have
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As plate tectonics theory took hold, oceanic dispersal fell out of favor and was even considered by many researchers to be "miraculous" if it occurred. Despite the low likelihood of its occurrence, oceanic dispersal remains the most accepted explanation for numerous vertebrate colonizations of
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Lemurs have diversified greatly since first reaching Madagascar. The aye-aye and its extinct relations are thought to have diverged first, shortly after colonization. According to molecular studies, there have since been two major episodes of diversification, from which all other known
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and extinct family lineages emerged. The remaining families diverged in the first diversification episode, during a 10 to 12 million-year window between the Late Eocene (42 mya) and into the Oligocene (30 mya). The dates for this divergence window span the
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A variant of the land bridge hypothesis has been proposed in an attempt to explain both how a land bridge could have formed, and why other mammalian orders failed to cross it. Geological studies have shown that following the collision of India and Asia, the
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have been around for significantly more than 66 million years, then the first one-third of the primate fossil record is missing. Another problem is that some of these molecular dates have overestimated the divergence of other mammalian orders, such as
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suggest that lemurs made their way to Madagascar between 40 and 52 mya. Other mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence comparisons offer an alternative date range of 62 to 65 mya. An ancestral lemur population is thought to have inadvertently
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The dating of the lemur colonization is controversial for the same reasons as strepsirrhine evolution. Using both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences, a single colonization has been estimated at 62 to 65 mya based on the split between the
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on the inhabitants of the island between the Cretaceous and the Eocene. As Madagascar edged above the subtropical ridge and India moved closer to Asia, the climate became less dry and the arid spiny bush retreated to the south and southwest.
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that no longer exist or are now left unoccupied. Large parts of Madagascar, which are now devoid of forests and lemurs, once hosted diverse primate communities that included more than 20 species covering the full range of lemur sizes.
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have also assisted in understanding their phylogeny and diversification. Although the divergence estimates for these two genera are imprecise, they overlap with a change to a wetter climate in Madagascar, as new weather patterns generated
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and the rest of the lemurs. On the other hand, the sparse fossil record and some estimates based on other nuclear genes support a more recent estimate of 40 to 52 mya. Furthermore, a fossil strepsirrhine primate from Africa,
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With Madagascar already geographically isolated by the Paleocene and lemur diversification dating to the same time, an explanation was needed for how lemurs had made it to the island. In the 19th century, prior to the theory of
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when humans arrived on the island roughly 2,000 years ago. Only recently has molecular research shown a more distant split in these genera. Most surprising were the mouse lemurs, a group which is now thought to contain
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Since their arrival on Madagascar, lemurs have diversified both in behavior and morphology. Their diversity rivals that of the monkeys and apes found throughout the rest of the world, especially when the recently extinct
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and hunting, at least 17 species and 8 genera have gone extinct and the populations of all species have decreased. A couple of species once thought to have gone extinct have since been rediscovered. The
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along the Davie Fracture Zone suggest that at least parts of the Mozambique Channel were above sea level between 45 and 26 mya, or possibly as early as 55 mya. Following the Indian-Asian collision, the
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have been found on Madagascar, and the fossil record from both Africa and Asia around this time is not much better. Fossil sites in Madagascar are restricted to only five windows in time, which omit most of the
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unlikely to have evolved twice. If adapiforms were the ancestors of the living strepsirrhines, then the last common ancestor of modern strepsirrhines would have to predate the early Eocene, a view supported by
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Lepilemuridae as a sister clade to Indriidae and Lemuridae, some suggest that Cheirogaleidae and Lepilemuridae diverged first, while others suggest that Indriidae and Lemuridae were the first to branch off.
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adapiforms, as a stem group to modern strepsirrhines, including lemurs. In 2009, a highly publicized and scientifically criticized publication proclaimed that a 47-million-year-old adapiform fossil,
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traits with early primates. In this regard, lemurs are popularly confused with ancestral primates; however, lemurs did not give rise to monkeys and apes, but evolved independently on Madagascar.
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strepsirrhines evolved on the Afro-Arabian landmass, dispersing to Madagascar and more recently from Africa to Asia. More recently, the structure and general presence of the toothcomb in
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Gommery, D.; Ramanivosoa, B.; Tombomiadana-Raveloson, S.; Randrianantenaina, H.; Kerloc'h, P. (2009). "A new species of giant subfossil lemur from the North-West of Madagascar (
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The arrival of humans on the island 1,500 to 2,000 years ago has taken a significant toll, not only on the size of lemur populations, but also on their diversity. Due to
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and Ziheng Yang in 2004, which showed that lemurs split from lorises approximately 62 to 65 mya. These dates were confirmed by more extensive tests by Julie Horvath
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at 30° S latitude and disruption of the weather patterns by India as it drifted northward. Both would have created a drying effect on Madagascar, and as a result, the
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Tavaré, S.; Marshall, C. R.; Will, O.; Soligo, C.; Martin, R. D. (2002). "Using the fossil record to estimate the age of the last common ancestor of extant primates".
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proposed the idea in his influential article "Climate and Evolution" in 1915. In the article, Matthew could only account for the presence of lemurs in Madagascar by "
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created tension along the fault, causing it to subside beneath the ocean. The divergence dates of many Malagasy mammalian orders formerly fell within this window.
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might be more closely related to the other Afro-Asian strepsirrhines than to the rest of the lemurs. This idea was initially based on similarities in behavior and
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McLain, A. T.; Meyer, T. J.; Faulk, C.; Herke, S. W.; Oldenburg, J. M.; Bourgeois, M. G.; Abshire, C. F.; Roos, C.; Batzer, M. A. (2012). Murphy, W. J (ed.).
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The ancestral lemur that colonized Madagascar is thought to have been small and nocturnal. More specifically, it is thought to have had adapiform-like
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Once safely established on Madagascar, with its limited mammalian population, the lemurs were protected from the increasing competition from evolving
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primates, and thus are often confused as being ancestral to modern monkeys, apes, and humans. Instead, they merely resemble ancestral primates.
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Horvath, J. E.; Weisrock, D. W.; Embry, S. L.; Fiorentino, I.; Balhoff, J. P.; Kappeler, P.; Wray, G. A.; Willard, H. F.; Yoder, A. D. (2008).
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This difference in evolutionary divergence between the two genera may be due to differences in their activity patterns. True lemurs are often
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between Africa and Madagascar are significantly larger, they are too young, having been formed by volcanic activity only around 8 mya. A
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can occasionally raft to remote islands on floating mats of tangled vegetation, which get flushed out to sea from major rivers by floodwaters.
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have made it to the island, each likely to have derived from a single colonization, and since these colonizations date to either the early
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thought to have been active during the day. Not only were they unlike the living lemurs in both size and appearance, they also filled
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Flynn, J.J.; Wyss, A.R. (2003). "Mesozoic Terrestrial Vertebrate Faunas: The Early History of Madagascar's Vertebrate Diversity".
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in Egypt pushed the date of lorisoid divergence back to the Eocene, matching the divergence dates predicted by Yoder and Horvath.
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depleted the soil, the cyclical forest regrowth and burning ended as the forest gradually failed to return. Today, the level of
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that is currently found in the south and southwest of Madagascar would have dominated the island. This would have placed strong
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The second major episode of diversification occurred during the Late Miocene, approximately 8 to 12 mya, and included the
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them significantly from other primates. In response to limited, seasonal resources, lemurs may exhibit seasonal fat storage,
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Franzen, J. L.; Gingerich, P. D.; Habersetzer, J.; Hurum, J. H.; Von Koenigswald, W.; Smith, B. H. (2009). J., Hawks (ed.).
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Dunham, A. E.; Rudolf, V. H. W. (2009). "Evolution of sexual size monomorphism: the influence of passive mate guarding".
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The relationship between known fossil primate families remains unclear. A conservative estimate for the divergence of
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JaneÄŤka, J.E.; Miller, W.; Pringle, T.H.; Wiens, F.; Zitzmann, A.; Helgen, K.M.; Springer, M.S.; Murphy, W.J. (2007).
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emerged as the most popular explanation for how lemurs reached the island. The idea first took shape under the anti-
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Late Cretaceous Vertebrates of Madagascar: A Window into Gondwanan Biogeography at the End of the Age of Dinosaurs
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studies, the last common ancestor of all primates dates to around 79.6 mya, although the earliest known
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have also been proposed. The timing and number of hypothesized colonizations has traditionally hinged on the
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diversity increases with precipitation, from the dry southern forests to the wetter northern forests to the
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northward, the currents gradually changed, and by 20 mya the window for oceanic dispersal had closed.
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was once considered one of five subspecies of diademed sifaka. In 1986, Ian Tattersall subsumed it as a
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Samonds, K. E.; Zalmout, I. S.; Irwin, M. T.; Krause, D. W.; Rogers, R. R.; Raharivony, L. L. (2009). "
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has been questioned, as well as many other dental features, suggesting it is most likely an adapiform.
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lineages. Media sources inaccurately dubbed the fossil as a "missing link" between lemurs and humans.
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Having undergone their own independent evolution on Madagascar, lemurs have diversified to fill many
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Chapter 1: Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from Madagascar: Implications for Biotic Change in Deep Time
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Ali, J. R.; Huber, M. (2010). "Mammalian biodiversity on Madagascar controlled by ocean currents".
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created compression along the Davie Fracture Zone, causing it to rise. By the early Miocene, the
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during times of low sea level. However, this is unlikely since the only seamounts found along the
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Since the 1970s, the rafting hypothesis has been called into question by claims that lemur family
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primates are only 54–55 million years old. The closest relatives of primates are the extinct
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Until recently, giant species of lemur existed on Madagascar. Now represented only by recent or
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which branched off from other primates less than 63 million years ago, evolved on the island of
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remains, but today it remains one of the world's 25 most endangered primates. One distinctive
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had been pushed up by tectonic forces, possibly high enough to create a land bridge. Indeed,
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Orlando, L.; Calvignac, S.; Schnebelen, C.; Douady, C. J.; Godfrey, L. R.; Hänni, C. (2008).
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Pastorini, J.; Forstner, M. R. J.; Martin, R. D. (2001). "Phylogenetic history of sifakas (
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by Sclater—that has since disappeared under the Indian Ocean. By the early 20th century,
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Any extended ocean voyage without fresh water or food would prove difficult for a large,
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in the late 1980s. Historically, it had a much wider geographic distribution, shown by
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Poux, C.; Madsen, O.; Marquard, E.; Vieites, D. R.; De Jong, W. W.; Vences, M. (2005).
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Madagascar, including that of the lemurs. Although unlikely, over long periods of time
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from all known localities. Unless trends change, extinctions are likely to continue.
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Most of the 99 living lemur taxa are found only on Madagascar. Two species, the
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morphology, although it gained support with the 2001 discovery of 30‑million-year-old
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Some hypotheses on the Mesozoic and Cenozoic paleoenvironmental history of Madagascar
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and other mammalian groups that would not have been ancestral to lemurs or the other
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was thought to have a toothcomb, but also had even more similar molar morphology to
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evolved on Madagascar in response to the island's harsh environmental conditions.
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Groves, C. P.; Helgen, K. M. (2007). "Craniodental Characters in the Taxonomy of
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suggested that Madagascar and India were once part of a southern continent—named
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Lemurs are primates belonging to the suborder Strepsirrhini. Like other
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diversity, including the diversity and complexity of lemur communities.
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to the island on a floating mat of vegetation, although hypotheses for
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An alternative form of oceanic dispersal that had been considered was
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To complicate the ancestry puzzle, no terrestrial Eocene or Paleocene
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along the east coast. Increased foliage corresponds to increased
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adapiform primates in Africa and Asia, ultimately driving them to
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Facts on File. 4097:(10): 5879–5884. 3975:978-0-674-02659-9 3907:Mittermeier, R.A. 3867:Mittermeier, R.A. 3770:(1382): 663–665. 3688:(5301): 797–804. 3643:(5851): 792–794. 3494:978-0-387-34586-4 3451:978-0-387-34586-4 3428:978-0-387-34586-4 3405:978-0-387-34586-4 3382:978-0-387-34586-4 3359:978-0-387-34586-4 3332:978-0-387-34585-7 3283:978-1-56098-682-9 3224:. pp. 47–51. 3215:. pp. 40–47. 3206:. pp. 34–40. 3197:. pp. 16–34. 3102:10.1159/000095391 3072:978-0-300-12550-4 2947:978-0-486-22668-2 2729:978-0-12-372576-9 2665:(7281): 653–656. 2619:, pp. 47–51. 2484:, pp. 41–64. 2472:, pp. 10–21. 2460:, pp. 15–17. 2421:, pp. 37–51. 2302:, pp. 85–86. 2232:, pp. 14–15. 2153:, pp. 38–39. 2097:, pp. 23–26. 2082:, pp. 34–40. 2070:, pp. 40–47. 1840:Ankel-Simons 2007 1633:Bloch et al. 2007 1563:ecological niches 1507:sperm competition 1169:drought tolerance 1157:subtropical ridge 1114: 1113: 1088: 1087: 1079: 1078: 1070: 1069: 1061: 1060: 1052: 1051: 1043: 1042: 982: 981: 879:Lemuroidea  868: 867: 859: 858: 850: 849: 826: 825: 817: 816: 661:Old World monkeys 657:East African Rift 534:orders of mammals 484:oceanic dispersal 464:continental drift 266:transitional form 163:Middle Cretaceous 16:(Redirected from 6072: 6042: 6041: 6030: 6029: 6028: 6018: 6017: 6009: 5991: 5981: 5980: 5780:Modern synthesis 5540:Multicellularity 5535:Mosaic evolution 5420:auditory ossicle 5102:Social selection 5085:Flowering plants 5080:Sexual selection 4733: 4726: 4719: 4710: 4696: 4695: 4548: 4541: 4534: 4525: 4519: 4517: 4511:. 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Archived from 3941: 3915: 3902: 3862: 3852: 3842: 3805: 3795: 3754: 3713: 3676: 3634: 3624: 3614: 3588: 3578: 3558: 3543: 3533: 3516:(6): 1363–1383. 3498: 3455: 3432: 3409: 3386: 3363: 3344: 3313: 3304: 3303:. pp. 3–43. 3295: 3264: 3252: 3249:Subfossil Lemurs 3243: 3234: 3225: 3216: 3207: 3198: 3189: 3158: 3146: 3121: 3084: 3055: 3045: 3035: 3000: 2988: 2963:(7): 1376–1386. 2951: 2930: 2920: 2910: 2877: 2851: 2837: 2827: 2817: 2800:(4): 1159–1164. 2784: 2766: 2741: 2710: 2698: 2650:Literature cited 2644: 2638: 2632: 2626: 2620: 2614: 2608: 2602: 2596: 2590: 2584: 2583:, pp. 1–17. 2578: 2572: 2571:, pp. 1–40. 2566: 2560: 2554: 2548: 2542: 2536: 2530: 2521: 2515: 2509: 2503: 2497: 2491: 2485: 2479: 2473: 2467: 2461: 2455: 2449: 2443: 2434: 2433:, pp. 7–13. 2428: 2422: 2416: 2407: 2401: 2392: 2386: 2377: 2371: 2365: 2359: 2348: 2342: 2333: 2327: 2318: 2312: 2303: 2297: 2284: 2278: 2272: 2266: 2257: 2256:, pp. 3–43. 2251: 2245: 2239: 2233: 2227: 2218: 2217: 2215: 2213: 2190: 2181: 2175: 2166: 2160: 2154: 2148: 2142: 2136: 2125: 2119: 2098: 2092: 2083: 2077: 2071: 2065: 2052: 2046: 2040: 2034: 2017: 2011: 2002: 1999:Poux et al. 2005 1996: 1987: 1981: 1964: 1958: 1931: 1925: 1919: 1913: 1907: 1901: 1895: 1894:, pp. 3–18. 1889: 1862: 1856: 1843: 1837: 1831: 1825: 1810: 1804: 1791: 1785: 1762: 1761: 1759: 1757: 1741: 1735: 1729: 1723: 1717: 1711: 1705: 1699: 1693: 1687: 1681: 1675: 1669: 1663: 1657: 1651: 1645: 1636: 1630: 1624: 1618: 1602: 1580: 1499:female dominance 1495:breeding seasons 1403:subhumid forests 1303:subfossil lemurs 1122:cranial foramina 1108:subfossil lemurs 1033:Archaeolemuridae 996: 951: 944: 924: 904: 884: 876: 785: 763: 756: 734: 723: 713: 712: 412:Late Pleistocene 376:Fayum Depression 21: 6080: 6079: 6075: 6074: 6073: 6071: 6070: 6069: 6050: 6049: 6048: 6036: 6026: 6024: 6012: 6004: 6002: 5997: 5969: 5896:Group selection 5869: 5794: 5698: 5625: 5587:Tempo and modes 5581: 5436: 5340: 5157: 5116: 4992: 4985: 4962:Species complex 4775: 4766:History of life 4742: 4737: 4707: 4702: 4684: 4680:List of species 4663:Subfossil lemur 4646: 4595: 4557: 4552: 4522: 4515: 4492: 4487: 4440: 4435: 4382: 4368: 4346:10.1038/416726a 4323: 4309: 4294: 4245: 4204: 4190: 4175: 4142: 4137: 4084: 4043: 3990: 3976: 3961: 3954: 3913: 3905: 3891: 3865: 3808: 3757: 3716: 3679: 3632: 3627: 3591:Genome Research 3586: 3581: 3567: 3546: 3503: 3495: 3458: 3452: 3435: 3429: 3412: 3406: 3389: 3383: 3366: 3360: 3347: 3333: 3318: 3307: 3298: 3284: 3269: 3255: 3246: 3237: 3228: 3219: 3210: 3201: 3192: 3178: 3163: 3149: 3124: 3087: 3073: 3058: 3005: 2991: 2954: 2948: 2937:Lost Continents 2933: 2880: 2849: 2840: 2787: 2744: 2730: 2719:Primate Anatomy 2715: 2701: 2656: 2652: 2647: 2639: 2635: 2627: 2623: 2615: 2611: 2603: 2599: 2591: 2587: 2579: 2575: 2567: 2563: 2555: 2551: 2543: 2539: 2531: 2524: 2516: 2512: 2504: 2500: 2492: 2488: 2480: 2476: 2468: 2464: 2456: 2452: 2444: 2437: 2429: 2425: 2417: 2410: 2402: 2395: 2387: 2380: 2372: 2368: 2360: 2351: 2343: 2336: 2328: 2321: 2313: 2306: 2298: 2287: 2279: 2275: 2267: 2260: 2252: 2248: 2240: 2236: 2228: 2221: 2211: 2209: 2201:. Nature News. 2192: 2191: 2184: 2176: 2169: 2161: 2157: 2149: 2145: 2137: 2128: 2120: 2101: 2093: 2086: 2078: 2074: 2066: 2055: 2047: 2043: 2035: 2020: 2012: 2005: 1997: 1990: 1982: 1967: 1959: 1934: 1926: 1922: 1914: 1910: 1904:Castresana 2001 1902: 1898: 1892:Tattersall 2006 1890: 1865: 1857: 1846: 1838: 1834: 1826: 1813: 1805: 1794: 1786: 1765: 1755: 1753: 1752:on May 21, 2009 1743: 1742: 1738: 1730: 1726: 1718: 1714: 1710:, p. 4799. 1706: 1702: 1698:, p. 4797. 1694: 1690: 1682: 1678: 1670: 1666: 1658: 1654: 1646: 1639: 1631: 1627: 1619: 1615: 1611: 1606: 1605: 1593:(known then as 1581: 1577: 1572: 1487:encephalization 1395:lowland forests 1339:, occasionally 1286:diademed sifaka 1278: 1276:Subfossil lemur 1272: 1220:cryptic species 1161:arid spiny bush 1089: 1080: 1071: 1062: 1053: 1044: 983: 930:Cheirogaleidae 890:Daubentoniidae 869: 860: 851: 827: 818: 711: 709:Diversification 488:plate tectonics 420: 313:auditory bullae 187:plesiadapiforms 179:molecular clock 136: 28: 23: 22: 15: 12: 11: 5: 6078: 6076: 6068: 6067: 6062: 6052: 6051: 6047: 6046: 6034: 6022: 5999: 5998: 5996: 5995: 5985: 5974: 5971: 5970: 5968: 5967: 5962: 5957: 5952: 5947: 5946: 5945: 5935: 5930: 5925: 5920: 5915: 5914: 5913: 5908: 5903: 5893: 5888: 5883: 5877: 5875: 5871: 5870: 5868: 5867: 5862: 5861: 5860: 5855: 5850: 5849: 5848: 5838: 5833: 5828: 5823: 5818: 5808: 5802: 5800: 5796: 5795: 5793: 5792: 5787: 5782: 5777: 5772: 5767: 5762: 5757: 5752: 5747: 5746: 5745: 5736:Charles Darwin 5733: 5732: 5731: 5719: 5714: 5708: 5706: 5700: 5699: 5697: 5696: 5691: 5686: 5681: 5676: 5674:Non-ecological 5671: 5666: 5661: 5656: 5651: 5646: 5641: 5635: 5633: 5627: 5626: 5624: 5623: 5614: 5605: 5591: 5589: 5583: 5582: 5580: 5579: 5574: 5573: 5572: 5567: 5562: 5557: 5552: 5542: 5537: 5532: 5527: 5522: 5517: 5512: 5507: 5502: 5497: 5492: 5491: 5490: 5480: 5475: 5470: 5465: 5464: 5463: 5458: 5447: 5445: 5438: 5437: 5435: 5434: 5433: 5432: 5427: 5425:nervous system 5422: 5417: 5412: 5404: 5403: 5402: 5397: 5392: 5387: 5382: 5377: 5367: 5362: 5357: 5351: 5349: 5342: 5341: 5339: 5338: 5333: 5328: 5323: 5318: 5317: 5316: 5306: 5305: 5304: 5299: 5298: 5297: 5292: 5282: 5277: 5272: 5267: 5262: 5261: 5260: 5255: 5245: 5235: 5230: 5229: 5228: 5218: 5213: 5208: 5203: 5202: 5201: 5191: 5186: 5185: 5184: 5174: 5168: 5166: 5159: 5158: 5156: 5155: 5150: 5145: 5140: 5135: 5130: 5124: 5122: 5118: 5117: 5115: 5114: 5109: 5104: 5099: 5098: 5097: 5092: 5087: 5077: 5072: 5067: 5062: 5057: 5056: 5055: 5050: 5040: 5035: 5030: 5029: 5028: 5018: 5013: 5008: 5003: 4997: 4995: 4987: 4986: 4984: 4983: 4982: 4981: 4971: 4966: 4965: 4964: 4959: 4949: 4948: 4947: 4937: 4932: 4927: 4925:Origin of life 4922: 4917: 4912: 4910:Microevolution 4907: 4905:Macroevolution 4902: 4897: 4892: 4891: 4890: 4880: 4875: 4870: 4865: 4860: 4855: 4850: 4845: 4843:Common descent 4840: 4839: 4838: 4828: 4823: 4821:Baldwin effect 4818: 4817: 4816: 4811: 4801: 4796: 4791: 4785: 4783: 4777: 4776: 4774: 4773: 4768: 4763: 4758: 4753: 4747: 4744: 4743: 4738: 4736: 4735: 4728: 4721: 4713: 4704: 4703: 4701: 4700: 4689: 4686: 4685: 4683: 4682: 4677: 4670: 4665: 4660: 4654: 4652: 4648: 4647: 4645: 4644: 4639: 4634: 4629: 4624: 4619: 4614: 4612:Cheirogaleidae 4609: 4603: 4601: 4597: 4596: 4594: 4593: 4587: 4581: 4575: 4569: 4562: 4559: 4558: 4553: 4551: 4550: 4543: 4536: 4528: 4521: 4520: 4518:on 2011-07-19. 4485: 4451:(4): 757–773. 4433: 4380: 4379: 4378: 4321: 4307: 4292: 4243: 4202: 4188: 4173: 4153:(5): 719–730. 4135: 4082: 4041: 3988: 3974: 3959: 3957:on 2011-07-23. 3903: 3889: 3863: 3806: 3755: 3729:(1): 171–318. 3714: 3677: 3625: 3597:(3): 489–499. 3579: 3565: 3549:"Introduction" 3544: 3501: 3500: 3499: 3493: 3479:P. tattersalli 3456: 3450: 3433: 3427: 3410: 3404: 3387: 3381: 3364: 3358: 3331: 3316: 3315: 3314: 3305: 3282: 3267: 3266: 3265: 3253: 3244: 3235: 3226: 3217: 3208: 3199: 3176: 3161: 3160: 3159: 3137:(5): 471–480. 3129:, Primates)". 3122: 3096:(6): 446–464. 3085: 3071: 3056: 3003: 3002: 3001: 2952: 2946: 2931: 2878: 2860:(4): 465–471. 2838: 2785: 2757:(8): 853–864. 2742: 2728: 2713: 2712: 2711: 2653: 2651: 2648: 2646: 2645: 2633: 2621: 2609: 2597: 2585: 2573: 2561: 2549: 2537: 2522: 2510: 2498: 2486: 2474: 2462: 2450: 2435: 2423: 2408: 2393: 2378: 2366: 2349: 2334: 2319: 2304: 2285: 2273: 2258: 2246: 2234: 2219: 2182: 2167: 2155: 2143: 2126: 2099: 2084: 2072: 2053: 2041: 2018: 2003: 1988: 1965: 1932: 1920: 1908: 1896: 1863: 1844: 1832: 1811: 1792: 1763: 1736: 1724: 1712: 1700: 1688: 1686:, p. 459. 1676: 1664: 1652: 1637: 1625: 1612: 1610: 1607: 1604: 1603: 1574: 1573: 1571: 1568: 1531:Prolemur simus 1471:hypometabolism 1415:Hauts-Plateaux 1407:montane forest 1399:spiny thickets 1368:Comoro Islands 1364:Eulemur mongoz 1360:mongoose lemur 1356:Eulemur fulvus 1271: 1268: 1252:mate selection 1226:. Studies in 1112: 1111: 1091: 1090: 1086: 1085: 1082: 1081: 1077: 1076: 1073: 1072: 1068: 1067: 1064: 1063: 1059: 1058: 1055: 1054: 1050: 1049: 1046: 1045: 1041: 1040: 1037: 1036: 1028: 1025: 1024: 1021: 1020: 1012: 1009: 1008: 1005: 1004: 999: 994: 992: 989: 988: 985: 984: 980: 979: 976: 975: 967: 964: 963: 960: 959: 954: 949: 947: 942: 940: 937: 936: 933: 932: 927: 922: 920: 917: 916: 913: 912: 910:Lepilemuridae 907: 902: 900: 897: 896: 893: 892: 887: 882: 880: 874: 871: 870: 866: 865: 862: 861: 857: 856: 853: 852: 848: 847: 844: 843: 836: 833: 832: 829: 828: 824: 823: 820: 819: 815: 814: 811: 810: 807:Cheirogaleidae 803: 800: 799: 796: 795: 788: 783: 781: 778: 777: 774: 773: 766: 761: 759: 754: 752: 749: 748: 745: 744: 741:Daubentoniidae 737: 732: 730: 721: 718: 717: 710: 707: 675:Plesiopithecus 623:Comoro Islands 611:island hopping 554:Cheirogaleidae 492:paleontologist 468:Philip Sclater 452:gondwanatheres 419: 416: 410:dating to the 171:supercontinent 165:and the early 135: 132: 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Index

Evolutionary history of lemurs
A mouse lemur perched vertically, up-side-down on a branch, looking down at camera.
Mouse lemurs
Lemurs
primates
Strepsirrhini
Madagascar
basal
Eocene
lorises
pottos
galagos
lorisoids
Fossils
nuclear DNA
rafted
land bridges
island hopping
phylogenetic
aye-aye
clade
niches
extinction
strepsirrhine
lorises
pottos
galagos
ancestral
Middle Cretaceous
Paleocene

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