Re: Gondwana Split Sorts Out Mammalian Evolution

["Steve Brusatte" <dinoland@lycos.com>]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:38:06  
 Richard W Travsky wrote:
 "Furthermore, our study provides the first convincing molecular
>evidence that flying lemurs and tree shrews are the closest relatives to
>primates."

This has been well-known for awhile, but it is nice to see a new, "convincing" 
study to lend more support.  

Does anyone know if the authors included chiropterans in their study?  Many 
analyses place chiropterans close to primates, but others seem to place them 
quite a bit away.  

Steve

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