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IN his letter to NATURE of Jan. 25, Dr. Tate Regan uses the researches of my colleague, Mr. Thornton Carter, as an argument against the validity of the classification of the Primates adopted by Prof. J. P. Hill and myself. In particular, he hints at the possibility of a complete dissociation of the Platyrrhine and Catarrhine monkeys, and their diphyletic origin respectively in America from Tarsioids and in Africa from Lemuroids.
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SMITH, G. The Classification of the Primates. Nature 125, 270–271 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125270a0
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