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From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Bats by a Mile
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Date: 23 May 91 17:49:14 GMT
References: <1991May17.044756.26698@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <82025@bu.edu>
Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <82025@bu.edu> pamela@bu-bio.UUCP (Pamela Hall) writes:
<  At some point in
<the not too distant past (maybe 2-3 years ago, in Science) researchers
<concluded that the Megachiroptera species were actually more closely
<related to Primates than to Microchiropteran bats!  How about that, true
<flying primates!!!

I too have heard this hypothesis.  My impression is that it is still quite
controversial, and is far from universally accepted.

Given the anatomical *similarities* between the two groups of bats,
this concept will require a great deal of evidence to become established.
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uunet!tdatirv!sarima				(Stanley Friesen)