Tarsier Genome Decoded (IMAGE)

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Tarsier Genome Decoded

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Tarsiers -- tiny, carnivorous primates -- are our distant cousins, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who sequenced and analyzed the tarsier genome. Their findings place tarsiers on the branch of the primate evolutionary tree that also leads to monkeys, great apes and humans.

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