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Tra-Kay Just a heads-up: this book, though I'm not sure to what extent, contains some rather major outdated information.

From Wikipedia: "The prosimians were once considered a suborder of the Primate order (suborder Prosimii - Gr. pro, before, + simia, ape). They have been shown, however, to be paraphyletic - that is, their most recent common ancestor was a prosimian but it has some non-prosimian descendents (i.e. monkeys and apes). The classification is used on a more behavioural term nowadays, due to the lack of a unique last common ancestor."


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