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- noun Any of a group of
extinct primate of the infraorder Adapiformes
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Examples
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The fossil is nice because it is so complete, but it is a rather vanilla-flavored adapiform that does not differ appreciably from other members of that well-known group of Eocene primates …
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The authors of the new paper argue that Darwinius is an adapiform, but it also has traits that link it with anthropoids.
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Darwinius in the original paper I cannot help but wonder how Hurum and his colleagues can conceivably cast the adapiform as one of our close fossil relatives.
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This hypothesis was refuted several months later when an independent team of researchers described another 37 million year old adapiform they named
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Darwinius to living and fossil haplorhines, the undisputed positive evidence that it is an adapiform, and the detailed evidence that adapiforms are stem strepsirrhines, suggests that
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As recognized by the scientists who described it, Darwinius was an adapiform primate which belonged to a now-extinct group of lemur-like species.
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Convergent evolution of anthropoid-like adaptations in Eocene adapiform primates
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In that tree, adapiform primates like Darwinius and Afradapis are not placed close to higher primates, but rather are situated as closer relatives of the living lemurs and lorises. "
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