Decoding of Tarsier Genome Reveals Ties to Humans
Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 05:01
in Biology & Nature
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 evolutionary branch that leads to monkeys, great apes and humans.