The platyrrhine and catarrhine monkeys have their primitive ancestor among extinct forms of the Lemuridae.
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We may thus ascend to the Lemuridae; and the interval is not very wide from these to the Simiadae.
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The blood of the Lemuridae (Nuttall) gives no reaction or an extremely weak one, that of the other mammals none whatever.
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LEMURIDAE.- Agroupof four-handed animals, distinct from the monkeys and approaching the insectivorous quadrupeds in some of their characters and habits.