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A DETAILED study of feeding behaviour and tooth use has been made in four extant primates, Tupaia, Galago, Saimiri, and Ateles, using a combination of cinefluorography and occlusal analysis. These primates were chosen because they form a structural series: a parallel series of fossil primates, Palenochtha, Pelycodus and Aegyptopithecus has also been studied.
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HIIEMAE, K., KAY, R. Trends in the Evolution of Primate Mastication. Nature 240, 486–487 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/240486a0
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