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A fact from Tarsiiformes appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 November 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that disagreements over the classification of fossil primates within the infraorder Tarsiiformes lie at the heart of the debate over early primate evolution and the origins of "higher primates"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/November.

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Is the placement of Tarsiiformes within suborder Haplorhini really still debated?

The article says: "Even the placement of Tarsiiformes within suborder Haplorhini (with the monkeys and apes") is still debated.[2][8]"

The references [2] and [8] are from 2002 and 2007 respectively.

Is the placement really still being debated? It might have been in 2002 before the full-genome sequencing of relevant Haplorhini species.

For example, this Nature article shows the molecular evidence proving that "...tarsiers are clearly the sister group to anthropoids in the clade Haplorrhini."

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep01756

I would remove the aforementioned sentence from the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.113.26.74 (talk) 17:29, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]