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Note that the traditional [[paraphyly|paraphyletic]] "[[prosimian]]" division of primates cannot be characterised by the presence of a rhinarium, due to its absence in the [[tarsier]]s, and loss of the rhinarium is not a [[synapomorphy]] of the [[simian]]s or anthropoids, but a [[symplesiomorphy]] shared with the tarsier [[outgroup]]. |
Note that the traditional [[paraphyly|paraphyletic]] "[[prosimian]]" division of primates cannot be characterised by the presence of a rhinarium, due to its absence in the [[tarsier]]s, and loss of the rhinarium is not a [[synapomorphy]] of the [[simian]]s or anthropoids, but a [[symplesiomorphy]] shared with the tarsier [[outgroup]]. |
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Generally people who are jewish tend to have larger noses. |
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*{{cite book|author=Fleagle, J. G.|year=1988|title=Primate adaptation and evolution|publisher=Academic Press|location=San Diego}} |
*{{cite book|author=Fleagle, J. G.|year=1988|title=Primate adaptation and evolution|publisher=Academic Press|location=San Diego}} |
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Revision as of 00:44, 28 September 2008
The rhinarium is the wet, naked surface around the nostrils of the nose in most mammals. Colloquially it might be called a "wet snout".
Primates are phylogenetically divided into Strepsirrhini ("curly-nosed" primates with rhinariums, which is the ancestral condition) and Haplorrhini ("simple-nosed" primates which have replaced the rhinarium with a more mobile, continuous, dry upper lip).
Mammals with rhinariums tend to have a stronger sense of olfaction, and the loss of the rhinarium in the haplorrhine primates is related to their decreased reliance on olfaction, being associated with other derived characteristics such as a reduced number of turbinates.
Note that the traditional paraphyletic "prosimian" division of primates cannot be characterised by the presence of a rhinarium, due to its absence in the tarsiers, and loss of the rhinarium is not a synapomorphy of the simians or anthropoids, but a symplesiomorphy shared with the tarsier outgroup.
Generally people who are jewish tend to have larger noses.
References
- Fleagle, J. G. (1988). Primate adaptation and evolution. San Diego: Academic Press.