title: Evidence from earliest known erinaceomorph basicranium that insectivorans and primates are not closely related.
abstract: The erinaceomorph insectivorans, which include the living hedgehog and a diversity of archaic taxa, have long been considered to be close relatives or direct ancestors of primates and a variety of other placental mammal orders. We report here on the oldest known erinaceomorph basicranium which provides new evidence against the view that primates and erinaceomorphs share a close common ancestry.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002508:Cephalometry; D003817:Dentition / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D007312:Eulipotyphla / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D010161:Paleodontology; D010163:Paleontology; D011323:Primates / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology*