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The Relationships, Origin and Dispersal of the Hystricognathous Rodents

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Evolutionary Relationships among Rodents

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My topic — the relationships, origin and dispersal of hystricognathous rodents — is complicated by a very considerable amount of confusion among authors as to what should be included in the Suborder Hystricognathi. This confusion results, at least in part, from the fact that simplicity of arrangment of taxa has a great appeal, but that simplicity of arrangement does not necessarily reflect either what must have been the facts of the evolution of rodents, or our less than perfect knowledge of these facts.

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Wood, A.E. (1985). The Relationships, Origin and Dispersal of the Hystricognathous Rodents. In: Luckett, W.P., Hartenberger, JL. (eds) Evolutionary Relationships among Rodents. NATO Advanced Science Institutes (ASI) Series, vol 92. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0539-0_18

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