T/F Using discrete anatomical traits and data from paleontology and genetics (biomolecular studies), today we place lemurs, lorises, and galagos into the Suborder Strepsirhini and we place tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans into the Suborder Haplorhini. In the past, researchers used continuous behavioral data to align tarsiers with lemurs, lorises, and galagos in the Suborder Prosimii and the rest of the primates (monkeys, apes, and humans) were separated into the Suborder Anthropoidea. We no longer use this classification because it fails to recognize that anatomically, paleontologically, and genetically, the tarsiers are more closely related to monkeys, apes, and humans than they are to lemurs, lorises, and galagos!

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