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Illustrations of study species: (a) the Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew, Dendrogale murina and (b) the Mindanao treeshrew, Tupaia everetti. Original artwork by Priscilla Barrett, reproduced with permission.
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Treeshrews are small, squirrel-like mammals in the order Scandentia, which is nested together with Primates and Dermoptera in the superordinal group Euarchonta. They are often described as living fossils, and researchers have long turned to treeshrews as a model or ecological analogue for ancestral primates. A comparative study of colour vision-enc...
