"[The] findings show that they are close relatives of primates and colugos -- flying lemurs native to Southeast Asia -- making them fairly close relatives of hu

"[The] findings show that they are close relatives of primates and colugos -- flying lemurs native to Southeast Asia -- making them fairly close relatives of humans." "Two phylogenetic analyses performed to clarify the species' evolutionary relationships confirmed that mixodectids were euarchontans, a group of mammals that consists of treeshrews, primates, and colugos. While one analysis supported that they were archaic primates, the other did not. However, the latter analysis verified that mixodectids are primatomorphans, a group within Euarchonta composed of primates and colugos, but not treeshrews."