> There's a theory that some bats are also very close to primates !

Most species which have been traditionally held to be "close" to 
others are seen to be about equidistant from any other species when 
looked at from a molecular biology perspective.

Even the recent genome analyses which purport to show that eg mice 
differ very little from men are more probably showing that we have no 
real idea of all the factors which are involved in making one species 
different from another. For sure its more than just genome alone. (And 
such comparisons invariably exclude the "junk" DNA - a definite 
mistake).





        RM 

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