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Within suborder Haplorhini, the simians are a sister group to the tarsiers –
the two members diverged some 70 million years ago.[11] New World
monkeys and catarrhine monkeys emerged within the simians roughly 35
million years ago. Old World monkeys and apes emerged within the
catarrhine monkeys about 25 million years ago. Extinct basal simians such
as Aegyptopithecus or Parapithecus (35–32 million years ago) are also
considered monkeys by primatologists.[12][9][13][14][15][16]
Lemurs, lorises, and galagos are not monkeys, but strepsirrhine primates
(suborder Strepsirrhini). The simians' sister group, the tarsiers, are also
haplorhine primates; however, they are also not monkeys.