Apes are our cousins and primate relatives.
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Primate
/ˈpɹaɪmeɪt/
Synonyms for "primate" (161 found)
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iron age manlangurlemurmacaquemammalmammalianmanman of oldmandrillmarmosetmarsupialmarsupialianmetropolitanmissing linkmonkeymountain gorillaneanderthal manneolithic manold hatold-fashioned
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old-timeyoldfangledomnivoreorangorangutanoreopithecusout of fashionout of seasonout-of-dateoutdatedoutmodedpapaparanthropuspatriarchpeking manpenitentiarypithecanthropusplesianthropuspontiffpopepreadamiteprebendaryprehistoric manprehumanprelateprimitiveproboscis monkeyprotohumanquadrupedrectorreptilerhesusrhodesian manrodentruminantrural deansakiscavengersinanthropusstone age manstylelesssubdeansuffraganswanscombe mantroglodyteunfashionableungulatevarmintverminvertebratevicarzinjanthropus
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Madame Berthe's mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world.
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According to Tom, the theory of evolution by random mutations and natural selection is not convincing for several reasons, the most important of which is the existence of DNA. Among other unacceptable points, Tom adds, this theory claims that the human mind – Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Shakespeare, Descartes, Da Vinci, Mozart, Einstein, Darwin himself – evolved from the mind of an unidentified primate, which would be our ancestor.
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At Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute, a chimpanzee is performing a task that is impossible for a person to do, revealing how chimp cognition can mirror—and in some cases surpass—the capabilities of the human brain.
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