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nounan animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
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- monkey any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
- ape any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
- primate any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
- ebola a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding; can be spread from person to person; is largely limited to Africa
- carpal any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates
- family lorisidae slow-moving omnivorous nocturnal primates of tropical Asia; usually tailless
- order scandentia a small order comprising only the tree shrews: in some classifications tree shrews are considered either primates (and included in the suborder Prosimii) or true insectivores (and included in the order Insectivora)
- robert mearns yerkes United States psychologist who studied the intelligence of primates (1876-1956)
- genus proconsul genus of extinct primitive African primates of the Miocene epoch; sometimes considered a subgenus of Dryopithecus
- adapid extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins