Usage of "Primates" | TermGallery

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primatas

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primats

An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings.

order Primates

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Examples for "order Primates"

order Primates

Examples for "order Primates"

Our zoölogical classifications depend upon anatomical characteristics; and anatomically man belongs among the order primates. 
 The Whence and the Whither of Man / A Brief History of His Origi... 

Personally, I do consider higher- order primates to be people. 
 Wired 

Man is, at present, classified under the order primates, along with tree shrews, lemurs, lorises, monkeys, and apes. 
 The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever 

In fact, no group surpasses them save the Order Primates, and it requires the enrollment of all the apes, baboons and monkeys to accomplish it. 
 The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observ... 

Usage of Primates in English

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gestures … a chimpanzee from episode one of Primates. 
 The Guardian 

In Primates, we see conservation groups habituating such domesticated primates to the wild. 
 The Guardian 

Photograph: BBC Primates also gives us mere humans valuable life tips. 
 The Guardian 

However that may be, the Ice-Age would restrict all the Primates to the south. 
 The Story of Evolution 

The generally arboreal character of the Primates justifies this conclusion. 
 The Story of Evolution 

The observation has been published in the journal Neotropical Primates. 
 BBC 

As to the second question: Whence the Primates sprang, the answer must be more conjectural. 
 The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) / A Plain Story Simply Tol... 

But we can linger no longer with the Primates. 
 The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observ... 

The incident has been outlined in the journal Primates. 
 BBC 

We're joined by Harmony Neale their Head of Primates. 
 Radio NZ 

Even the earliest Primates show large brains in comparison with the small brains of their contemporaries. 
 The Story of Evolution 

Hence the origin of the Primates is obscure. 
 The Story of Evolution 

One sequence in Primates makes this point eloquently. 
 The Guardian 

They described their discovery in the journal Primates. 
 BBC 

A total of 38 Primates will attend the meeting at the Dromantine conference centre near Newry. 
 The Irish Times 

In North America the Primates soon became extinct, and the same thing happened later on in Europe. 
 The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) / A Plain Story Simply Tol... 