Meanings of lower primates in English

There are almost no satisfactory physiological descriptions of the monkeys, anthropoid apes, or lower primates.

The connection offended some readers who said it played on racist, historical comparisons of blacks to lower primates.

You can also see masses of tourists laughing at the caricature of humans that the lower primates represent.

The human brain is the same kind of brain that lower primates possess; its structure is unique in no general respect.

Ways of using objects as tools which apparently are perfectly natural to the anthropoid apes and to man are rarely employed by the lower primates.