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Meanings of order Primates in English

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

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        Usage of order Primates in English
        1
        Our zoölogical classifications depend upon anatomical characteristics; and anatomically man belongs among the order primates.
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        2
        Personally, I do consider higher- order primates to be people.
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        3
        Man is, at present, classified under the order primates, along with tree shrews, lemurs, lorises, monkeys, and apes.
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        4
        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...
        Translations for order Primates
        Portuguese
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        Catalan
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