Primates
The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.
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Primates Quotations
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
Angela Carter
Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
Keith Henson
He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.
George G. Simpson
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
Keith Henson
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
Richard Leakey
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
H. Allen Smith
Primates Translations
primates in German is Primaten
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