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Definition of Primates
Primates
The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.

Related Definitions:
And, It, Mammals, Man, Monkeys, Of, Order, Pitheci, The, Together, With






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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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