• gnutrino
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    1 year ago

    We’re not monkeys, we’re apes. Different taxonomic families.

    • lugal@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The group that includes all monkeys and excludes apes is paraphyletic which is avoided in modern taxonomy. Either use it in a way that includes all simians or don’t use it at all. Either way, it’s a higher order than “family”