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neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Primates ≠ monkeys

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  • Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If baboons and macaques are monkeys, and if howlermonkeys and spidermonkeys are monkeys, humans MUST be monkeys.

    Because they can ONLY both be monkeys if their common ancestor was also a monkey and we share that very same common ancestor. In fact we are closer related to macaques and baboons than to spidermonkeys.

    Humans are apes, apes are a subgroup of monkeys, monkeys are a subgroub of primates.

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    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Monkeys are a social construct. Like trees.

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      • lemonmelon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If trees aren’t real, how can our birds be real?

        …I am so sorry

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      • Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Simiformes is a clear and distinct clade.

        There is no such thing for trees, because “tree” is a botanical classification, not a cladistical one.

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    • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Monkeys are specifically non-ape simians.

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  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’re all apes

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    • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And apes are monkeys

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  • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you go back far enough they do.

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