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• Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Monkeys are a social construct. Like trees.

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    • lemonmelon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      …I am so sorry

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    • Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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      • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Simiiformes is a clear and distinct clade.

        Yes but who says that specific clade maps to the colloquial taxonomic word “monkey”?

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  • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Monkeys are specifically non-ape simians.

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• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We’re all apes

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  • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And apes are monkeys

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• pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you go back far enough they do.

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