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PRIMATE TAXONOMY
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Anthropology
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02/23/2004
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Term
ORDER
 Definition
primate
Term
SUBORDER
 Definition
anthropoidea (monkeys, apes and humans)
Term
INFRAORDER
 Definition
catarrhini (all old world monkeys, apes and humans)
Term
platyyrrhini
 Definition
all new world (small) monkeys
Term
SUPERFAMILY
 Definition
hominodea (apes and humans)
Term
caropithecoidea
 Definition
all old world monkeys
Term
FAMILY
 Definition
hominidae (humans and human ancestors)
Term
murquis
 Definition
of the family ATELIDAE, able to use tail for locomotion; an old world monkey
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