primates

primates

Order of the class mammalia that includes the living prosimians, tarsiers, new world monkeys, old world monkeys, lesser apes, great apes, and humans.

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primate

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Antropoide.

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Archaeology; Human evolution

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Archaeology; Human evolution

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osteology is the branch of medicine studying bones, from the Greek ''ostoun''=bone

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