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    • Klear@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Humans are apes, apes are monkeys, paraphyletic groups are bullshit.

      • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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        1 hour ago

        To be entirely fair, apes aren’t monkeys. I don’t think that particular distinction is really all that relevant to the discussion, but technically…

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          24 minutes ago

          Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes. Thus monkeys, in that sense, constitute an incomplete paraphyletic grouping; however, in the broader sense based on cladistics, apes (Hominoidea) are also included, making the terms monkeys and simians synonyms in regard to their scope.