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Old 10-03-2010, 08:15 PM   #429
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Okay. I decided to check with relatives. I could be misremembering. The relative suggested I checked the Smithsonian's web site.

So, I did.


From the Smithsonian/National Zoo:

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publicatio...imatethink.cfm

Scientists are hotly debating these questions, but one thing is clear: differences between humans and other primates arent as black and white as once was thought. Intelligence appears more a matter of degree, developing gradually throughout the primate lineage rather than sprouting magically when humans first arrived on the scene. Many of the features of our brain that support higher cognitive functions, such as language and mathematicsor at least their precursorsmay well be present in ape and monkey brains, and in the brains of long-extinct relatives like the Australopithecines.


http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Pr...ts/default.cfm

About Primates
There are more 300 species of primates in the world from humans and apes to monkeys and prosimians ("premonkeys"). Several primate species have been discovered in Brazil and Madagascar in recent years.

http://newsdesk.si.edu/factsheets/di...-origins-facts

Modern humans are great apes, one of the major groups on the primate family tree.

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Primates/

About Primates

There are 376 species of primates in the world—from humans and apes to monkeys and prosimians ("premonkeys").

If you read this far, I drop the subject of primates.
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