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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

10,000 Birds

If we assume (probably incorrectly) that of apes and monkeys, they all descended from a monkey like ancestor, than apes are monkeys. In other words, the group of mammals that includes all the monkeys, which is rather large (and not accurately defined because I’ve not said what a “monkey” is … am I including lemurs?)

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Come@Me: If Birds are Dinosaurs I’m a Monkey’s Uncle

10,000 Birds

For example, you could say, “among mammals, only three families include species with a meaningful degree of root eating” or “within the family that includes lemmings and voles, there is a mixture of monogamous and polygynous species” and so on. Monkey is a common, not scientific, term.

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