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- proper noun obsolete An invalid taxonomic group within the family
Cercopithecidae — a division ofcatarrhine monkeys, including the baboons and other lower monkeys, as distinguished from the anthropoid apes.
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Cynomorpha; and, as regards the Anthropomorpha, nothing but the account of the brain of the Gibbon, near birth, already referred to.
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes Charles Darwin 1845
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