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- noun Plural form of
cercopithecoid .
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Up to now, genome-based analysis put the split between hominoids - which includes apes and humans - and cercopithecoids, or so-called Old World monkeys, at 35 to 30 million years ago.
Dose.ca Music briefs AFP Marlowe Hood 2010
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‘Monkey’ is itself a loose term used for those members of Anthropoidea that aren’t hominoids, and here we’re only interested in the Old World monkeys (cercopithecoids).
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Pet peeve no. 375 is the fact that people think that apes evolved from monkeys (they didn’t: hominoids and cercopithecoids are sister-taxa within the anthropoid clade Catarrhini*), and that apes are therefore somehow superior to monkeys in morphology and adaptability.
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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