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  • noun Any animal that is not a primate

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Examples

  • They are marsupials and one of the few nonprimate species with unique fingerprints, just like humans.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • They are marsupials and one of the few nonprimate species with unique fingerprints, just like humans.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • They are marsupials and one of the few nonprimate species with unique fingerprints, just like humans.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • They are marsupials and one of the few nonprimate species with unique fingerprints, just like humans.

    ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010

  • Among primate and nonprimate species, the degree of polygyny highly correlates with the degree to which males of a species are larger than females.

    Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature | Impact Lab 2007

  • If some of our reads were human DNA, then these reads should align with nearly 100% identity to human, and at most, 5% of these could be expected to align at 90% identity or higher to any nonprimate mammalian genome (only about 5 to 6% of the genome appears to be under negative selection (23), and our 90% threshold is far above the neutral level).

    On the Other Hand - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • (It's one of the few nonprimate species to create and even modify tools.)

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • (It's one of the few nonprimate species to create and even modify tools.)

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Zoo Doo: It's time for the spring Zoo Doo lottery, courtesy of Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo, which sells its popular Zoo Doo compost made from the feces of 26 nonprimate herbivores at the zoo, plus its Bedspread, a composted mulch similar to Zoo Doo made with more wood chips and sawdust.

    HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News 2010

  • The color vision of humans and some other primates differs from that of nonprimate mammals.

    Scientific American 2009

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