Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the mammalian order Primates; primatial: as, primatic characters.
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I think it a conclusion, fully justified by analogy, that, sooner or later, we shall discover the remains of our less specialised primatic ancestors in the strata which have yielded the less specialised equine and canine quadrupeds.
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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