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Primates
Temporal range: Palaeocene - Recent
Olive baboon.jpg
Olive baboon, an Old World monkey
Scientific classification e
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Grandorder:Euarchonta
Mirorder:Primatomorpha
Order:Primates
Linnaeus, 1758
Ring-tailed lemur, a strepsirrhine primate

Primates are an order of mammals. It includes all lemurs, monkeys and apes, including humans. Most primates (but not humans) are mainly or entirely forest dwellers.

There are about 400 species of primates. All primates are similar to humans in many ways, but language is an important advantage which only humans have. Other primates have a pattern of calls and gestures, but not language as we know it.

Primates have hands with five fingers and flat fingernails (most other animals have claws or hooves). All primates are covered with fur (hair), but in humans the body hair is only noticeable in two places: on the head and around the genitals.

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