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    Monkey is a common name that refers to simians, which include old world monkeys, new world monkeys, and apes. While traditionally apes were excluded, cladistically they are considered monkeys. Monkeys emerged around 35 million years ago and diverged into old world monkeys, new world monkeys, and apes around 25 million years ago. Key traits that distinguish monkeys from other primates are having two teats, a pendulous penis, and lack of sensory whiskers.

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    Monkey is a common name that refers to simians, which include old world monkeys, new world monkeys, and apes. While traditionally apes were excluded, cladistically they are considered monkeys. Monkeys emerged around 35 million years ago and diverged into old world monkeys, new world monkeys, and apes around 25 million years ago. Key traits that distinguish monkeys from other primates are having two teats, a pendulous penis, and lack of sensory whiskers.

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    Monkey is a common name that refers to simians, which include old world monkeys, new world monkeys, and apes. While traditionally apes were excluded, cladistically they are considered monkeys. Monkeys emerged around 35 million years ago and diverged into old world monkeys, new world monkeys, and apes around 25 million years ago. Key traits that distinguish monkeys from other primates are having two teats, a pendulous penis, and lack of sensory whiskers.

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    Monkey

    Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also
    known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted
    as monkeys except the apes, which constitutes an incomplete paraphyletic grouping; however, in
    the broader sense based on cladistics, apes (Hominoidea) are also included, making the terms
    monkeys and simians synonyms in regards to their scope.[3]
    Monkeys
    Temporal range:

    Bonnet macaque Macaca radiata Mangaon, Maharashtra, India

    Scientific classification

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Mammalia

    Order: Primates

    Suborder: Haplorhini

    Infraorder: Simiiformes

    [a]

    Groups included

    Platyrrhini
    Cercopithecidae
    †Parapithecidae
    Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa
    Hominoidea

    In 1812, Geoffroy grouped the apes and the Cercopithecidae group of monkeys together and
    established the name Catarrhini, "Old World monkeys", ("singes de l'Ancien Monde" in
    French).[3][4][5] The extant sister of the Catarrhini in the monkey ("singes") group is the Platyrrhini
    (New World monkeys).[3] Some nine million years before the divergence between the
    Cercopithecidae and the apes,[6] the Platyrrhini emerged within "monkeys" by migration to South
    America from Afro-Arabia (the Old World), [7][8] likely by ocean.[9][10] Apes are thus deep in the
    tree of extant and extinct monkeys, and any of the apes is distinctly closer related to the
    Cercopithecidae than the Platyrrhini are.

    Many monkey species are tree-dwelling (arboreal), although there are species that live primarily
    on the ground, such as baboons. Most species are mainly active during the day (diurnal).
    Monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent, especially the Old World monkeys.

    Within suborder Haplorhini, the simians are a sister group to the tarsiers – the two members
    diverged some 60 million years ago. New World monkeys and catarrhine monkeys emerged
    within the simians roughly 35 million years ago. Old World monkeys and apes emerged within
    the catarrhine monkeys about 25 million years ago. Extinct basal simians such as
    Aegyptopithecus or Parapithecus (35–32 million years ago) are also considered monkeys by
    primatologists.[11][9][12][13][14][15]

    Lemurs, lorises, and galagos are not monkeys, but strepsirrhine primates (suborder
    Strepsirrhini). The simians' sister group, the tarsiers, are also haplorhine primates; however, they
    are also not monkeys.

    Apes emerged within monkeys as sister of the Cercopithecidae in the Catarrhini, so cladistically
    they are monkeys as well. However, there has been resistance to directly designate apes (and
    thus humans) as monkeys, so "Old World monkey" may be taken to mean either the
    Cercopithecoidea (not including apes) or the Catarrhini (including
    apes).[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] That apes are monkeys was already realized by Georges-Louis
    Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in the 18th century.[25] Linnaeus placed this group in 1758 together
    with the tarsiers, in a single genus "Simia" (sans Homo), an ensemble now recognised as the
    Haplorhini.[26]

    Monkeys, including apes, can be distinguished from other primates by having only two pectoral
    nipples, a pendulous penis, and a lack of sensory whiskers.[27]
    Historical and modern terminology

    Description

    Classification

    Relationship with humans

    See also

    Notes

    References

    Literature cited

    Further reading

    Retrieved from
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
    title=Monkey&oldid=1124692437"

    Last edited 9 days ago by WealthyWalrus

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