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There are two extant families: Hominidae, the "great apes"; and Hylobatidae, the gibbons, or "lesser apes". Main article: Hominoidea The phylogenetic split of the superfamily Hominoidea (apes) into the Hylobatidae (gibbons) and Hominidae (great apes) families (also dubbed "gibbon–human last common ancestor", GHLCA [ by whom? ] ) is dated to ...
Also called the lesser apes, gibbons differ from the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans) in being smaller, exhibiting low sexual dimorphism, and not making nests. [5] Like all of the apes, gibbons are tailless. Unlike most of the great apes, gibbons frequently form long-term pair bonds.
This list of fictional primates is a subsidiary to the list of fictional animals. The list is restricted to notable non- human primate characters from the world of fiction including chimpanzees , gorillas , orangutans , monkeys , lemurs , and other primates .
The "great apes" in Pongidae: The 1960s saw the methodologies of molecular biology applied to primate taxonomy. Goodman's 1964 immunological study of serum proteins led to re-classifying the hominoids into three families: the humans in Hominidae; the great apes in Pongidae; and the "lesser apes" (gibbons) in Hylobatidae. [33]
The order Primates consists of 505 extant species belonging to 81 genera. This does not include hybrid species or extinct prehistoric species. Modern molecular studies indicate that the 81 genera can be grouped into 16 families; these families are divided between two named suborders and are grouped in those suborders into named clades, and some of these families are subdivided into named ...
This is a list of fictional primates in animation, and is a subsidiary to the list of fictional primates. Non-tailed primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans are included in the apes section. Tailed primates such as monkeys, baboons, aye-ayes and marmosets are included in the Monkeys section.
Moirai – Lesser trio of female deities assigned with deciding and weaving the fates of humans. Usually called the Fates, this is a pan European concept, with the Roman Parcae, the Scandinavian Norns, the Anglo-Germanic Wyrd Sisters, the Bulgarian Orisnizi and Slavic Rozhanitsy easily identifiable.
Family Hylobatidae: gibbons or "lesser apes" (20 species) Family Hominidae: great apes, including humans (8 species) Order Primates was established by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, in the tenth edition of his book Systema Naturae, [19] for the genera Homo (humans), Simia (other apes and monkeys), Lemur (prosimians) and Vespertilio (bats).