SCIENCE
ZOOLOGY
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Question
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Hominid
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Primate
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Mammal
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Reptile
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Detailed explanation-1: -ONLY primates have binocular vision and grasping hands/feet with opposable thumbs.] The first primates are often called “prosimians” or “before monkeys". Only a few prosimians survive today–lemurs, tarsiers and lorises.
Detailed explanation-2: -Humans, apes, and monkeys are primates. Almost all primates have opposable thumbs and binocular vision.
Detailed explanation-3: -Primates with fully opposable thumbs include the Great apes (humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans) and Old World monkeys (those native to Asia and Africa) such as baboons and Colobus monkeys. A fourth group of monkeys have comparatively long opposable thumbs.
Detailed explanation-4: -Other animals with opposable thumbs include gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and other variants of apes; certain frogs, koalas, pandas, possums and opossums, and many birds have an opposable digit of some sort.
Detailed explanation-5: -primate, in zoology, any mammal of the group that includes the lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans.