EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -primate, in zoology, any mammal of the group that includes the lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans.

Detailed explanation-2: -Monkeys and apes are both primates, which means they’re both part of the human family tree.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lemurs are primates, an order that includes monkeys, apes and humans. There are approximately 32 different types of lemurs in existence today, all of which are endemic to Madagascar; a single island country off the southeast coast of Africa.

Detailed explanation-4: -They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys, including apes and humans).

Detailed explanation-5: -Living Primates Humans are primates–a diverse group that includes some 200 species. Monkeys, lemurs and apes are our cousins, and we all have evolved from a common ancestor over the last 60 million years. Because primates are related, they are genetically similar.