primate
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Apers believe Bigfoot is just a primate unknown to science while Woo-Woos think Bigfoot is some sort of interdimensional traveller - an alien of sort.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Other early primate relatives have been discovered in the southwestern United States, but they date to roughly two million years later – creating a gap in the fossil record that puzzled scientists… until now.
From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026
Despite being much more closely related to mice than to monkeys, squirrel evolution followed the primate playbook.
From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026
Climate change is what philosopher Timothy Morton calls a hyperobject: something that so massively occupies space and time that our puny primate brains have trouble fathoming them.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025
Now, perhaps for the first time, the absolute horror of the crisis at the primate building washed over him.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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