Experimental Ebola drug cured 100% of monkeys tested

Re:Experimental Ebola drug cured 100% of monkeys tested by cocolos on Saturday August 30, 2014 @09:06PM (#8248095)

Last I checked I thought we were more closely related to primates not monkeys--not sure if that's of any significance.

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Re:Experimental Ebola drug cured 100% of monkeys tested by tejon on Saturday August 30, 2014 @09:13PM (#8248107)

Monkeys are primates.

Oh, let's see if I can remember the main groupings...

Primates ->

> Lower Primates ->

> > Tarsiers

> > Aye-Ayes

> > Lorises

> Lemurs & Red Pandas

> Simians ->

> > New World Monkeys

> > Old World Monkeys

> Hominoids ->

> > Gibbons & Siamangs

> > Great Apes ->

> > > Orangutans

> > > Gorillas

> > > Chimpanzees ->

> > > > Chimpanzee

> > > > Bonobo

> > > > Humans

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Re:Experimental Ebola drug cured 100% of monkeys tested by Crito on Saturday August 30, 2014 @10:03PM (#8248209)

Wiki has humans and chimpanzees/bonobos in different subtribes, so humans wouldn't be under "Chimpanzees ->":

  Tribe Hominini
   Subtribe Panina
    Genus Pan
     Chimpanzee (common chimpanzee), Pan troglodytes
      Central chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes troglodytes
      Western chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes verus
      Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes ellioti
      Eastern chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii
     Bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee), Pan paniscus
   Subtribe Hominina
    Genus Homo
     Human, Homo sapiens
      Anatomically modern human, Homo sapiens sapiens

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Re:Experimental Ebola drug cured 100% of monkeys tested by tejon on Saturday August 30, 2014 @10:54PM (#8248312)

Yeah, it's not the mainstream classification but it's been proposed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Chimpanzee) and I find it entertaining. So. ;)

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Re:Experimental Ebola drug cured 100% of monkeys tested by lotsofmangos on Sunday August 31, 2014 @07:22AM (#8249039)

I particularly like Pans Narrans as a classification.

Though I suspect that Pans Superbia might be unfortunately closer to the mark.

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Re:Experimental Ebola drug cured 100% of monkeys tested by i80and on Saturday August 30, 2014 @09:09PM (#8248101)

Apes, I think you mean; both apes and monkeys are primates.

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