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A comment on An Orangutan Has Some Human Rights, Argentine Court Rules. Parent comment

Re:An Orangutan Has Some Human Rights, Argentine Court Rules by drcube on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @02:03PM (#8789612)
Cladistically, apes are monkeys.
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Re:An Orangutan Has Some Human Rights, Argentine Court Rules by scroy on Thursday December 25, 2014 @01:21AM (#8795624)
I think you mean primates?
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Re:An Orangutan Has Some Human Rights, Argentine Court Rules by drcube on Monday December 29, 2014 @04:48PM (#8811983)
No. Apes (including humans) are more closely related to old world monkeys than new world monkeys are. When you are more closely related to monkeys than other monkeys are, most people would say you are a monkey. Including me.
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