Sentence examples for be a primate from inspiring English sources
Which is weird, seeing as its supposed to be a primate but has 6 incisors.
Harrison thinks that Rukwapithecus, the claimed ape ancestor, could represent a primate that actually predates the ape-monkey split and that the dental features used to identify it as an ape are "questionable"; and he argues that Nsungwepithecus might not even be a primate, but rather a suiform artiodactyl, a piglike, hoofed animal.
Thomas's arrangement was foreshadowed by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville's 1839 classification; he placed edentates (except the sloth Bradypus, which he considered to be a primate) as a major division, the Maldentés ("poorly toothed").
In 1758, his 10th edition of Systema Naturae listed the genus Lemur with three included species, only one of which is still considered to be a lemur while another is no longer considered to be a primate.
Furthermore, the simian Fribourg-Blanc isolate is closely related to T. p. pertenue strains, suggesting that yaws may be a primate treponematosis rather than a distinctly human disease [3], [7].
We believe that the ultimate model of relevance to human biomedical concerns would be a primate species that exhibits natural torpor/hibernation.
This alternative splicing seems to be a primate-specific event.
"The other guy -- he's a primate for sure".
Some scientists doubted that Eosimias was a primate at all.
Speaking by telephone from Norway, Dr. Hurum recalled: "I realized at first it's a primate.
