Anthropoidea

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Anthropoidea - monkeys; apes; hominids

suborder Anthropoidea

animal order - the order of animals

order Primates, Primates - an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings

anthropoid ape - any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae

Hominoidea, superfamily Hominoidea - anthropoid apes and human beings

family Hominidae, Hominidae - modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man

family Pongidae, Pongidae - usually considered as comprising orangutans; gorillas; chimpanzees; and sometimes gibbons

family Hylobatidae, Hylobatidae - used in some classifications for the lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs); sometimes considered a subfamily of Pongidae

Cercopithecidae, family Cercopithecidae - Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey

Platyrrhini, superfamily Platyrrhini - New World monkeys: capuchin; douroucouli; howler monkey; saki; spider monkey; squirrel monkey; titi; uakari; woolly monkey; marmoset; tamarin

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Allometric and functional influences on primate orbit orientation and the origins of the Anthropoidea. J.

A Gross Morphometric Study of Olfactory Brain Components in the Rufous Sengi (Elephantulus rufescens)/Estudio Morfometrico de los Componentes Olfativo del Cerebro en el Rufo Sengi (Elephantulus rufescens)

Vassilacopoulou et al., "The BC200 RNA gene and its neural expression are conserved in Anthropoidea (Primates)," Journal of Molecular Evolution, vol.

The rs13388259 Intergenic Polymorphism in the Genomic Context of the BCYRN1 Gene Is Associated with Parkinson's Disease in the Hungarian Population

Remarks: Hoffstetter (1974) proposed Simiiformes as a replacement name for Anthropoidea, apparently on the basis of insufficient grounds (Delson, 1977), although it has several advantages such as avoiding the standard superfamily ending in -oidea for a taxon above the family-group level (see Delson, 1977, and Hoffstetter, 1982, for further details).