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Subsets are a thing in biology as well. (lemm.ee)
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[-] RandomStickman@kbin.run 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For everyone confused, the term monkey refers to the infraorder Simiiformes. Simians include macaques, marmosets, and yes, great apes like chimps and us. So for decades people are being pedantic about "apes not monkeys" but monkeys/Simians includes apes.

[-] philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 months ago

Real pedants know monkeys aren’t apes, but apes are monkeys.

[-] VelvetGentleman@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

But, but, but MONKEYS ARE APES! More specifically, the monkeys that are apes are apes.

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