"primitive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Notharctidae is an extinct family of primitive primates.
- Lemurs are the most primitive primates known and are commonly found in Madagascar.
- Until recently they were thought to be primitive primates but now science has put them firmly among the insectivores.
- (Right) Another primitive primate, the slow loris, occupies much the same habitat as the tarsier.
- I/We do not understand why these odd, primitive primates should be studied at all.
- Before the true rodents developed, the primitive primates occupied that niche.
- Indeed, there has been a tendency to consider modern tree shrews the most primitive primates rather than the most advanced insectivores.
- According to the hypothesis of character change in euarchontan evolution, Purgatorius is a primitive primate.
- Humans and monkeys are both descendants of primitive primates that lived 20 million to 30 million years ago.
- Strepsirrhines are often inappropriately referred to as "living fossils" or "primitive primates".
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