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Humans?

Why are there no pictures of humans in this article? By reading the article one could easily get the idea that humans somehow are not monkeys, which is false. In fact it's probably the most common species of monkey there is. Aaker (talk) 19:22, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification needed

Paragraph 2 says

Hominoid apes (consisting of gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans), which all lack tails, are also catarrhines but are not considered monkeys,[citation needed] although often they or their ancestors are (which cladistically automatically implies homonoids are as well).

Part of this can be cut down to

Hominoid apes ... are not considered monkeys, ... although often they ... are.

Someone familiar with the subject matter might want to split this run-on sentence and also remove the self-contradiction. Thanks in advance. Loraof (talk) 00:01, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The sentence could be improved, but it's not a contradiction. It refers to two different sense of the word "monkey". The popular sense, and hence the most common, contrasts "monkeys" with "apes". The cladistic sense, which is less common in popular writing but increasingly common (although not universal) in scientific writing, includes "apes" within "monkeys". Peter coxhead (talk) 06:57, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

monkeys brains and why they are special

     the monkeys brain is said to be very unique as in the brain was used as a medicine to cancer and other various medicines. it is said that monkeys have tiny brains and are shifty low lifes that have devoted there lives to find ing out who killed jfk and other ancient people and relics but there main perpose it to kill all humans and eliminate human kind they have a dream like martin luther king to be counted as human and not as dumb monkey that dont understand how to speak any languages and love star wars. my favorite kind of monkey looks like this.↓↓↓↓↓  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.179.161.0 (talk) 21:19, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Monkeys are a very lovable creature. AnneKite (talk) 02:10, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Generalization — IVORK _Discuss 02:23, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]