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How to use the word primate in a Sentence?

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No primate relative has ever been found at such extreme latitudes, they’re more usually found around the equator in tropical regions. I was able to do a phylogenetic analysis, which helped me understand how the fossils from Ellesmere Island are related to species found in midlatitudes of North America.

Kristen Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

NIH-funded studies that are ongoing right now in both mouse and hamsters confirm the lesser virulence in the animal model. And, studies here at the Vaccine Research Center at NIH, in the nonhuman primate model, are ongoing and will await results of that.

Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Attacks from any privately-owned primate in captivity should be expected because these animals are not living healthy lives where they can express their natural urges and engage in natural behaviors.

Erika Fleury

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The results of our study are surprising, researchers usually assume the primate and human cognitive system to be specifically tuned to detect signals of danger and threat in the environment as a mechanism of survival.

Sascha Frühholz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A lot of primate species... also have the differences of being A, being B, being AB, whether it's a great ape or a new world monkey, it's quite intriguing that the differences have been found or maintained in so many different species.

Laure Segurel

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Because of the similar immune response of [nonhuman primates] and human beings, [nonhuman primate] models are better to evaluate vaccines than other animals.

Chuan Qin

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

What's outstanding about this study is that it represents a unique genera, that it's something that is genuinely new to science, but it also represents the first known human-driven primate extinction that we know of as well.

James Hansford

Found on CNN
5 years ago

[It's] a 45-year-old reference in a primate and there is no evidence that the spinal cord was anastomosed functionally.

Hunt Batjer

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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