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Former genus of primates
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simia
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In his Systema Naturae of 1758, Carolus Linnaeus divided the Order Primates into four genera : Homo , Simia , Lemur , and Vespertilio . His Vespertilio included all bats , and has since been moved from Primates to Chiroptera . Homo contained humans, Lemur ...
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Simia \Sim"i*a\, n. [L., an ape; cf. simus flatnosed, snub-nosed, Gr. ???.] (Zo["o]l.) A Linn[ae]an genus of Quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang-outang. ...