Glossary

  1. Primates= member of the mammalian order Primates, includes humans, apes, monkeys, and prosimians, or lower primates.

  2. Primatology= the study of primates.

  3. Anthropology= classification and anlysis of humans and their society, descriptively, culturally, historically, and physically.

  4. Vivisection= the practice of subjecting living animals to cutting operations, in order to advance physiological and pathological knowledge.