alt Hacker NewsAnd before someone comes in to correct: yes, we're monkeys. No, the taxonomists don't know any better! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey
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b00ty4breakfast • yesterday at 8:00 PM
I remember reading or hearing that if we follow taxonomnic rules from the ground up, humans would be classified as hagfish (don't quote me on that, I have a terrible memory)
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That article seems to say that the standard definition of "monkey" does not include apes, and thus humans.