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raframyesterday at 7:09 PM1 replyview on HN

That article seems to say that the standard definition of "monkey" does not include apes, and thus humans.


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technothrasheryesterday at 8:58 PM

It doesn't just seem to say it, it says it explicitly: "monkeys are, in terms of currently recognized taxa, non-hominoid simians". Perhaps the accepted terminology may change at some point, but currently apes are not monkeys.