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  • Most tellingly, Australia evolved no counterpart to primates, or any creature with primate-like intelligence.

    Coyne: Appearance of Human Intelligence Contingent 2009

  • Netwon also makes reference to a primate-like being referred to as the “Waab” and a single-horned rhinoceros.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • In many locales, bike racks are more rare than Ant1's Sasquash a large, primate-like member of the gourd family, apparently.

    Ineftitude: Getting in Touch with your Inner Lizard BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • In any case, far from fearing these killers in the name of God, the elites almost certainly find their primate-like gibbering an endless source of amusement.

    It's time to stop being nicey nice to dem/pug puppets of the elites who "cartoonize" liberals as irrational extremists. 2008

  • Anyone who actually thinks the Earth (or is it the local group?) is going up in a cloud of Armageddon smoke any day now, necessarily has a primate-like cerebral cortex.

    Sound mathematical models of political dynamics are long overdue 2007

  • Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." paleoanthropologists believe that humans originated from primate-like ancestors in common ancestor.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010

  • Officials said fossas, native to Madagascar, resemble mountain lions but feature primate-like agility and are most closely related to the mongoose.

    Latest News - UPI.com 2010

  • Officials said fossas, native to Madagascar, resemble mountain lions but feature primate-like agility and are most closely related to the mongoose.

    Latest News - UPI.com 2010

  • Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." paleoanthropologists believe that humans originated from primate-like ancestors in common ancestor.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." paleoanthropologists believe that humans originated from primate-like ancestors in common ancestor.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010

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