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Sociology
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Sociology

by Yogesh Atal
January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
18h 9m
English
Pearson India
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1. In technical literature, the word ‘ape’ has now been replaced by the word hominoidea. They are considered a branch of the family called Hominoids, which has two sub-classes, namely that of lesser apes or hulobatidae and hominoidea or greater apes. An example of the former is the Gibbon, and of the latter are Chimpanzee, Gorilla, and the Orang-utan. Man (homo sapiens) is also included in this category. The common thing they all share is that they have no tail; anthropologists have also found some tailless species among monkeys. The Hindi word Vanar distinguishes apes from monkeys, who are called Bandar or Kapi. Interestingly, apes or the hominoidea are found only in Africa and Asia, but humans are spread all over the world. They ...

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