Posted: Jul 31, 2017 4:37 pm
zoon wrote:Thomas Eshuis wrote:It's also a bit of a language thing.
Dutch doesn't have seperate words for monkeys and apes. Neither does German if I am not mistaken.
They're both called 'aap' similar to ape.
I think AronRa would argue that "aap" really ought to include humans, on the grounds that otherwise it refers to a biological group which doesn't follow modern taxonomy because it's not a clade.
My point was that the dutch language doesn't distinguish between monkeys and apes.
Not that it distinguishes between apes and humans.