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1. Chimpanzees and Other Primates (Info Service)
   Provides a list of resources on chimpanzees.

2. Primates (NetVet)

3. Primates (UCMP)
   Provides links descriptions and pictures of each species of primate, including lemurs, sifakas, aye-ayes, pottos, galagos, tarsiers, marmosets, siamangs, tamarins, lorises, lepilemurs, monkeys, gibbons, great apes, and, of course, humans. 3-00  

4. Primates, The 25 Most Threatened (IUCN)
   "Biodiversity hotspots, where 96 percent of the most threatened primates live, are identified by Conservation International as 25 places that cover only 1.4 percent of the Earth's land surface, but claim more than 60 percent of all plant and animal diversity." 5-00

5. Primates in Peril (BBC News)
   Provides an update on the extinction of primates. 5-00

6. Primates - Scientific Classification (Wikipedia.org)
   Describes the classifications of primates. 12-04  

7. Primates

8. Primate Illustrations (UCMP)
   Provides sample illustrations of various primates. 3-00  

9. Primate Conservation (American Society of Primatologists)
   Provides awards and a journal to help improve the survival of endangered primates, such as the chimpanzee. 5-00

10. Chimpanzees

11. Gorillas

12. Orangutans

13. Mirror Neurons Associated with Viewing Behaviors (American Psychological Association)
    "Then Greenfield learned that researchers had found mirror neurons--nerve cells that fire when primates not only produce a goal-directed action but also watch someone else produce the same action--for manual actions (such as grasping) in the F5 brain area in monkeys, a Broca's homologue, and in Broca's area in humans." 12-05.

14. Australopithecus (Mr.Donn.org)
    "About this same time in history, around 3 million years ago, the higher primates, including apes and early man, first appeared. There was a difference between apes and man. Human-like hominids could stand upright. Apes could not. Their hands were different, too. Ape hands were made for climbing and clinging. Early man's hands were jointed differently, which allowed them to not only use tools, but to make tools." 03-06

15. Baboons (A-Z Animals)
    "Baboons are medium sized primates found in Africa, and are best known for their bright behinds!"
    
    "Baboon live together in troops with only one dominant male baboon for every troop. The other up to 50 remaining baboons are females and baby baboons, that are either female or not old enough to survive without the baboon troops help." 01-09

16. -05-21-09 Important Transitional Fossil Found (Time.com)
    "The fossil is so perfectly preserved because Ida probably died quickly and nonviolently; her resting place was an abandoned quarry called the Messel Pit, near Frankfurt."
    
    "The second reason the discovery is so important is its age. Ida — her scientific name is Darwinius masillae — dates to about 47 million years ago, when temperatures were warmer than they are today and when mammals underwent a burst of evolutionary diversification. In particular, that's when primates began splitting off into two branches. One became anthropoids, whose descendants are monkeys, apes and humans. The other turned into prosimians — lemurs and their kin."
    
    "Ida is intriguing because she has some characteristics of both branches, which suggests that she could be a transitional animal that gave rise to the anthropoids and, ultimately, to us." 05-09